The Federal Government has approved an upward review of the matching grants of state governments for infrastructural projects under the Universal Basic Education (UBE) to N3.5 billion. The Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr Hamid Bobboyi said this on Thursday at a 5-day financial training for SUBEB Chairmen and Board Secretaries in Ibadan.Bobboyi…
Oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited has confirmed a spill on its Trans Niger Pipeline in Elelenwo in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. The company, however, said the spill resulting from a leak on the pipeline has been contained and repairs completed. Recall that some residents of Rumuoduwere community in…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited says it has flagged off the third edition of its Vision First Programme, as part of comprehensive community-focused healthcare outreach targeted at the Ilaje community and its environs in Bariga, Lagos State. A statement by the NNPC spokesman, Olufemi Soneye, stated that the Vision First programme is a continuation…
The Arewa Youth Assembly has clashed with the Coalition of Northern Youths Organization over the call made to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to sack Engr. Farouk Ahmed, Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, NMDPRA.Following the reports of the importation of toxic fuel into country, the Coalition of Northern Youths…
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), Hon. Ekperikpe Ekpo, has said he would invite regulatory agencies and producers of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) popularly known as cooking gas to address the current soaring prices of the product in the country. This was just as the federal government through the Decade of Gas Secretariat…
Nigeria’s Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Tunji Alausa, announced that the Federal Government has approved a 50% electricity subsidy for According to him, this gesture aims to reduce the running costs for public hospitals and alleviate the impact on patients.The Minister, speaking at the National Neo-Psychiatric Hospital in Barnawa, Kaduna, also…
NIPCO Gas has, in partnership with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Gas Marketing Limited, unveiled the Lekki Gas Distribution Project and the Lekki Power Plant. NIPCO Gas entered into a partnership with the NGML for the supply and distribution of natural gas in the Lekki Gas Distribution Area in June 2022. Subsequently, the NGML-NIPCO Gas…
The acting Managing Director of the Eko Electricity Distribution Company, Mrs Rekhiat Momoh, disclosed that the company was being owed N144 billion by ministries, departments and agencies in its area of operation. Momoh announced this on Tuesday when the House of Representatives Committee on Privatisation and Commercialisation visited the company in Lagos. According to Momoh,…
Against the backdrop of escalating cost of doing business oil marketers have started pushing for a reduction in the pump price of diesel to N700 per litre to help improve the distribution of petroleum products across the country.The President of the Natural Oil and Gas Suppliers Association of Nigeria (NOGASA), Mr. Benneth Korie Doi, yesterday in…
No fewer than 72 illegal crude oil refining sites were uncovered in the past week, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited disclosed in a video report. The 72 illegal refineries were reportedly discovered and destroyed in Rivers, Delta and Abia states. On August 18, a vessel was said to have been arrested by men of…
