President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to start a process that would try those involved shady oil deals in the country. The President made this known on Sunday during a meeting with President Xi Jinping of China at the 70th General Assembly of the United Nations in the United States. He further said that all those…
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Nigeria Needs More Refineries—NNPC Boss
**Kaduna Refinery Begins Production December Production of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, commonly called petrol is scheduled to commence at the Kaduna Refinery by December 2015, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has said. This was disclosed in a statement issued in Abuja by the Group Managing Director of NNPC, Ibe Kachikwu. The NNPC boss, during…
Buhari Appoints Kachikwu As NNPC Boss
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Dr Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu as the new head of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC. Until now, Kachikwu was the Executive Vice Chairman of ExxonMobil Africa. He is to take over the leadership of the country’s petroleum body from Joseph Darwa. Kachikwu is a trained lawyer and publisher of the…
Bomb Explosion In Kano
An explosive device has gone off in Kano, SaharaReporters reports. The bomb blast happened near a filling station in Kano, the online news medium added. It occurred on Friday evening just when some residents of the city were returning from the day’s activities. It was gathered that the incident took place along Maiduguri road, opposite…
MEND Claims Responsibility For Rivers Refinery Explosion
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, on Monday, said it was responsibility for the explosion at the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Jetty in Okrika, Rivers State, on Sunday. Some people died in the blast while several others were injured. In a statement posted online on Monday and signed by its spokesman,…