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Nigeria’s Oil Sector under Military, Civilian Administrations in Perspective
By Gideon Osaka
Nigeria yet again celebrated another Democracy Day on June 12, 2022 with the traditional fanfare that hallmarks the Day notwithstanding the dire political and economic constraints that have bedeviled the country!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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NUPRC Set to Sail Despite Industry Headwinds
By Gideon Osaka
The emergence of the new upstream regulator, the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) from the defunct Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), was one of the biggest and profound upstream!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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Nigeria’s Oil Industry At the Mercy of Oil Thieves, Vandals
By Gideon Osaka
On the faithful night of April 22, 2022, the entire 16 villages of Egbema in the oil-bearing area of Imo State were thrown into mourning over the death of family members in an explosion that rocked the communities.!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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Why Africa Will Not Abandon Fossil Fuels Yet ― APPO Scribe
As the global climate debate gets more intense, reaffirming the reality that the energy industry must decarbonize in order to save the earth from what may eventually become an irreversible catastrophe, meaning also that the!-->!-->!-->…
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Fuel Subsidy Fallout: FG Backs Down, Breaks own Law?
The Nigerian economy is set to suffer for another 18 months under the burden of fuel subsidy going by the postponement of full implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) which provided for the complete removal of subsidy on!-->!-->!-->…
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Make Autogas Available Before Subsidy Removal — Opinion Poll
For some time now, the Federal Government, through both the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, has promised to give Nigerians alternative fuel, Autogas. This alternative!-->!-->!-->…
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NIGERIA: New Regulatory Era For Oil & Gas
By Gideon Osaka
It is no longer news that some far-reaching transformations are currently taking place in the Nigerian oil and gas industry following the commencement of the implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) signed!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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Nigeria’s Under-Production Woes Stall Gains of Oil Price Rebound
The technical problems hampering Nigeria’s oil output have further heightened calls for genuine diversification of the nation’s oil-dependent economy, writes GIDEON OSAKA
On 10th December 2016, non-OPEC oil producing countries and!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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Energy Transition Demands Fresh Agenda for Petroleum Institutes
-By Sopuruchi Onwuka
The highly orchestrated global coalition on climate action to avert looming environmental catastrophe, and the related transition from fossil fuels to low carbon energy logically require the existing courses of!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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BARKINDO: The Nigerian Maestro at OPEC
-By Sopuruchi Onwuka
It would prove difficult to find a Nigerian who has flown the most populous black nation’s national flag in the international arena as high, in the recent years, as the current Secretary General of the Organisation!-->!-->!-->…
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