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Chrome Group, one of the major players in the oil and gas sector in Nigeria, has acquired new anchor vessels for onshore-offshore and deep water oil and gas services. The vessels were acquired through one of its subsidiaries, Kaztec Engineering Limited...
As part of measures to ensure complete transparency and effectiveness in the operations and management of the nation’s downstream oil and gas sector, the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulation Agency (PPPRA) and the Department of Petroleum Resourc...
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has said Nigeria will not attain zero gas flaring but would in the nearest future reduce the volume of gas being flared, particularly when the necessary legislative framework is put in place. According ...
The Satellite Depot under the Western Zone of Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) in Lagos has commenced sales of kerosene at N50 per litre in their filling stations to Lagos residents. LEADERSHIP checks on the sales of the p...
Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, has again raised the bar in internet banking with an upgrade of its internet banking platform. According to the bank’s Managing Director, Mr. Segun Agbaje, the recent upgrade will enable customers use the GTBank internet ...
The federal government has said that the extension of the PHCN privatisation process to October this year was necessitated by the need to ensure transparency and thoroughness in the bids submitted so far. The Minister of State for Power, Mr Dariu...
Following the deplorable state of the nation's refineries which has resulted in local refining shortfall, and increase in the importation of petroleum products over the years, a National Refinery Task Force was yesterday inaugurated by the Minister...
The Governor of Niger state Dr muazu Babangida Aliyu has said that the current Shari a legal system in the state was political and that the state would soon criminalize certain aspects of the law such as marrying more than four wives. This is an indica...
The House of Representatives has expressed concern over increasing acts of illegalities perpetrated by some operators and users of the Eastern Ports. The House made its feelings known when its Committee on Marin Transport visited areas within the...
House of Representatives, yesterday, differed from the decision of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, to cancel the conduct of University Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, in the violence-prone States of Kano, Borno and other relat...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has raised an alarm over moves by the presidency to jettison the report of the probe of the oil industry by the Faruk Lawan led committee in the House of Representatives. President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Comr...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Offences Commission, yesterday, swooped on the Federal Medical Centre, (FMC) Abeokuta, and quizzed its medical Director, Dr Dapo Sotiloye, for allegedly embezzling a sum of N88million meant for housing allowa...
Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has assured that his victory at the Supreme Court on the governorship legal tussle with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) finally marked the end of an era of darkness in the State. The Governor, who addressed a cro...
Members of the Enugu State House of Assembly have decried the poor security set up at the premises of the House Assembly complex. Hon. Okechukwu Nwoke, representing Igbo-Etiti West constituency, who raised the issue, yesterday, during the sitting of th...
Gov. Jonah Jang of Plateau declared on Tuesday in Jos that the recent attack on COCIN headquarters Church in Jos was carried out by forces outside the state. Jang, who stated this when he received the COCIN President, Rev. Soja Bewarang, who led the Ex...