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NCDMB Holds Retreat with Senate Committee on Local Content, Seeks Close Collaboration
By Ngozi Onyeakusi---The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and the Senate Committee on Local Content on Sunday began a 3-day retreat at Abuja, aimed at forging closer…
NCDMB, UBEC explore Opportunities for Capacity Building, Support for Basic Education
L-R: Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr Hamid Bobboyi and the Executive Secretary, Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Felix Omatsola Ogbe after the meeting between…
AEDC Appoints Chijoke Okwuokenye MD/CEO
By Ngozi Onyeakusi---Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has announced the appointment of Engr. Chijioke Okwuokenye as the acting Managing Director, with immediate effect. This appointment, which is part of…
Gas flaring: Senate indicts IOCs on non-payment of penalties, says NUPRC abetting oil firms
The Senate has indicted International Oil firms, IOCs operating in Nigeria for their failure to remit gas-flaring penalties, as stipulated by the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA). Similarly, the upper chamber…
Tax Tribunal orders NLNG to pay $27.5m to FIRS as 2016 revised Corporate Income Tax
By Ngozi Onyeakusi---Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) has noted media reports suggesting that a Tax Appeal Tribunal ordered NLNG to pay $ million to the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS)…
Why We’ve Destroyed 7,500 Illegal Refineries Says NNPC
NNPCL logo The Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari, has said that as part of an effort to tackle oil theft,…
The Nigeria Prize for Literature Unveils 2024 Longlist of 11
By Ngozi Onyeakusi---The Advisory Board for The Nigeria Prize for Literature has unveiled the longlist of 11 books competing for the 2024 prize, selected from a total of 163 entries.…
FG’s 90,000km Fibre Project Faces Obstacles
By Ngozi Onyeakusi--Stakeholders in the telecommunications industry have said the Federal Government’s plan to deploy 90,000 kilometers of fibre optic cables across the country will face several obstacles, especially from…
Seplat Energy canvasses optimization of Nigeria’ sub-surface potentials
Seplat Energy PLC, leading Nigerian independent energy company listed on both the Nigerian Exchange and the London Stock Exchange, says Nigeria’s sub-surface potentials could be largely optimized and oil/gas production…
NNPC Plans to Build Three LNG Stations, 100 CNG Sites
Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), Rt. Hon. Ekperikpe Ekpo (3rd left) cuts a tape to commission an NNPC Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Station in Abuja, as part of…