
Climate Change: Over 600 killed in catastrophic flooding in Nigeria
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered 12,000 metric tonnes of food items from Nigeria’s strategic reserve for communities affected by catastrophic flooding last week.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered 12,000 metric tonnes of food items from Nigeria’s strategic reserve for communities affected by catastrophic flooding last week.
Among the winners is SeaH4. The South African-based start-up offers a green energy service to the maritime sector in order to limit their dependence on fossil fuels near the sea.
Sources said that oil companies, oil bunkers, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPCL, and security officials jointly steal crude oil through the illicit pipeline connected to the trunk line through an abandoned pipeline by the Nigerians Agip Oil Company Limited, NAOCL, and linked to a location in the high sea, where they load crude oil into vessels and sell overseas.
El-Rufai said whatever the government manages turns out bad, and the sectors that are doing well, like entertainment, telecoms, fintech and others, have no government involvement.
This time, heads should roll. Corrupt, complicit, and negligent officials and security personnel should be held responsible and visited with severe sanctions, including sackings.
NEITI has called for a just, fair and equitable energy transition that prioritises Nigeria’s national interest in the engagements and response to the global energy transition process.
The partnership will develop, finance, own and operate an initial 150MW of solar projects over the next three years.
According to her, industry advocacy groups like Oil Producers Trade Section (OPTS) in Nigeria were a useful tool to help push a clear and harmonised set of standards for implementing ESG goals in African countries and working in tandem with the energy ministries.
The 4-kilometre (2.5-mile) connection from the Forcados export terminal, which typically exports around 250,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil, into the sea was found during a clamp-down on theft in the past six weeks.
In its Nigerian Capital Importation Report for the second quarter of 2022, inflows of foreign investments into the oil and gas industry, which stood at $68.6m (N30bn) in the first half of 2021, crashed to $2.5m (N1bn) in the first half of 2022, making it a 97 per cent drop.