Day: August 23, 2020

Chevron parleys union, contractor as 175 Nigerian oil workers lose jobs

Efe Wellington

  United States oil supermajor, Chevron, has declared that it has started engaging the oil workers’ union and its independent contractor company who sacked 175 staff hitherto working for it on Chevron’s platform in Nigeria. The union known as National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas workers (NUPENG) issued a seven-day warning strike threat over the sack of the staff and in a reaction to enquiry made by Platforms Africa on the 7-day strike, General Manager- Policy, Government and Public Affairs, Chevron Nigeria Limited, ESIMAJE BRIKINN, insisted that the Contractor…

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How Nigerian Police Located, Rearrested Fleeing Ibadan Serial Killer

Okanlawon Adisa

  Fleeing serial killer in Nigeria’s Ibadan, largeat city in West Africa, Sunday Shodipe, has been rearrested at his grandmother home in Ojoo area of the city. Shodipe, 19, escaped from police custody on August 11, after confessing to killing no fewer than five persons in Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State. He was believed to have killed the persons, mainly women, for ritual purposes. The spokesman of the Oyo State Police Command, Gbenga Fadeyi, confirmed the rearrest of Shodipe on Sunday. He was rearrested in the home of…

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Nigeria rakes in $4.60bn crude oil revenues in one Year

Efe Wellington

The crude oil exports and sale by the Nigeria, Africa biggest exporter of the commodity, has hit $4.60 billion in one Year. The Nigerian  National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), which confirmed this in its Monthly Financial and Operational Report (MFOR) for the month June released on Sunday, also announced a total crude oil and gas export receipt of $378.42million in June 2020. This is against $133.16 million it posted in May 2020, signaling a marked improvement in revenue earnings apparently following the ease of the COVID-19 pandemic global lockdown and the…

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