Category: Business News

By Oke Peter Residents of Oporoza, the traditional headquarters of Gbaramatu Kingdom, and home town of wanted former Niger Delta militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, in the Warri South West Local Government  Area of Delta State, were on Tuesday, thrown into panic when they saw two military helicopters hovering round the community. It was gathered…

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr Maikanti Baru, has said that Nigeria fervently looked up to the Nigerian Metallurgical Society (NMS) to assist in salvaging the country’s steel industry, noting that the sector was critical to the nation’s industrial revolution. Dr. Baru who stated this while speaking at the…

As the festive periods draw near, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has assured that it would ensure a hitch-free supply of petroleum products nationwide during the season. Group Managing Director of the Corporation, Dr Maikanti Baru, who made the commitment on Monday, during the inauguration of the Board of Directors of the Petroleum Products…

By Oke Peter Acting Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Mr Usman Mohammed, has disclosed that right-of-way concerns are a major problem confronting Nigeria’s power transmission expansion programme. Mohammed revealed that right-of-way issues constitute about 80 per cent of court cases involving the TCN. “Right-of-way is a big issue in Nigeria and…

The international oil giant, Total, has announced the appointment of Marie-Noëlle Semeria as the organisation’s Senior Vice President, Group CTO, effective November 2nd, 2017. Marie-Noëlle Semeria began her career at Sagem, the high-tech unit of the SAFRAN Group before joining the French start-up PixTech in 1994 and CEA in 1996. During her previous 20 years…

ExxonMobil has announced that it is partnering with two Singapore universities to open a Singapore Energy Center in 2019 to focus on new discoveries and significant improvements to technologies that could improve energy production, and enhance energy efficiency and other efforts to mitigate the risk of climate change. ExxonMobil signed a memorandum of understanding with the…

The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has declared that changing the Nigerian economic psyche is not an easy task, stating that the current tax drive of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration was not designed for short-term lure of political expediency. In an article captioned: ‘All Change: Nigeria is Not An Oil Economy,’ Adeosun said: By…

By Oke Peter The Nigeria’s power sector lost 2,648.7 megawatts (mw) on the October 29 to line and gas constraints, according to the daily electricity generation report by the Federal Ministry of Power Works and Housing. The daily report, obtained by Energy Worth, put the utilized generation capability of Geregu Nigerian National Integrated Power Project…

Nigerian airlines spend more on aviation fuel than their counterparts in other parts of the world, experts in the industry have said. On the average, Nigerian carriers are said to spend about 40 per cent of their expenditure on fuel, whereas their counterparts globally spend about 29 per cent, showing a difference of 11 per…

The management of Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHEDC), has commiserated with the families of those who died recently in Calabar following an electrical accident. Recall that a 11KV feeder snapped on Tuesday, October 24, night at Inyang Street, Adak Uko, Calabar, and dropped on two buildings, setting them on fire. The two people who…