Tag Archives: oil and gas

A prosecution witness, Tosin Owobo, an investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday told Justice M.B. Idris of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos that N2.4 billion, $115 million, 12 properties and bullet-proof cars were recovered from a former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adeola Amosu (rtd.). Mr Amosu is standing trial alongside two serving ...

According to Vanguard, efforts by the Oil and Gas Free Zones Authority, OGFZA, to fulfill its core mandate and play a key role in the Federal Government’s drive for foreign direct investments, FDI, received a major boost, weekend, when the Bayelsa State Government announced that it has handed over to OGFZA state lands measuring 35,000 hectares for the development of ...

According to Vanguard, Delta State Government, said 2,980 hectares of land had been acquired for the $20 billion Gas Revolution Industrial Park, GRIP Project,  in Warri South-West Local Government Area of the state, out of the 4,000 hectares needed by the investors. The state Commissioner for Oil and Gas, Mr Mofe Pirah, disclosed this while addressing representatives of 15 cluster ...

According to Nigeria Today, stakeholders in the Nigerian oil and gas industry have identified the dearth of infrastructure as the biggest challenge facing the sector. Consequently, the call has been the need to urgently focus on addressing this key sector, with the private sector favoured to be the driver. In this report, FESTUS OKOROMADU writes on the need to help ...

According to The Guardian, the awaiting inaugural West African International Petroleum Conference and Exhibition (WAIPEC) opened doors to delegates and visitors today (February 22) with a two-day first-class conference programme and exhibition, specifically developed to provide real value and insight for delegates and visitors from across the industry. The Guardian also reports the conference programme, according to the organisers, is ...

If you’ve never seen a “mammy water”  or what the ‘more learned’ ones would call mermaid, then you need to visit Port-Harcourt; there are lots of them there. Port Harcourt is home to various species of fishes. It is probably the best place in Nigeria to go ‘a fishing’ or to embark on a fishing trip but of course that ...