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By Ese Ufuoma The deaths at Okrika are the latest reminder that Nigeria’s fight against crude theft is far from over. Even as production rises and security improves, illegal tapping continues to put lives, communities and billions…
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By Silverline Ifeanyi Onyeabor On September 3, 2026, Nigeria's Vice President Kashim Shettima and International Energy Agency Executive Director Fatih Birol sat across from each other in the State House in Abuja and signed a Joint…
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Nigeria is spending billions on imported petrol even as its largest refinery operates at full capacity and prepares to double in size. The figures raise a broader question: is Nigeria’s refining revolution moving fast enough? By Ese…
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Professor Omowumi O. Iledare Preamble On October 1, 1960, Nigeria became an independent nation, and I was nine years old. Sixty-six years later, as the country marks another Independence Day and I mark my 75th year, those parallel…
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For NNPC Limited, 2025 was more than another year on the balance sheet. It was a year that tested whether Nigeria’s newly commercialised national energy company could turn reform into measurable value. The numbers tell part of the…
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African Energy Week (AEW) 2026 is more than a conference. It is Africa’s energy marketplace. A meeting point for the governments that control resources, the companies that develop them, the financiers that provide capital and the…
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has earmarked more than 186,000 barrels per day of future crude production to service debt under three structured financing arrangements. According to its newly released 2025 Audited…
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Indigenous oil and gas companies now contribute more than 50 per cent of Nigeria’s crude oil production, the Federal Government has said. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, disclosed…
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Dangote’s planned 700,000-barrel-per-day refinery in Lamu could transform East Africa’s downstream landscape, strengthening regional fuel security at a time of unprecedented disruption to global oil markets Construction…
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Andrew Inglis, Chairman and CEO of Kosmos Energy Andrew Inglis, Chairman and CEO of international energy company Kosmos Energy, has been selected as the winner of the African Energy Week (AEW) 2026’s Mohammed S. Barkindo Lifetime…
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