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Month: September 2021

NNPC puts Maiduguri EPP on fast track

Sopuruchi Onwuka Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has declared plans to expedite realization of its emergency power project (EPP) in Maiduguri as model for similar projects in the country. Group Managing Director, Mallam Mele Kyari, who performed the ground breaking…

Cooking Gas: NLNG pulls prices with domestic supply

Sopuruchi Onwuka But for the 35 percent of total liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) also called cooking gas supplied from the liquefaction trains of the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited, the prevailing jumps in the prices of the domestic fuel…

Photo story: Eulogies pour in as Obateru bows out

In what appears to be one of the most superlative performance appraisal reports ever given to any public official leaving office, the retirement of Dr Kennie Obateru from the position of Group General Manager in charge of Group Public Affairs…

CBN launches eNaira ahead of schedule as platform goes live

Sopuruchi Onwuka The federal government has finally launched the much awaited eNaira platform, attracting instant traffic surge as millions of Nigerians pry into the website to explore possibilities of offgrid financial transactions. The eNaira, a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)…

Ford announces $11.4bn investment, 11, 000 jobs in electric vehicle plants

Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports American biggest automobile brand, Ford, has unveiled plans to sink princely $11.4 billion or N5.7 trillion in production of a range of electric vehicle brands that would dominate its products in the next nine years….

Energy Security: Indigenous players tackle regulators as majors leave

Sopuruchi Onwuka Indigenous companies in the country and government regulators in the petroleum sector are yet to find common grounds on how to effectively capture the reins of operations in the industry as multinational players that have dominated the business…

NCDMB saves Nigeria $2bn on NLNG-7 project

Wabote receives African Icon award Sopuruchi Onwuka Localization of contract execution in the ongoing expansion of the processing trains of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited saved Nigeria princely $2.0 billion of N840 billion during the during the bidding…

NCDMB initiates 6th industrial park

Sopuruchi Onwuka The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has activated processes for development of an industrial park in Ondo State, making it the sixth of such facilities to be established across petroleum industry hubs in Niger Delta. According…

Glencore’s Stimler confirms Nigeria’s oil bribery scheme

(As published by Bloomberg) When Anthony Stimler left Glencore Plc in August 2019, he had two big secrets: For a dozen years, he’d paid millions in bribes to African officials and intermediaries. And he was now helping a U.S. Justice…

Sylva commissions NCDMB Research Incubation Centre, launches $50m R&D Fund

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva has commissioned the Technology Incubation and Innovation Center and formally launched the US$50 million Nigerian Content Research and Development Fund, all initiatives of the Nigerian Conten tDevelopment and Monitoring Board…