This Day (Lagos)
4 November 2009
The current situation where there is "induced scarcity" inspite of the availability of enough fuel at filling stations, has justified the campaign for deregulation of the downstream oil sector, the Federal Govern-ment has said.
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This Day (Lagos)
14 October 2009
Although international oil companies (IOCs) operating in Nigeria have been expressing reservations about the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), the proposed legislation yesterday got the endorsement of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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Daily Trust (Abuja)
14 October 2009
The current state of the nation's refineries and other hitches afflicting the downstream sector would not rob Nigeria of the gains of deregulation, the Federal government has said.
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nigeria is not just a land of contradictions,where a nation has so much in aboundance in both human and natural resouses yet her citezenry lives in abject poverty.there is no light,no good road,no water to use and the oll we have so much in aboundance is a curse for the nation.is deregulation the problem of naija now?all the trillions of naira that have been allocated and looted what has the govt done about that?the only are that excites our govt is any are that will inflict further pains on nigerians.honestly the only solution to naija problems is REVOLUTION.Nigerians lets arise and fight fight for our right.
Vanguard (Lagos)
14 October 2009
PRESIDENT Umaru Yar'Adua has said that the success of amnesty programme, granted militants in the Niger Delta region, has enhanced the status of Nigeria as a peaceful state in the comity of nations.
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Leadership (Abuja)
14 October 2009
The success of the Niger Delta amnesty programme had raised the profiled of Nigeria in the eyes of international community as a peaceful individual and committed nation capable of providing answers to issues that tore other nations apart, President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua disclosed.
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Daily Trust (Abuja)
14 October 2009
The amnesty offer by the Federal Government to militants in the Niger Delta officially ended on October 4. At the last count, fifteen thousand of the militants have accepted the offer, surrendered themselves and have either turned in the weapons in their possession, or are in the process of doing so, according to the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Panel, Air Vice-Marshal Lock Ararile.
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Vanguard (Lagos)
19 October 2009
The outrage generated by the debate over provisions contained in the Petroleum Industry Bill appears to have created a deep and widening divide in the nation's oil and gas industry between the Ministry of Petroleum Resources and the multinational oil exploration and production companies.
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Vanguard (Lagos)
19 October 2009
The Nigerian Senate has affirmed its commitment to the smooth passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) which is designed to provide legal and regulatory framework for the oil industry, in what appears a resolute move to place Nigeria in the league of first class oil producing nations.
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Daily Champion (Lagos)
20 October 2009
Preparations on ground strongly show that the much expected and controversial commercial deregulation of the Nigerian petroleum market may come under full implementation by November.
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Vanguard (Lagos)
26 October 2009
Operations of the Warri Refinery and Petrochemical Company (WRPC) may be affected as from today if the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) make good its threat to shut down the company, following the management's lackadaisical attitude to the supposed poor conditions of service of its 2,000 members.
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Vanguard (Lagos)
26 October 2009
In what appears a twist to the pursuit of the deregulation of the downstream sector of the oil and gas industry, the Federal Government has refused to grant import licence to traders and petroleum products marketers.
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Vanguard (Lagos)
4 November 2009
As tension grips the nation over planned deregulation of the oil sector and the privatisation of the country's refineries, the Education rights Campaign (ERC) has threatened to mobilise Nigerian students and youths for nationwide protest actions and lecture boycotts should government fail to halt this policy.
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Vanguard (Lagos)
4 November 2009
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), yesterday advised the Federal Government to shelve the planned deregulation of the downstream oil sector for now, noting that unless the nation's refineries become functional, deregulation would create more problems for both Nigerians and the government.
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This Day (Lagos)
4 November 2009
A member of the National Stakeholders Working Group, NSWG, of the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa, yesterday said fuel had since been deregulated in the South-east and some parts of the northern part of the country.
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Leadership (Abuja)
6 November 2009
Following the suit brought against the Federal Government on the ongoing plan to deregulate the downstream sector by Barrister Bamidele Aturu, the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja will begin hearing in the case on November 26, 2009 before Justice M. A. Bello.
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This Day (Lagos)
6 November 2009
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua said yesterday that there was no going back on the planned deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry.
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Vanguard (Lagos)
9 November 2009
The proposed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), has continued to receive knocks from stakeholders and other concerned individuals and groups with workers in the upstream sector of the petroleum industry faulting among others, the absence of specific provisions on expatriate quota and local manpower training.
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Vanguard (Lagos)
9 November 2009
Mrs Nkechi Obi is the Managing Director, Techno Oil Limited, a significant player in the downstream sector of the oil industry. In this interview with Vanguard's Yemie Adeoye she speaks on infrastructural challenges and prospects of full deregulation in the downstream sub_sector of the petroleum industry.
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Daily Champion (Lagos)
9 November 2009
Going back to the issue of deregulation and the merits of this market reform strategy, a useful re-entry point to this discussion would lie in the review of the central plank of the stock argument, generally favoured by the ranks of the opponents of the deregulation proposals.
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Daily Trust (Abuja)
10 November 2009
The problem with all educated illiterates is the fact that they read the laws with the candid simplicity with which they read Achebe's Things Fall Apart.
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Leadership (Abuja)
16 November 2009
The Chairman of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Industry. Hon Solomon Agidani, has called for appropriate pricing of gas to stem eminent collapse of major manufacturing concerns, which had reconsigned their plants, in compliance of government's new push to encourage use of gas as cost effective means of production.
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Vanguard (Lagos)
14 November 2009
TO be or not to be, that is no longer the question. It is no longer if, but when this "dreaded nightmare" will land on hapless Nigerians, making life just a little more miserable. So, after all the vacillation; the undiplomatic double-speak; after all the postulation and grandstanding by senior government officials; the "plague" is now upon us.
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Vanguard (Lagos)
14 November 2009
Since the Federal Government declared its intention to deregulate the downstream sector of the petroleum industry confusion has dogged the plan. No matter how hard the government tries to justify its action many people and groups believe that it is a disgrace for Nigeria as a major oil producing country and a member of OPEC to still import petrol for domestic consumption. Dr. Ausbeth Ajagu,a ...
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Daily Champion (Lagos)
16 November 2009
Lagos lawyer, Mr. Mohammed Fawehinmi has warned that the planned deregulation of the downstream sector would cause inflation and suffering to the people.
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Leadership (Abuja)
19 November 2009
Central Bank Governor, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has urged the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to continue with the reforms in the petroleum sector irrespective of the prevailing challenges, saying they were critical to the banking sector in Nigeria.
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Right on! This withdrawal symptom is the best approach to wean Nigeria from its over dependence on imports of what should have been produced locally. Let the face off between the Feds & the gasoline hoarders continue - in six months or less, we will begin to see a return to nomalcy, depending on who blinks first. It will take a tough love approach like this to break the back of economic saboteurs. Albeit the public may suffer in the short run, they will reap the benefit, eventually, if they can just hang in there.