February 11
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Oil Talks Between North & South Sudan and Slightly Delayed
Sudan Tribune
The negotiations between Sudan and South Sudan on oil are set to start on Saturday, a 24-hour delay from the original schedule. Read more »
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Oil Agreements - How Museveni Tricked MPs
Observer
As President Museveni addresses Members of Parliament today, details have emerged as to how he sidestepped the legislators to ensure that the oil agreements were signed without... Read more »
February 10
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Boko Haram Fallout - Fuel Smuggling
RNW Africa
When Nigeria closed its border with Cameroon following a series of deadly attacks by the Islamist sect Boko Haram, fuel smugglers continued to develop crafty ways to transport... Read more »
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Daily Champion
Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) yesterday said it has destroyed an oil pipeline in southern Nigeria, in its first attack in more than a year. Read more »
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Govt Explores Pipeline Route Through Ethiopia and Djibouti
Sudan Tribune
South Sudan on Thursday said it has started talks with the Djibouti government to build an alternative oil pipeline through Ethiopia and Djibouti; weeks after the cabinet of the... Read more »
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Fuel Scarcity Looms, Unless - NNPC, PPPRA
Leadership
The Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Product Pricing and Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, Mr. Reginald Stanley, yesterday informed the House of Representatives adhoc committee probing... Read more »
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House Probe - Fresh Fraud Uncovered in Subsidy Payments
Vanguard
Fresh massive fraud in the subsidy payments on fuel and kerosene was, Thursday, unearthed in the on-going investigation on fuel subsidy regime. Read more »
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Daily Trust
The Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Product Pricing and Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) Reginald Stanley yesterday said there was looming scarcity of petrol in Nigeria. Read more »
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Subsidy Probe - House Uncovers Fresh Fraud, NNPC Indicted
Leadership
As the curtains on the probe of the fuel subsidy management by the House of Representatives ad-hoc committee drop, the committee, has queried the Nigeria National Petroleum... Read more »
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NNPC, PPPRA, PPMC Don't Know Kerosene Price
Daily Trust
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) and Pipelines Products Marketing Company Limited (PPMC) yesterday all said... Read more »
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2011 Subsidy Fund Hits N2.25 Trillion
Daily Trust
The amount of money expended by the Federal government on payments of subsidy on imported fuel last year is now well over N2.2 trillion, Daily Trust can reveal. Read more »
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Live - President Museveni Oil Address
New Vision
2:30 Museveni takes to the floor of the House to address MPs Read more »
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Museveni in the House for Oil Address
New Vision
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni is to address Parliament Friday afternoon on the signing of the controversial agreements. Read more »
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Ghanaian Chronicle
One week down the line, the reduction in petroleum prices announced by the government has still not got to the fuel stations. What this means is that drivers have not benefitted... Read more »
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Bayelsa State to Speed Up Aid for Oil-Spill Victims
IRIN
Nigeria's Bayelsa State government said yesterday it would speed up the release of money over the next two weeks to help hundreds of thousands of villagers affected by a Chevron... Read more »
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Museveni Addresses Parliament On Oil Agreements [document]
Monitor
4:11pm: I wish to inform you that when we were in Kyankwanzi and I left to address KACITA which was striking because they were not importing perfumes, I later held meetings with... Read more »
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Oil Boom - Conservationists Raise Eyebrows Over Threats to Nature
Monitor
It's time to celebrate Uganda's oil and gas exploration in the oil fields of Mputa, Waraga, Nzizi and KingFisher? Oil is feared to be a curse to the environment much as petrol... Read more »
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New Agip Spill, Indigenes Fear Fire Outbreak
Leadership
The people of Biseni clan in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State yesterday raised an alarm over a new oil spill from an oil well belonging to the Agip Oil Company in the... Read more »
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Exxon, NNPC to Seal U.S.$1.5 Billion Loan Deal
This Day
Quoting unnamed international bankers, Bloomberg reported yesterday that Standard Chartered Plc and South African lenders Standard Bank Group Ltd and Nedbank Group Ltd. are among... Read more »
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Ex-NEITI Chair Faults FG's Shake-up in Petroleum Sector
This Day
Immediate past chairman of the National Stakeholders Working Group (NSWG) of the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Prof. Asisi Asobie, has faulted the... Read more »
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PENGASSAN Gives 7-Day Strike Notice to Rivers Gov
Vanguard
PETROLEUM and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, has issued a seven days strike notice to Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi and the manager of VAM... Read more »
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PENGASSAN Defends DPR Budget for Staff
Vanguard
Following the report that the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, is poised to spend N27 million on each of its 1,100 staff in 2012, the Department's branch Chairman of the... Read more »
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Subsidy - Muslim, Christian Communities Declare Support for Jonathan
Daily Champion
Muslim and the Christian communities in Rivers state have declared their support for President Goodluck Jonathan over the recent removal of the fuel subsidy. Read more »
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Labour Did Not Collect Bribe to Suspend Fuel Subsidy Strike--Isok
Daily Champion
Mr Boniface Isok, President, National Union of Chemical, Footwear, Rubber, Leather and Non-metallic Products Employees (NUCFRLNPE) has reiterated that the nation's organized labour... Read more »
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ACN Jolted As Ribadu Accepts Appointment
The Moment
MALLAM Nuhu Ribadu is back on the scene, though this time not as the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) but to head the 20-member, newly established,... Read more »
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