Governor Chibuike Amaechi has punctured claims that oil theft is responsible for the shortfall in allocation to states even as he attributed the development to factionalisation in the governors’ forum. Regretting that the federal allocation to his state had plummeted …
Read More »Navy: Crude Oil Theft Witnessed 154% Reduction in Seven Months
The Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral Usman Jubrin, has stated that the efforts being put in place by the Nigerian Navy to tackle crude oil theft, piracy and other acts of criminality in the nation’s oil and maritime …
Read More »Ebola: NNPC Shuts Down Clinic in Lagos
The Management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on recently announced the indefinite shutdown of its clinic in the Muri Okunola area of Victoria Island, Lagos, following a suspected case of Ebola virus on admission at the clinic. It …
Read More »Nigeria Records 34,047 Cases Of Pipeline Breaks
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has disclosed that about 34,047 cases of pipeline vandalism were recorded in parts of the country between 1999 and 2013. Also, about 1.3 million metric tonnes of crude oil was said to have been …
Read More »Exit of A Petro-Icon: Life and Times of Alhaji Rilwanu Lukman
The history of the Petroleum Industry in Nigeria cannot be fully told without recourse to the contributions of one man-Alhaji Rilwanu Lukman. The former Petroleum Minister passed away in Vienna Austria on 21st July 2014, but left his indelible footprints …
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