Energy - Top News

• November 16
• Daily Champion Nigeria: BPE Pledges to Reform Power Sector

  The Director-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Dr Christopher Anyanwu, has said that the Agency is determined to reform the power sector in the country.

• Leadership Nigeria: NNPC Targets 50 Per Cent Ownership of Filling Stations

  In a bid to put to rest the perennial artificial fuel scarcity in the country, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has concluded arrangements with some independent marketers to take over their filling stations in order to sustain steady fuel supply.

• Leadership Nigeria: Citizens Must Vote Out Bad Leaders -- PPA

  Nigerians have been urged to persevere in the face of the ongoing hardship and general insecurity in the country and use the coming elections in 2011 to put in the right leadership that will lift the country from the pangs of poverty.

• Leadership Nigeria: NSCHE Expresses Worry Over Deregulation

  The past president of the Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers (NSCHE), Engr. Alex Ogedegbe, has expressed worry over government's plan to deregulate the downstream sector of the economy.

• This Day Nigeria: Governors, Experts to Parley Over Non-Oil Revenue

  Thirty six state governors, technocrats, academics and industrialists will tomorrow discuss how Nigeria could grow non-oil revenue to fund states and local government councils on a sustainable basis.

• Daily Trust Nigeria: RMAFC, FAAC Query NNPC Over U.S. $545 Million JVC

  The Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) and the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) have asked the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to explain why the country pays $545 million monthly on the Joint Venture Cash Call (JVC) only to get lesser returns.

• Daily Trust Nigeria: Deregulation - TUC Shuns Meeting With FG

  Trade Union Congress (TUC) sources yesterday revealed to Daily Trust that the union declined a meeting with the Federal Government's team this week to discuss government's plans to deregulate the downstream petroleum sector.

• This Day Nigeria: Deregulation - Shekarau Seeks Special Agency

  Kano state governor, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, at the weekend, called on the Federal Government to create a special agency where the benefits of the subsidy removed from the petroleum sector as a resultof deregulation is used for delivery of democracy dividends to Nigerians like what happened during the military era.

• This Day Nigeria: FCTA to Introduce Road, Property Taxes in Abuja

  The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) said it had concluded arrangements with the Directorate of Road Traffic Services (DRTS) to introduce a road tax policy in Abuja.