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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…
Obiang Gabriel Lima in front line for APPO Sec Gen
Sopuruchi Onwuka Equatorial Guinea’s political elite may be on the verge of expanding its influence in Africa’s petroleum sector, as Obiang Gabriel Lima emerges as a frontrunner for the position of Secretary-General of the African Petroleum Producers Organization (APPO). Lima…
Climate action: Nigeria, APPO want petroleum decarbonization
Sopuruchi Onwuka Global funding for cleaner energy should be used in developing technology for decarbonization of available, affordable and abundantly accessible energy forms instead of driving demand migration to newer, costlier and scarce greener options. The Oracle Today reports that…
APPO retains Nigeria’s Omar Farouk Ibrahim as Secretary General
Sopuruchi Onwuka The Council of Ministers of the African Petroleum Producers Organization (APPO) has extended the tenure of Nigeria’s Omar Farouk Ibrahim as the Secretary General of the body which coordinated energy policies and programmes for socio-economic development of the…
Nigeria’s Omar Farouk joins WEC board
Sopuruchi Onwuka Nigeria’s rising energy diplomat, Dr Omar Farouk Ibrahim, has been elected into the board of the World Energy Council, representing Africa in the world’s oldest independent and impartial membership-based energy organization. Dr Farouk’s election enriches the council’s board…
