Day: May 22, 2020

EXCLUSIVE: 48 oil workers test positive for COVID-19 in Nigeria’s Rivers state

Efe Wellington

     60% Rivers’ coronavirus cases are oil workers – Gov Wike   48 oil workers have tested poairice for Coronavirus in Nigeria’s oil-rich Rivers state. Governor of the state, Nyesom Wike, a Lawyer, who gave this hint, when he received the management team from the Nigeria’s subsidiary of ExxonMobil – United States supermajor – Mobil Producing Unlimited, at the Government House in Port Harcourt, noted that oil workers coming from rigs are the most affected. The Nigeria’s Disease Control agency, NCDC update as at Wednesday, May 20, the day…

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Nigeria’s petrol import hits 20.89bn in on year

Subomi Leshi

  Country’s statistics bureau unveils 2019 white products data   The importation of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) popularly known as petrol into Nigeria, Africa’s biggest crude oil exporter, hit 20.79 billion litres in 2019. The country’s data reservoir, National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), which declared this in its latest report on petroleum products importations statistics for 2019, maintained that the high volume of the product’s import was buoyed by inefficiency of local refining capacity. The country, NBS noted,also imported 5.15 billion litres of Automotive Gas (AGO) known as diesel, and…

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