Oil & Gas

Gas explosion in Delta Community, Ughelli, Ughelli North Local Government Area, which left six persons grievously injured, with properties worth millions destroyed, was alleged to have emanated from a leaking cylinder at a gas refill shop that clash with a naked flame from the akara seller. According to a source …

The President of the Senate, Senator Ahmed Lawan, and the Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe have asked President Muhhamadu Buhari to swear in the already screened board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Abaribe who made the call when the President sent the 2019/2020 budget for the Commission to …

Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Acting Executive Director Projects, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, had threatened contractors handling NDDC projects to mobilise back to site or be ready to face harsh consequences. Ojougboh, who gave the directive while addressing newsmen, said this had become necessary following President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s avowed commitment …

The Interim Executive Director of Project, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Cairo Ojougboh, has indicted unnamed serving senator involved in the screening of the NDDC board. READ ALSO: Limit NDDC Forensic Audit to Water Hyacinth Contract alone, APC National Vice Chairman tells Buhari According to him, the senator was behind 300 …

Akpabio is embarrassing South South APC leaders – Eta The National Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hillard Eta, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to limited the proposed Forensic audit of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) from inception till date to a controversial Water Hyacinth Contract alone, …

The forums of All Progressives Congress (APC) states’ chairmen in the South-East and the South-South have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently inaugurate the new board to superintend over the commission’s activities for a holistic review and reforms. The forums, in two statements made available in Abuja, also registered …

Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has called for the forensic audit of an interventionist organisations, the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF), while throwing its weight behind the decision by President Muhammadu Buhari to carry out a forensic audit of the accounts of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The group …

President Muhammadu Buhari ordered a forensic audit of the operations of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, over the incessant criticism of the interventionist agency. The President who made this order during the visit of the nine governors from the Niger Delta States to the President said “what is currently …

…urges Senate to confirm new board …As HOSCON tells critics to leave Okumagba alone A socio-political group, the Benin Movement for Change, BMC, has decried Chief Rita Lori-Ogbebor for calling on the Nigeria Senate not to confirm the appointment of Dr. Pius Odubu and Mr. Benard Okumagba as Chairman and …

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced the discovery of hydrocarbon deposits in the Kolmani River II Well on the Upper Benue Trough, Gongola Basin, in the North-Eastern part of the country, saying that a Drill Stem Test is currently on-going to confirm the commercial viability and flow of …