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Gas players demand collaborative ecosystem to unlock Nigeria’s full potential
Sopuruchi Onwuka Top brass of Nigeria’s gas players have called on the government to facilitate evolution of a collaborative ecosystem that makes the operating environment congenial for realization of prime national economic aspirations for the gas industry. Eminent panelists at…
WIEN’s Woman Podcast: Engr Omezi speaks on ‘Local Content and Diversity’
Sopuruchi Onwuka The relationship between the highly applauded local content policies in the Nigerian petroleum industry and the resilient voices in the call for gender equity in the energy sector has been made clearer for those who would listen to…
NCDMB pledges support for Yikodeen’s safety footwear production
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board has pledged its full support to ensure that world-class safety boots being manufactured by Yikodeen Company Limited are utilized in-country. Yikodeen inaugurated its expanded safety footwear manufacturing plant in Ejigbo, Lagos State, a…
NCDMB, Dangote to collaborate on Local Content
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemical Company have inaugurated a Joint Technical Committee (JTC) aimed at advancing local content implementation during the operational phase of the 650,000 barrels per day refinery…
Africa posts rising FDIs, suffers low finance access
Sopuruchi Onwuka Latest global trade reports show the incongruity of Africa’s rising foreign direct investments and low access to development finance; highlighting the predicament of world’s least developed countries, especially West Africa, where nations remain consistently remain in search of…
Executive Orders aim to enhance oil industry efficiency _Avuru
Sopuruchi Onwuka The recent executive orders churned out by the federal government are meant to steer the Nigerian upstream petroleum industry into clear pathway towards delivering government’s prime economic aspirations for the energy sector. Chairman of AA Holdings, Mr Austin…
Nigeria’s Aka Nwokedi appointed IGU’s Coordinator
Sopuruchi Onwuka , President of the Nigerian Gas Association (NGA), Mr Aka Nwokedi, has been appointed the African Regional Coordinator of the International Gas Union (IGU), making him one of the few Africans that have taken strategic roles in the…
Africa Energy Bank: Will Nigeria miss another great opportunity?
Sopuruchi Onwuka The delay in the full funding and activation of the highly anticipated African Energy Bank (AEB) clearly falls into pattern with the inability of African countries to muster critical collaborative thrust in pushing collective agenda; it reinvents the…
Clean energy forms 67% of global $3.3 trn energy investments
Sopuruchi Onwuka Despite the deceleration of demand migration from fossil fuels amid supply uncertainties from new energy sources, investors have continued to express strong confidence in the future of green energy which now commands global investment decisions. And China which…
NCDMB, NLNG ramp up HCD training
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited on Wednesday in Port Harcourt inaugurated 140 trainees for an intensive three-month Advanced Nigerian Content Human Capital Development (NC-HCD) Programme for the US$5 billion NLNG…
