The Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property has uncovered eight-dollar accounts and other naira accounts said to be kept by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) with the Ecobank Plc. The correspondences obtained by The PUNCH on Sunday show that the panel, through its chairman, Mr Okoi Obono-Obla, has written to…
Africa’s biggest economy has been crippled by its woeful power supply Babatunde Fashola’s office was buzzing like so many Nigerian workplaces, humming and whirring as diesel generators and batteries clicked on when the power cut out. That he is Nigeria’s power minister was an irony not lost on him. The fact that even the Power,…
Otunba Segun Badipe is a Nigerian nuclear medical scientist based in the United States. He is also a health administrator and a public affairs analyst. With over 36 years’ practice in private and public health care management, Badipe speaks, among other things, on issues that border on Nigeria with a Diaspora perspective. Having been a…
By Oke Peter The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said with the 3,500 million standard cubic feet per day of additional gas to be supplied from seven critical gas development projects, the nation’s economy can create up to seven million jobs and boost the Gross Domestic Product by about $50bn. The corporation’s Group Executive…
A father and his son were arraigned before a Magistrate court in Agbowa, on Thursday, 30th May 2019, for assaulting staff of Ikeja Electric while carrying out their duties in Oluhunda Community in Adamo, Ikorodu. From the video which trended on social media, the trio of Okiki Akintola, 50, Mohammed Akintola, 22 and Abdulameed Okiki…
At the beginning of this year, major international companies and agencies (the IAEA, McKinsey, BP, the World Nuclear Association, etc.) laid out the current trends and main statistics of the global energy market. The Global Energy and CO2 Status report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) informed us about current international trends in the field…
