National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has laid to rest the leadership crisis rocking the party in Delta state. This followed the Tuesday night meeting in Abuja with leaders of the two factions of the party which have been on each other jugular for the past one year […]
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Dr Ibe Kachikwu, Minister of State for Petroleum said that the Federal government would pay the 5.1 billion dollars Joint Venture Cash Call arrears owed International Oil Companies, IOC, within a five-year time frame. The Minister gave the assurance at inaugural meeting of the National Council for Hydrocarbon in Abuja on Tuesday. He said the […]
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The Niger Delta militant group, the Niger Delta Avengers(NDA) said on Sunday the continued presence of the Nigerian military in the Niger Delta region was the immediate trigger for the recent attacks on oil and gas facilities. The Avengers spoke out days after the oil minister, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, urged militants to stop further attacks. Kachikwu’s […]
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The Federal Government says it is developing a creative and innovative gas policy as well as regulatory frameworks to meet the aspirations of the Nigerian people and prospective investors. The Minster of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, said this at the Powering Africa Conference in Abuja on Friday. Kachikwu, who was represented by […]
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Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, has said that it is not true that the Federal Government has abandoned the people of the Niger Delta region. The Minister made the clarification on Saturday in an interview at the end of the 2016 Convocation Ceremony of the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI), Effurun, in Delta state. […]
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The Federal Government delegation has met with some leaders and traditional rulers from the Niger Delta . The Monarchs and the leaders had on Friday set up a negotiation team to meet with the government on behalf of militants in the region . Thursday’s meeting between the Government and the Monarchs was held at the […]
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When Nigerian screamed and shouted to high heavens that President Muhammadu Buhari is on a Northern Agenda, many people thought we were just hating the President or opposing his candidatureship for opposition sake. “When Buhari first Northernised the Defence Sector with his appointment of Northerners into offices of National Security Adviser, Minister of Defence, Chief […]
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Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu recounted how he was threatened by a militant.The minister who was part of the attendees of the town hall meeting held in Kaduna spoke about how the attacks on oil installations were draining the country. He called for calm as he assured everyone that the Federal […]
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The huge decline in crude oil production largely occasioned by militant attacks in the Niger Delta has caused the country to lose at least N100.4bn in earnings in 13 days. Official reports indicate that the nation’s oil output has dropped by 800,000 barrels per day to 1.4 million bpd since May 16. The Minister of […]
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The minister of state for petroleum resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, Adams Oshiomhole, governor of Edo state, were among the government officials that on Wednesday met with stakeholders from the Niger Delta region over the resurgence of militancy. Addressing journalists at the end of the meeting, which held in Abuja, Kachikwu expressed the federal government’s readiness to […]
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