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-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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-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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-By Gideon Osaka The gains recorded in the oil sector, with the soon-to-be-concluded marginal fields bid round, risk being eroded by the tactics of disgruntled interests to frustrate and discredit the entire exercise, Valuechain…
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-By Teddy Nwanunobi Nigeria is blessed with an abundance of mineral resources but over the years, the country has depended so much on oil. The over reliance of black gold has led to the near abandonment of the development of the other…
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-By Gideon Osaka In November last year when the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Timipre Sylva declared that a subsidy element was still being retained in the pricing of premium motor spirit (PMS) or petrol, analysts…
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-By Gideon Osaka The global oil and gas industry has had a bumpy 2020, having been hit by several challenges – the most significant of which is COVID-19. The impact of the virus was particularly severe on the oil sector than on any…
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-By Gideon Osaka Nigeria’s refining capacity is set to receive a boost with the official commissioning of the 5,000 barrels per day (bpd) Waltersmith Modular refinery and groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion of the refinery.The…
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-By Benjamin Ike Expectations are high that the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) which passed second reading at Senate plenary on October 20, 2020 and subsequently referred to its relevant joint committees, will be given accelerated…
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-By Gideon Osaka Except for the recent threat by organised labour to embark on a strike, the seeming acceptance by Nigerians of the federal government’s decision to remove subsidy on petrol could signal that deregulation of the…
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…as FG raises committee to resolve issue -By Gideon Osaka The recent spike in the exchange rate of the Naira to the dollar induced by the corona virus pandemic and ongoing reforms in Nigeria’s power sector are among factors that are…
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