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Nigeria: Deregulation - Why FG is Shifting Take-Off Date - NNPC Calls Stakeholders Meeting Over Fuel Scarcity
Independent (Lagos), 9 January 2010
Negative security reports, effects of the global economic downturn on the Nigerian economy and lately the long absence of president Umaru Yar'Adua from the country are among the… Read more »
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Nigeria: Yar'Adua - No Going Back On Deregulation
This Day, 6 November 2009
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua said yesterday that there was no going back on the planned deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry. Read more »
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Nigeria: IMF Endorses Country's Oil Industry Reform Bill
This Day, 14 October 2009
Although international oil companies (IOCs) operating in Nigeria have been expressing reservations about the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), the proposed legislation yesterday got… Read more »
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Nigeria: Deregulation Bill Still Receiving Knocks
Vanguard, 9 November 2009
The proposed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), has continued to receive knocks from stakeholders and other concerned individuals and groups with workers in the upstream sector of the… Read more »
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Nigeria: Current Fuel Scarcity Justifies Deregulation, Says Govt
This Day, 4 November 2009
The current situation where there is "induced scarcity" inspite of the availability of enough fuel at filling stations, has justified the campaign for deregulation of the… Read more »
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Nigeria: Oil Workers Union Threatens to Shut Key Refinery
Vanguard, 26 October 2009
Operations of the Warri Refinery and Petrochemical Company (WRPC) may be affected as from today if the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) make good its… Read more »
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Nigeria: Federal Govt Denies Oil Marketers Import Licence
Vanguard, 26 October 2009
In what appears a twist to the pursuit of the deregulation of the downstream sector of the oil and gas industry, the Federal Government has refused to grant import licence to… Read more »
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Nigeria: Uncertainty, Confusion Hit Fuel Market Ahead of Deregulation
Daily Champion, 20 October 2009
Preparations on ground strongly show that the much expected and controversial commercial deregulation of the Nigerian petroleum market may come under full implementation by… Read more »
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Nigeria: Deregulation - Price of Industrial Gas Soars By 200
Leadership, 16 November 2009
The Chairman of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Industry. Hon Solomon Agidani, has called for appropriate pricing of gas to stem eminent collapse of major… Read more »
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Nigeria: Oil Sector Deregulation - Students to Be Mobilised for Protests, Lecture Boycotts
Vanguard, 4 November 2009
As tension grips the nation over planned deregulation of the oil sector and the privatisation of the country's refineries, the Education rights Campaign (ERC) has threatened to… Read more »
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Nigeria: Oil Bill Divides Industry Stakeholders
Vanguard, 19 October 2009
The outrage generated by the debate over provisions contained in the Petroleum Industry Bill appears to have created a deep and widening divide in the nation's oil and gas industry… Read more »
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Nigeria: Post-Amnesty Stock-Taking
Daily Trust, 14 October 2009
The amnesty offer by the Federal Government to militants in the Niger Delta officially ended on October 4. At the last count, fifteen thousand of the militants have accepted the… Read more »
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Nigeria: Amnesty Success Enhances Country's Status, Says Yar'Adua
Vanguard, 14 October 2009
PRESIDENT Umaru Yar'Adua has said that the success of amnesty programme, granted militants in the Niger Delta region, has enhanced the status of Nigeria as a peaceful state in the… Read more »
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Nigeria: Petroleum Bill Critical to Banking Reform - Sanusi
Leadership, 19 November 2009
Central Bank Governor, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has urged the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to continue with the reforms in the petroleum sector irrespective of the… Read more »
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Nigeria: Fawehinmi's Son Flays Deregulation of Oil Sector
Daily Champion, 16 November 2009
Lagos lawyer, Mr. Mohammed Fawehinmi has warned that the planned deregulation of the downstream sector would cause inflation and suffering to the people. Read more »
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Nigeria: Deregulation Blues
Vanguard, 14 November 2009
TO be or not to be, that is no longer the question. It is no longer if, but when this "dreaded nightmare" will land on hapless Nigerians, making life just a little more miserable.… Read more »
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Nigeria: Deregulation - FG Should Go Back to the Drawing Board, Ajagu
Vanguard, 14 November 2009
Since the Federal Government declared its intention to deregulate the downstream sector of the petroleum industry confusion has dogged the plan. No matter how hard the government… Read more »
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Nigeria: Citizenship Versus Deregulation
Daily Trust, 10 November 2009
The problem with all educated illiterates is the fact that they read the laws with the candid simplicity with which they read Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Read more »
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Nigeria: Petrol Subsidy is a Waste of Resources - Obi
Vanguard, 9 November 2009
Mrs Nkechi Obi is the Managing Director, Techno Oil Limited, a significant player in the downstream sector of the oil industry. In this interview with Vanguard's Yemie Adeoye she… Read more »
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Nigeria: The Case for Deregulation
Daily Champion, 9 November 2009
Going back to the issue of deregulation and the merits of this market reform strategy, a useful re-entry point to this discussion would lie in the review of the central plank of… Read more »
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Nigeria: Deregulation - Hearing Against FG Begins November 26
Leadership, 6 November 2009
Following the suit brought against the Federal Government on the ongoing plan to deregulate the downstream sector by Barrister Bamidele Aturu, the Federal High Court sitting in… Read more »
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Nigeria: 'Fuel Already Deregulated in East, North'
This Day, 4 November 2009
A member of the National Stakeholders Working Group, NSWG, of the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa, yesterday said fuel had since… Read more »
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Nigeria: Ipman Wants Federal Govt to Drop Planned Deregulation of Downstream Sector
Vanguard, 4 November 2009
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), yesterday advised the Federal Government to shelve the planned deregulation of the downstream oil sector for… Read more »
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Nigeria: Senate to Pass Pib Before Year End, Ekweremadu
Vanguard, 19 October 2009
The Nigerian Senate has affirmed its commitment to the smooth passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) which is designed to provide legal and regulatory framework for the oil… Read more »
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Nigeria: 'Poor State of Refineries Will Not Disrupt Deregulation'
Daily Trust, 14 October 2009
The current state of the nation's refineries and other hitches afflicting the downstream sector would not rob Nigeria of the gains of deregulation, the Federal government has said. Read more »
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Nigeria: Amnesty Raised Our Profile in the World - Yar'Adua
Leadership, 14 October 2009
The success of the Niger Delta amnesty programme had raised the profiled of Nigeria in the eyes of international community as a peaceful individual and committed nation capable of… Read more »