The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, said investor confidence is back in Nigeria’s oil sector. The Minister commended the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, NUPRC for changing the narrative in upstream activities by restoring confidence in line with the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), 2021, which he said is evident in…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has suspended its two-week warning strike. Chris Piwuna, president of ASUU, addressed the press on Wednesday after an overnight national executive council (NEC) meeting that ended at 4:00 am. ASUU had embarked on a warning strike on October 13 over its dissatisfaction with the federal government’s response to…
DESPITE the appeal by the minister of State Petroleum Resources (Gas), Honourable Ekperikpe Ekpo, urging marketers, distributors, and all stakeholders along the LPG (cooking gas) value chain to desist from hoarding the product and refrain from exploiting consumers for profit, the product’s scarcity persist in Lagos, Abuja, Delta States, others. Besides, for the few available…
Shehu MohammedThe Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corp (FRSC), Shehu Mohammed The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has announced that it has upgraded its printing facility to deliver an average of 15,000 driver’s licences daily, with a target to clear all existing backlogs before the second week of November 2025. The Corps Marshal,…
First City Monument Bank (FCMB) has been selected as one of the Participating Financial Institutions (PFIs) for the implementation of the Community Contractors Finance Scheme, an initiative of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) in partnership with the Bank of Industry Limited (BoI). The scheme is designed to bridge the funding and skills…
The Federal Government, through the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, has projected an increase of approximately 600,000 barrels per day in Nigeria’s crude oil production, driven by a surge in new investments in the upstream sector. It stated that the additional output would come from the 28 Field Development Plans approved so far in 2025,…
October 17, 2025085 The EVP NNPCL, and Chevron leadership team members in a group photograph at Escravos Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), on Tuesday October 14, 2025, welcomed the Executive Vice President (EVP) Upstream, of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Udobong Ntia to its Escravos operations base for an official visit that underscored the strategic…
The Nigerian UPstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, NUPRC, says it has implemented series of transformative and regulatory interventions designed to reposition Nigeria’s upstream sector for competitiveness, resilience and sustainable growth, adding that through these efforts, the Commission is not only driving the rebound of the oil and gas industry, but also shaping Nigeria’slong-term energy future. The …
The ministry said it was profoundly saddened by the deep sense of national loss. A statement by the ministry said that Ambassador Ogidan died on Saturday 27th of September 2025 in Abuja in a brief illness. Until his unfortunate and painful passing, he was the Director in-charge of the West African Affairs Division (WAAD) in…
In line with its capacity building mandate, the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) is set to begin a comprehensive digitalization training programme targeting 3,700 youths across the country. In a statement, the General Manager, Corporate Communications, Obinna Ezeobi, PhD said theinitiative, which is under the banner of the NCDMB Digitalization Initiative (NDI), is…
