Day: July 8, 2020

Why 600 firms jostled for Nigeria’s 57 marginal oilfields – DPR

Efe Wellington

More companies owned or managed by women joined the race in an unprecedented gender-balance participation in Nigeria’s bid round history.   The Director of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Auwalu Sarki, has said that investors’ belief in tranparent process put in place by his agency for the 57 oilfields’ bid round was partly responsible for the spike in number of firms who have joined the race for the oil acreages. Over 600 companies have, as at the last count, applied to be prequalified for the ongoing bid rounds in  Nigeria’s 57 Marginal Fields, the first in…

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Nigerian Court remands Mother, Daughter in Prison over Energy theft on Ikeja Electric Network

Damola Oyede

  A Nigerian Court has remanded a mother and her daughter in prison pending the perfection of their bail conditions over alleged energy theft on the network of Ikeja Electric, one of the two utility companies that connect Lagos – Nigeria’s commercial capital – to the grid. The two, who, according to a statement made available to Platforms Africa by Ikeja Electric, are residents of Fatokun Street in Abule Taylor, Off Abeokuta Expressway, Lagos, were arraigned before Ogba Magistrate Court. The duo of Latefat Shofidiya, 65 and Ekundayo Taiwo, 40…

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COVID-19: Nigeria’s biggest power plant, Egbin Power reacts as employee’s newborn dies

Damilola Olonade

  Newborn of our staff dies from post-delivery, not COVID-19 complications – Egbin MD   Egbin Power, one of Africa’s largest thermal electricity generation companies, has denied report that a newborn by one of its staff died on its premises due to COVID-19 protocols. Acting Chief Executive Officer of the plant that provides a quarter of Nigeria’s total power generation, Paul Harriman, declared in a statement to Platforms Africa that though the newborn of one of its staff died due to post-delivery complications outside the facility, the death has nothing…

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