Nigeria: Appear Next Week or Face Arrest, Senate Tells NNPC, IOCs

20 July 2018

Abuja — The Senate yesterday asked the Nigeria National Petroleum Company, NNPC, as well as oil and gas companies involved in the execution of the Obite-Ubeta-Rumuji (OUR) and North Option Pipeline (NOPL) Gas Pipelines Projects to appear before it to explain the astronomical cost of completing the two major gas pipeline projects by Ethese companies.

Subsequently, the Senate gave the NNPC and the International Oil Companues, IOCs five days ultimatum to appear and explain how far they had gone with the $1 billion Gas Pipeline project and at the expiration of the deadline, it would be forced to issue a warrant for their arrest.

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