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As Nigeria’s top presidential contenders jostle for power come 2023, there is cautious optimism that the next political dispensation would engender workable policies to move the energy sector forward, writes Gideon Osaka The…
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By Sopuruchi Onwuka and Gideon Osaka Nigerians and the global energy community were thrown into shock and grief following the death on July 5, 2022 of His Excellency Dr. Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo in Abuja, at the age of 63, just days…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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