SHELL FACTS AND FIGURES: N5.31TRILLION PAID TO FG IN 4YRS, NDDC N338B, COMMUNITIES N41B

The Shell Companies in Nigeria have released the April 2018 report on its activities and economic contribution to the country. The briefing notes revealed that $23 billion(N5.31 trillion) was paid to the federal government between 2013-2017,   $1.9 billion paid to the Niger Delta Development Commission(NDDC) since inception in 2002 while the oil bearing communities social […]

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FUPRE: A DREAM DELAYED OR DENIED? By Sunny Awhefeada.

  The Federal University of Petroleum Resources, (FUPRE), Effurun, Delta State was founded in 2007 and it caught news headline as Nigeria’s nay Africa’s first specialised university, dedicated to the study of petroleum resources. The idea of FUPRE was novel and many thought that in no distant time the university will take its place in […]

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FUPRE ZERO BUDGETARY ALLOCATION: OBORO TASKS HOUSE OF REPS. AS URHOBO LIBERATION FORCE THREATENS MAYHEM

The member representing Okpe, Sapele, Uvwie Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Evelyn Oboro has demanded for adequate budgetary provision for the Federal University of Petroleum Resources(FUPRE), Effurun in the 2018 appropriation bill in compliance with the FUPRE Act just as  Urhobo Liberation Force(ULF) threatens to cripple Oil and Gas facilities in Urhobo […]

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FUPRE BILL: SENATOR OMO-AGEGE LIED? IT IS MY “BRAIN CHILD” – HON. OBORO

The member representing Uvwie/Okpe/Sapele constituency in the Federal House of Representatives, Hon Evelyn Oboro, has said that the bill establishing the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun (FUPRE), Delta state and which was signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari recently, was her brain child. Hon Oboro, who played host to a delegation of various […]

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SENATOR OVIE OMO-AGEGE: WHERE ARE THE CONSTITUENCY PROJECTS? by Ejiro Olomu Torosu

With all honesty and humility, I thank Senator Ovie Omo-Agege for sponsoring the bill giving legal backing to FUPRE and the eventual passage of the bill into law. Though, there were claims and counter-claims as to how the politics of the bill was birthed, I give credence to the Obaisi for seeing that it gets […]

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