DAILY POST A militant group, Niger Delta Revolutionary Crusaders (NDRC), has threatened to resume attacks on oil installations in the region. NDRC said it would resume attacks on oil installations due to the three per cent allocated to host communities…
THE NIGERIAN LAWYERS The bill provides that three percent of oil profit should be channeled to the development of host communities. But lawmakers and other stakeholders from the south-south zone had expressed displeasure over the legislation, saying the three percent…
THE GUARDIAN Connected Development (CODE) has cautioned the Federal Government and the National Assembly against restricting host communities’ sense of ownership in the recently passed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), saying doing so will fuel fresh agitations in the region. Its…
THE SUN As reactions continue to greet the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) recently passed by the National Assembly, to allocate only three percent of the oil revenue to the host communities, Akwa Ibom state Governor, Emmanuel Udom has declared that…
PUNCH NEWS The Ijaw National Congress has said it will not be able to guarantee peace in the Niger Delta over the decision of the National Assembly to retain the three per cent proposed for host communities in the harmonised…
VANGUARD NEWS NIGERIA’s general incompetence in managing its diversity has been at play in the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, saga. Thirteen years after the late President Umaru Yar’Adua introduced it as a follow-up to his efforts to douse militancy in…
VANGUARD Ijaw youths, under the aegis of Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, have described the allocation of three and five percents, respectively as an equity stake in the Host Community Trust Fund by the Senate and House of Representatives in the…
VANGUARD THE South-South Study Group has told the leadership of the senate to reverse with immediate effect most of the decisions on the just passed Petroleum Industry Act amendment Bill, describing it as “provocative” bill. The South-South Study Group made…
THE NATION The pan-Ijaw group, the Ijaw National Congress (INC) Worldwide, has rejected the three or five per cent passed by the National Assembly in the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) for Host Communities Development Trust Fund. President, INC, Prof. Benjamin…
THE GUARDIAN The Niger Delta Congress (NDC) has picked holes in the newly passed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), saying it came as “one legislation too many, aimed at purloining the resources of Niger Delta.” In a statement yesterday by its…