Total Upstream Nigeria Limited has said the Egina deep-water project is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2018 for the initial budget of $16bn. The Egina field, which was discovered by Total in 2003 within the Oil Mining Licence 130, some 200 kilometres south of Port Harcourt, is being developed by the […]

The immediate past Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, Dr. Sam Amadi, and the Secretary-General of the National Union of Electricity Employees, Mr. Joe Ajaero, have condemned the privatisation of the power sector. While Amadi stated that the government’s failure in the sector could not be cured by privatisation, Ajaero noted that the private […]

Barely 24 hours after oil workers under the aegis of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Lagos State Chapter, suspended the plan to withdraw their services, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria on Thursday threatened to embark on a nationwide strike. Last week, IPMAN, Lagos Chapter, accused the Nigerian National […]

The Federal Government on Thursday declared that all foreign brands of rice in the country at the moment were smuggled, adding that some of them were poisonous. According to the government, recent tests conducted by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development showed that most imported rice and poultry products were poisonous, as the […]