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The National Assembly has shifted deliberations on the Petroleum Industry Bill to the first quarter of next year, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, has said. Speaking on the sidelines of the Joint…

       …As Buhari presents 2021 budget next weekThe Nigerian National Assembly Joint Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream), Petroleum Resources (Upstream) and Gas have reportedly had preliminary engagements with the Federal…

Nigeria’s minister of state petroleum resources, Mr Timipre Sylva, has warned Nigerians to be wary of their fate as the days of oil are now numbered. Speaking in Abuja at an interactive meeting with the leadership of the National…

The leadership of the National Assembly said yesterday that the Ninth Assembly will break the jinx of not being able to pass the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) after several attempts. President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan and the Speaker…

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources, Upstream, Donald Omotayo Alasoadura, has said that Nigeria has lost no less than $10 billion revenue in the last 18 years due to obsolete laws in the sector. Alasoadura, the senator…

The Senate wednesday constituted an ad hoc committee to probe the allegation by the National Extractive Industries and Transparency Initiative (NEITI) that Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) failed to remit over N1 trillion to…