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There was a fire outbreak yesterday, which disrupted operations at Ejigbo Depot belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in Lagos.
The House of Representatives Committee on Gas Resources yesterday raised questions over the implementation of the 2009 Budget in the gas sector for which the Federal Government provided the sum of $1.5billion to fund the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in the execution of domestic gas projects.
Petroleum Equalisation Fund (PEF) Management Board yesterday announced the installation of new tracking equipment towards ensuring availability of petroleum products, a move seen as an innovative way of reducing the spate of petroleum product diversion in the country.
Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Justice Emmanuel Ayoola, yesterday canvassed a 15-year imprisonment term and forfeiture of assets of any culprit found to have embezzled funds accrueing from the welfare programmes of government , especially that expected from the deregulation of the oil sector.
The African University of Science and Technology (AUST), Abuja is to provide indigenous manpower to meet the demand for local content in the Nigerian oil sector. President of the university, Prof Hilary Inyang, who disclosed this during a tour by the Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Senator Polycarp Nwite said, "with the growing concern for local content in our oil sector, ...
TWO special Police constables attached to Boroboro out-post have been arrested over fuel theft. Geoffrey Okello and Patrick Odongo are accused of conniving with thieves to siphon fuel from China, Road and Bridge Construction, a company upgrading Soroti-Lira road.
Oando Plc, one of Nigeria's leading integrated energy providers has ratified the codes of the Convention on Business Integrity (CBI).
Nigeria's Engr Mustapha Bulama, a past President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) has been elected into the Executive Committee of the World Federation of Engineering Organisations (WFEO) at the just concluded world conference of the body in Kuwait.
When I was a child, my father spoke his mind about my out of line actions oftentimes with a whip. The lashes were painful all right, and did drive home his message very well.
Concerns are being raised over the delay in the commencement of the N3.8 billion Sokoto independent power project .Residents of Sokoto say the project is behind schedule and may not see the light of the day.
Parliament on Monday approved government's request of a $10m loan from the OPEC Fund for International Development to extend reliable and affordable electricity to areas of Kigali and the western Province.
LONG fuel queues have hit Lagos State and other major cities across the country, as the problem of logistics hinders efforts by the Pipeline Products and Marketing Company, PPMC, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to discharge products from its imported cargoes for distribution to marketers.
More green energy and climate-friendly projects target Africa than ever before, but the numbers still lag behind Asia and Latin America, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced today.
Ghana, in the next four years, will be among the petroleum exporting countries in Africa.
A senior government official Tuesday snubbed a parliamentary committee inquiry into the loss of Sh7.6 billion worth of oil products through Triton Petroleum Limited.
SA SHOULD strive for a target of 25% renewable energy contribution to consumption by 2025, according to Irish wind energy developer Mainstream Renewable Power's CEO, Eddie O'Connor.
FORMER Eskom chairman Bobby Godsell yesterday declined an invitation to return to the utility, dealing a heavy blow to the government and to Public Enterprises Minister Barbara Hogan in particular.
PROTESTING youths from the oil rich communities of Ondo State have reportedly disrupted the exploration activities of Conoil Nigeria Limited following alleged breached of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with the communities.
Last Sunday, Rwanda entered a groundbreaking agreement with two international firms Eco-fuels Global LLC, from the United States and Eco Positive Ltd from the UK.
About 20 public servants made up of technicians, engineers and administrators will leave Ogun State for China to understudy the assembling of Mini power plants that will be installed in the state in the first quarter of 2010.
Over 1000 former militants in the holding camp at Aluu, behind the University of Port Harcourt in Rivers State yesterday staged a violent demonstration, which spilled to the road separating Delta and Abuja campuses of the university and the East-West road where they blocked for several hours.
Long queues again resurfaced in Lagos, Abuja and parts of the North yesterday as logistics problem reportedly hindered efforts by the Pipeline Products and Marketing Company (PPMC), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to discharge products from its imported cargoes for distribution to marketers.
Tenders for the construction of a garbage-powered plant that will produce electricity will be posted in the first week of December.
Kenya will next week host a green electricity conference to develop a mixed power generation plan to meet rising needs.
Kenyans will exchange their ordinary bulbs for energy conserving ones at no cost from January next year under a government energy saving project.
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