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Exploration in Chad Basin Top Priority- Kachikwu

The Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Dr.Ibe Kachikwu says the commitment of the Federal Government and the NNPC to explore for oil and gas in the inland basins especially Chad Basin and the Benue Trough is unwavering and...

Collapse Of Oil Industry Imminent Over On Non-Passage Of PIB

Experts in the oil and gas industry converged on Abuja Tuesday to deliberate on the imminent collapse in the oil and gas sector, stating that the non-passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill before the National Assembly was responsible. The Convener of the “Save Nigeria Oil...

Why Dollar Rules Nigeria

Nigeria’s current financial and economic community is quick to point out the realities of her currency, the gyrations, floundering and nose-diving in all ramifications of suggesting an economic meltdown.The nation’s legal tender, the naira, has been on a free-fall against the United States dollar...

Economic Havocs of Fulani- Farmers’ feuds

The farming people of Agatu local government area of Benue state are in wailing. Why? Fulani herdsmen terrorised their villages for over two weeks, maiming and killing many of them in addition to destroying their property worth millions of naira.The clashes between the two...

Fuel Supply: Respite for Motorists, as NNPC consolidates Operation `One Cargo per Day’

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC over the weekend stepped up measures designed to eliminate the challenges experienced by members of the public in accessing petrol across the country. The NNPC, in a release noted that the intervention mechanism which is powered by the `Operation...

FG Moves To Unbundle NNPC Into 30 Companies

Ewache Ajefu. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, has said that the NNPC is to be unbundled into 30 profit-making companies with separate Managing Directors in the weeks ahead as...