ENVIRONMENT

States that have not benefited from medical facilities and infrastructure support from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and her partners in the ongoing intervention initiative have no cause to worry. The corporation’s Group Managing Director, Mallam Mele Kyari, stated that the National Oil Company’s coordinated support would eventually reach them, explaining that inhabitants of the concerned states are a ...

by Ben Ndubuwa…………. The lockdown measures appear to have been successful in lowering the spread of coronavirus infections in the extraction zones. However, there are strong indications that the existing environmental conditions in the Niger Delta have created the unfavourable conditions for the spread of the pandemic. Space for Change said that pre-existing problems of environmental pollution, oil spill and ...

by Musa Ibrahim………. The Chairman of Dangote Group of Companies, Alhaji Aloko Dangote, has move in to rescue Kano State from the ravaging coronavirus pandemic in the State. This rescue mission has lead to the hiring of 54gene Laboratory, one of the private health facility accredited by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to conduct 1,000 COVID-19 test per ...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and it’s partners Commence the construction of a permanent medical infrastructural facility in Yenagoa. The NNPC led Oil and Gas Industry Intervention Initiative on COVID-19 over the weekend began the third phase of their support programme with the ground breaking ceremony for a permanent Emergency and Infectious Diseases Hospital for the South-South Region in ...

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has donated Personal Protective Equipments(PPE) to Lagos State Government to support its efforts in the management of the Corona virus pandemic in the state. TT The items donated include 1000 units of face mask, 1000 units of protective boots, 1000 units of coverall protective gowns, 1000 units of hand gloves, 1000 units of disposable ...

by James Ikenna The ongoing efforts by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)-led Oil and Gas Sector coalition against COVID-19 was bolstered Thursday in Lagos with the handing over of six ambulances and medical consumables to the South West states. The donation which was presented by the Hon. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, on behalf of ...

The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has confirmed that the explosion that occurred yesterday, in Abule-Ado area of Lagos suburb was as a result of a truck that hit some gas cylinders in a gas processing plant. According to NNPC the gas plant was located near the Corporation’s System 2B pipeline’s right of way. No fewer than 17 persons is ...

……… Say Victim never visited their offices as Agip denys having an office in Banana Island…….. Argument and counter arguments have trail the news making round that the victim of the first case of Lagos n-COVID19 (Coronavirus) is or not an employee of Eni, (NAOC) the Italian Oil company in Nigeria.         However, an unsigned statement posted on NAOC website ...

There are strong indications that top Nigeria Iinvestors are pushing and lobbying the new administration to sell Kaduna and Warri Refineries by early next year as there are likelihood that both refineries will not meet the three month deadline set for the refineries by the new Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Director, Dr Emmanuel Ibe Kachukwu. ...