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Nigeria’s petroleum downstream sub-sector, especially refineries, pipelines and others may witness a major overhaul following ongoing talks between the Federal Government and the Saudi authorities in Riyadh. The Minister of Energy Industry and Mineral Resources of the Kingdom of Saudi ...

The Delta State government has waded into a face-off between an oil firm and the over 112 oil-bearing Urhobo, Isoko, Ijaw and Itsekiri communities in the Oil Mining Lease 30 to avert an economic crisis that could result in shut-in ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the inclusion of Justice J.O.K Oyewole as a member of the Osun State Governorship Election Appeal Tribunal. Speaking at a media briefing yesterday, its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said, “The party’s position ...

President of the Court of Appeal has constituted two election tribunals to handle election petition cases in Nasarawa State. Secretary of the National and State Assembly Election Petitions, Bello Mukhtar, who disclosed this yesterday in Lafia, said another panel was ...

Provost of Tai Solarin College of Education (TASCE), Dr. Adeola Kiadese, has denied spending millions of Naira from the institution’s Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) to buy gifts for imams and pastors during festivities. Based on the allegation, staff members under ...

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday expressed grief over the killing of some Christian youths during an Easter procession on Sunday night in Gombe and reprisal attack on security officials allegedly responsible for the incident. Describing the killings as “very unfortunate,” the ...

Apostolic Administrator of the Catholic Archdiocese of Jos and Coadjutor of Abuja Archdiocese, Reverend Ignatius Kaigama, has urged Plateau State Governo, Simon Lalong, to use his second term in office to promote lasting peace and unity in the region. In ...

A medical practitioner in Imo State, Harold Onumo, has rejected an appointment by Governor Rochas Okorocha. Okorocha had on April 5, 2019 appointed and inaugurated Onumo (in absentia) as Board Chairman, Imo State Agency for Control of HIV/AIDS, (SACA). But ...

The Federal Government has restated its commitment to the provision of incentives to increase the output and quality of agricultural commodities to meet and surpass national requirements. Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Mohammed Bello Umar, ...

The Centre for Peace and Environmental Justice (CEPEJ) has asked the federal government to compensate the families of the 11 persons who died in the 2016 pipeline explosion at Agip’s oilfield in Southern Ijaw Council of Bayelsa State. It urged ...