Day: September 29, 2020

NNPC surges domestic gas utilization target to 5bn scuf daily

Micheal Olatunji

How Nigeria kept to UN, Paris Club Accord on gas utilization – NNPC     The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Tuesday declared plans to surge the nation’s domestic gas utilization to 5billion standard cubic feet of gas per day (scf/d) and developing 5gigawatts (GW) of power generation for balanced economic growth. Group Managing Director of NNPC, Mallam Mele Kyari, who disclosed this Tuesday at the BusinessDay Energy Series Summit which held virtually with theme: “Nigeria at 60: Harnessing Nigeria’s Energy for the Future,” stated that this target, which is…

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Nigeria pushes Oil sector’s GDP share to $100bn

Precious Ibekwe

Highest body of Nigerian petroleum searchers, Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE), poured eulogy on NNPC boss, Mele Kyari, for heightening Chad basin, Benue Trough oil searches despite COVID-19 pandemic   The Nigerian Government has heightened the search for oil in the Chad basin as the oil industry’s Contribution to Gross Domestic Products has been deepened to $100 billion. President of Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE), Engr. Alex Tarka, and Executive Director, Commercial and Strategy, Total Nigeria Plc, George Oguachuba, stated these on Tuesday at a one-day virtual workshop…

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Inside Petroleum Industry Bill Nigeria’s President Buhari transmitted to National Assembly

Efe Wellington

  Asides a proposal for NNPC, PPPRA, PEF scrapping, new PIB gives more power to oil, finance ministers, cuts down powers for DPR, others President Muhammadu Buhari has transmitted the much awaited Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) 2020 to the National Assembly and has proposed the creation of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited. The document, which has been caught up in the back and forth between the Nigeria’s executive and legislative arms for about 20 years also, according to a statement from the National Assembly, proposes the scrapping of the…

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How Caleb Varsity Produced 44 First Class, 1,158 First, Second degrees’ graduates

Temilade Aroyewun

  1,158 graduates received scrolls for the award of first degree and postgraduate studies at the Caleb University’s 10th Convocation ceremony held online Caleb University, Friday, September 25, churned out 44 First Class graduates at the 10th convocation of the private institution located at Imota, Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital. The authorities of the university also conferred the institution’s Honorary Doctor of Science in Political Strategy and Development (Honoris Causa) on Nigeria’s Elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, who was installed at the ceremony, which was held on online/virtual platform, as the…

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From Wuhan to Abuja, Here are Some prominent Nigerians, global citizens COVID-19 struck, killed

Damilola Olonade

The record of those who died after contracting COVID all over the World as at Monday, September 28, 2020, surpassed 1 million people. Over 33 million have also been infected with a long list of people including leading figures in politics, sport, royalty and entertainment. Here are some of the prominent cases in Nigeria, Africa and all over the World of those who contracted the dreaded virus as well as the figures of those who died after testing positive to the virus plus dates of infections and death as the…

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