VANGUARD 17 March 2021 FORMER National Chairman, Traditional Rulers of Oil Minerals Producing Communities of Nigeria, TROMPCON, HM Charles Ayemi-Botu, has advocated appropriation of not less than 25 per cent equity shareholding in the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, for host…
THIS DAY A Milan court yesterday acquitted energy companies, Eni and Royal Dutch Shell, along with some of their past and present managers, including Eni Chief Executive, Claudio Descalzi, in one of the oil industry’s biggest corruption scandals. The judgment…
THE NATION A group, Niger Delta Democratic Union, (NDDU), has approached the Federal High Court, Asaba challenging the federal government decision to declare itself sole owner of $4.2million seized from associates of ex- Governor James Ibori by the British Government.…
THE GUARDIAN Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Col. Dixion Milland Dikio (rtd.), has lamented ex-agitators constant obstruction of the East-West road, which was criminalising the Niger Delta region. Describing the ex-agitators antics as ‘retrogressive and old-fashioned,’ Dikio…
THE VANGUARD Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the integration of artisanal and modular refinery operators into the mainstream oil and gas sector will boost local content in the industry. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja,…
THIS DAY The Senate yesterday summoned the governors of the nine oil-producing states to appear before it to state what they know about the N6.25 billion allegedly spent on COVID-19 palliatives by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) in 2020.…
SAHARA REPORTERS Members of the Polobubo community also known as Tsekelewu in the Warri-North Local Government Area of Delta state have raised the alarm over crude oil spill polluting homes, farmlands, and rivers. According to them, the pollution is a…
THE WILL The Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) 2020 currently at the floor of the National Assembly is proposing that a trust fund, called the ‘Host Community Development Trust Fund’, be set up, where the oil and gas companies also referred…
THE GUARDIAN In the last few years, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has not had good ink in the media. It has been one scandal after another, garnished with rib-cracking drama. When the National Assembly invited the last Interim…
THE VANGUARD From an undesirable position of importing LPG (cooking gas) cylinders, Nigeria is on course to become the world’s largest manufacturer of composite cylinders with the groundbreaking of Rungas ALFA plant performed on Friday by the Minister of State…