Skip to content
Two Nigerian graduate athletes head to US prisons
Two Nigerian rising athletes who are graduating from separate American universities, Emmanuel Ineh and Toluwani Adebaki, would now head to prisons in the United States after they have been indicted in multiple cases of internet financial fraud. A federal district…
UPDC examines housing development imperatives at 25th Anniversary
UPDC Plc, Nigeria’s foremost property development, management and investment company, has explored pathways to solving the various challenges and maximizing opportunities being created in Nigeria’s booming but volatile real estate sector at a summit to mark its 25th Anniversary. Tagged,…
PIA is delivering key investment goals – Sylva
Sopuruchi Onwuka The newly activated Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) is delivering the key objectives of government in providing congenial domestic industry environment for capital importation and attraction of global investments. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, stated…
NASA blasts off huge rocket to moon
NASA’s new moon rocket blasted off on its debut flight with three test dummies aboard early Wednesday, bringing the U.S. a big step closer to putting astronauts back on the lunar surface for the first time since the end of…
Seplat committed to just, affordable energy transition – CEO
Seplat Energy Plc, leading Nigerian energy company listed on the Nigerian Exchange and the London Stock Exchange, says its commitment to a just and affordable energy transition is unwavering. The energy company maintains that its ANOH and upgraded Sapele gas…
Baltic countries pledge to NATO common defense
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia on Tuesday took aim at Russia for the missile strike in Poland that left two dead in the border town of Przewodow, just a few kilometers from Ukraine, and said that NATO territory must be defended…
Africa deserves right to use natural gas reserves – AfDB chief
President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, has strongly canvassed for waivers that would allow African countries to continue exploitation of hydrocarbon resources in fighting energy poverty and riving economic development. Adesina who spoke to journalists at the…
Heroic Idun: The fireworks over Akpo oil lift
Sopuruchi Onwuka After months of hunting, catching and detaining the ocean going crude oil carrier, MT Heroic Idun, swings in legal battle has started in Nigeria while diplomatic dispute is brewing in India where lawmakers are coming under pressure to…
Female capacity offers opportunity for accelerated economic growth __WIEN
The Nigerian economy holds potential to accelerate growth and development by 2025 if women are provided the opportunity to play exactly the same role as men in corporate leadership and economic management in the country. The assertion forms one of…
NLNG N18.4b award: When the Senate kills the environment
Sopuruchi Onwuka The recent decision to impose N18.4 billion penal measure against the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited over pipeline right of way dispute stokes existing concerns among petroleum industry investors about the threat of political interference in the…
