Aldusar Gas Nigeria Limited has entered into a mutual agreement with the Katsina State Government and the state chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to provide cooking gas, cylinders and other equipment to civil servants. The workers are to repay for the items in three installments. The aim of the agreement is to discourage the…
Dr. Yasmine Fouad, the minister of the environment has held a press conference in the presence of Dr. Cristiana Paşca Palmer, the executive secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, in which the minister displayed there under the technical and logistic elaboration relevant to the Conference of Parties (COP 14), that will be…
The Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved funding for three proposals from the African Development Bank totaling over US$110 million. The approvals were granted at the GCF’s 21st Board Meeting held October 17 – 20 2018 in Manama, Bahrain. Overall, the GCF Board, which was co-chaired by Paul Oquist from Nicaragua, and…
President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigeria is too big and too diverse to blindly sign agreements without understanding the consequences of such actions. The president said this when he received representatives of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), led by its president, Babatunde Ruwase, at the presidential villa, Abuja, on Friday. Buhari used the…
The Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), an Upstream Subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has achieved a 100 per cent local content input in the development of Oredo Integrated Gas Handling Facility. NNPC Group Managing Director, Dr. Maikanti Baru, declared this Wednesday during a tour of the NPDC’s Oredo Flow Station, Oredo Gas-to-Pan-Ocean…
Shell’s Managing Director, Mr Osagie Okunbor, has said private participation is key to the issue of resolving the energy crises in Nigeria. Represented at the 2018 edition of the Nigeria Off-Grid Innovations and Summit in Lagos by the Managing Director, Shell Gas Nigeria, Mr Ed Ubong, Okunbor urged private sector operators to take a cue from…
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Prof. James Momoh, has confirmed the commitment of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) to bridge the metering gap in its jurisdiction over the next three years. Momoh, who spoke at the commissioning of the Customers Complaints Forum office in Lokoja yesterday, said the…
Amid the controversy over power distribution in the Ariaria market in Aba, Abia State, the Managing Director of Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Damilola Ogunbiyi, has disclosed that 4,000 shops in the market will be powered by the end of October. According to her, the current capacity on ground to commence with is two megawatts, but…
Lack of reliable data and paucity of funds may scuttle the dream of supplying electricity to rural communities across the country, the Rural Electrification Nigeria Agency (REA) Chief Executive Officer, Mrs Damilola Ogunbiyi, has said. She spoke during the week at the 2018 edition of the Nigeria Off-Grid Innovations and Summit in Lagos. She said…
The on-going debate on biotechnology and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has, in recent times, been given a new twist focused on the public posture of National Biosafety Agencies in both Ghana and Nigeria. The National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) of Nigeria and Ghana’s National Biosafety Authority (NBA) have been basically accused of reneging on their…
