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ExxonMobil affiliate companies in Nigeria have announced the retirement of Udom Uko Inoyo, Vice Chairman & Management External Advisor, Upstream Nigeria, from the Company after more than 30 years of meritorious service, with effect from May 1, 2020. Announcing the retirement, the Chairman/Managing Director of ExxonMobil Companies in Nigeria, Paul McGrath, stated that Mr. Inoyo’s career with Mobil Producing Nigeria ...

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) said it has suspended the planned strike by its members following the release of its members who were arrested by the Rivers State government for violating the lockdown executive order in the State. According to PENGASSAN, members of the Association were instructed to withdraw all forms of services relating ...

The Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN) has elected Mr. Nik Odinuwe, the Executive Chairman of Global Lifting Services Nigeria Limited. He succeeds Mr. Bank-Athony Okoroafor who led the Association recently to a great outing in the just concluded Sub-Saharan African International Petroleum Conference (SAIPEC) held in Lagos. He emerged as the new chairman at the just-concluded annual general meeting, ...

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. ...

Yakubu Dogara, the newly elected Speaker of the House of Representatives has written to President Muhammadu Buhari. He wrote to inform the president of his emergence as the Speaker and Olasunkanmi Sulaiman as the Deputy Speaker, The Nation reports. Dogara also officially notified the Senate President, Bukola Saraki of the development. The letter was read on the floor of the ...

The chairman of Industrial Global Union Africa Region, Comrade Issa Aremu, has said that with the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari on May 29 after his victory, it was now time for the current administration to start work. The union leader who is also an ex-vice president of the Nigerian Labour Congress said that the president needs to hit the ...

By Kingsley Fanwo Minister for Labour and Productivity, Barr. James Enejo Ocholi, SAN, has moved to reconcile aggrieved leaders of the party with a bid to resolving the political impasse threatening the party. Ocholi who recently convened a meeting of party elders in the state in Abuja recently, harped on the need for reconciliation in order to move the state ...