November 30

• New Laws Offer a Blueprint for a Transparent Oil Sector

  Global Witness

  Amid reports of endemic corruption, escalating security concerns, and delays restarting crude oil production, South Sudan's new oil laws offer grounds to be optimistic about the... Read more »

• FG Dumps N300 Billion Devt Projects

  Daily Trust

  The House of Representatives yesterday said about N300 billion was yet to be released for various capital projects with just a month to the end of the fiscal year, putting many... Read more »

• Court Dismisses Suit On How U.S.$12.5 Billion Oil Windfall Was Spent

  This Day

  A Federal High Court in Abuja Thursday dismissed a suit seeking to expose how the U.S.$12.5 billion oil windfall recorded by Nigeria under the leadership of retired General Ibrahim... Read more »

• Presidency - Petrol Will Be Available At Yuletide Season

  This Day

  Against the backdrop of incessant artificial fuel scarcity being experienced in the country, Nigerians have been assured by the federal government that it is determined to... Read more »

• U.S.$12.4 Billion Oil Windfall - Court Declines to Okay Probe Into Okigbo's Report

  Vanguard

  After six successive adjournments, Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, yesterday, dismissed the suit that sought to expose how the $12.4... Read more »

• Court Dismisses U.S.$12.4 Billion Oil Windfall Suit

  Daily Trust

  The Abuja Federal High Court yesterday dismissed a suit filed by civil society groups seeking information on how the $12.4 billion accrued from oil windfall was spent by the... Read more »

• FG Assures On Fuel Availability At Yuletide

  Vanguard

  Despite the fuel scarcity being experienced in some parts of the country, Federal Government has given assurances that there would be uninterrupted supply of petroleum products... Read more »

• Investors Rush for Mtwara Freeport Zone

  Daily News

  PROSPECTIVE investors have shown keen interest to invest on the envisaged Mtwara Freeport Zone that seeks to serve the gas and oil exploration activities. Read more »

• Presidency, Alison-Madueke Assure of Fuel Supply At Yuletide

  This Day

  The Federal Government yesterday said it was determined to guarantee uninterrupted supply of petroleum products during the Yuletide season. Read more »

• Sharp Decline in Oil Products in 2012 - Industry Ministry

  Tunis Afrique Presse

  National crude oil production fell 4% in the first ten months of 2012 compared to the same period in 2011, reaching 2,622 kt of oil equivalent, according to recent statistics of... Read more »

• Court Remands Six for Murder, Vandalisation

  Daily Trust

  A Lagos Federal High Court,Thursday ordered six accused persons to be remanded in prison custody for alleged vandalisation of an oil pipeline, and murder of three Engineers of the... Read more »

• Azinam Gets Stake in 13 Petroleum Blocks

  Namibian

  AZINAM has acquired a substantial presence in the emerging exploration province offshore Namibia within the Walvis and Luderitz Basins. Read more »

• Odio Gets Oil Spill Committee

  Daily Trust

  The Odio community in Eket Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State has constituted a seven man committee on the recent oil spill reported at the Qua Iboe oil fields. Read more »

• Oil Chaos - MPs Face Expulsion

  Observer

  After a chaotic oil debate in Parliament on Tuesday, Speaker Rebecca Kadaga wants the errant MPs found guilty of turning the chambers into a theatre of horseplay, expelled from the... Read more »

• Deregulation, BPE and the PIB

  Vanguard

  TWENTY three years after Nigeria's independence was an era that witnessed huge capital investments by the Federal Government to lay the foundation for a strong and vibrant economy. Read more »

• Facts About the Petite Vitz

  Observer

  The Toyota Vitz is common with women perhaps because its pint size makes it look feminine. Well, aside from its petite size, the Vitz is also known for its impressive fuel... Read more »

• U.S.$620,000 Bribe - Farouk Lawan Matter Overflogged - Reps

  Leadership

  The House of Representatives yesterday declared the $620,000 bribery scandal which one of its members, Farouk Lawan grapples with as "over -flogged." Read more »

• Challenged, Diezani Maintains Focus

  Leadership

  Minister of the strategic petroleum resources ministry, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke oversees the most maligned sector of the nation's economic domain. Read more »

• Kadaga Slams Unruly MPs in Chaotic Oil Debate

  New Vision

  Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has suspended Parliament indefinitely following Tuesday's incident where MPs became rowdy and others attempted to grab the mace. Read more »

November 29

• Tensions Grow Over Nigerian Oil Firms

  Daily Trust

  There is tension in Niger Republic over alleged preference given to Nigerian oil marketers in lifting of refined petroleum products from the French-speaking West African country's... Read more »

• Dealing With Govt Censorship and Oil Money [analysis]

  Maka

  The latest press coverage on corruption, human rights abuses, violations of freedom of the press and socio-economic exclusion in Angola, every Wednesday on Maka Angola: Read more »

• Oil, a Silent Driver of the 2012 Elections [analysis]

  Ghanaian Chronicle

  The conduct of politics in Ghana has never been the same, after huge deposits of commercially viable hydrocarbons were discovered off the country's coast in 2007, with commercial... Read more »

• Kofi Annan: The World Must Tackle Corruption in Africa's Oil, Gas, and Mining

  Africa Progress Panel

  Private companies, civil society, government officials, and academics discuss the options for using Africa’s natural resource wealth to benefit its populations more fairly. Read more »

• Subsidy Claim - No Rift Between Okonjo-Iweala, Alison-Madueke - Presidency

  Leadership

  The Presidency, yesterday, foreclosed the possibility of any seeming rift between the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs.... Read more »

• 'Jonathan's SURE-P Is a Drain Pipe On Nigeria's Economy'

  Vanguard

  THE National Assembly Wednesday took a swipe at President Goodluck Jonathan's Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P), describing it as a drain pipe on the Nigerian... Read more »