Cosatu has threatened to bring Cape Town to a halt as workers including teachers, nurses and municipal staff prepare to down tools on Wednesday to protest against the electricity price jump.

At the First Northern Agricultural Summit held at the Arewa House, Kaduna last Monday, the Chairman of the Northern Governors' Forum, Dr Muazu Babangida Aliyu unwittingly made a vital point when he literally called the bluff of the Niger Delta

Nigeria's leading indigenous engineering, construction and procurement (EPC) company, Nestoil Group, has signed a multi-billion naira deal with Exxon Mobil, to revamp Exxon Mobil tank farm.

Former Nigerian Permanent Representative to the United Nation, Alhaji Maitama Sule, had declared that the north has "benefit little," from the country's oil wealth, ever since petrol became the main revenue earner.

Senate yesterday bemoaned the country daily loss of $15 million to gas flaring, and announced plans to review the Gas Master Plan as proposed by the Ministry of Energy (Gas).

The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) of Nigeria Limited and telecommunications network, Globacom, will in a fortnight mark the first anniversary of the landmark business partnership at which Globacom will unveil an array of additional telecommunications solutions to the oil

STANDARD Chartered Bank in its strategic move to support Nigeria's Oil and Gas sector has structured a deal with eight other Nigerian banks to provide $220m bank debt financing priced at Libor plus 275 bps for the National Nigerian Petroleum

Adequate supply of cooking gas has been identified as the means to check desertification as it will minimise the rampant use of firewood in Nigeria, the Minister of State for Energy, Chief Emmanuel Olatunde Odesina, has disclosed.

As plausible, near-convincing and sympathetic as are submissions made by high ranking officials of this present government on whether or not Nigeria should handover the rich Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon, it is yet not in doubt, going by public international

Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), has warned Chevron against divesting its 60 per cent stake in Texaco, warning that the process was characterised by intrigues, rather than merit and technical competence.

I travelled to Akassa to conduct interviews with volunteers from the London-based agency: Voluntary Service Overseas, VSO. I had already conducted interviews with those undertaking tasks in the states of Niger, Kano, Cross River and Plateau.

UGANDA imported about 850 million litres of petroleum products worth $500m (sh820b) last year, the energy state minister has disclosed.

The promoters of the Mmamantswe Integrated Coal and Power Project have received interest from global independent power producers (IPPs) to jointly fulfil an Expression of Interest (EOIs) invitation from South Africa's Eskom for the supply of power totalling 2100 MW.

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group has pledged to work closely with the Rwanda Investment Group (RIG) to expedite the extraction of methane gas, from Lake Kivu.

What price for protecting Transnet from competition?

Four men were arrested by the Oshana police last week while fuelling their cars, drums and containers using a suspected stolen fuel card at Oneshila Service Station in Oshakati.

Burundi could become a leading oil and minerals exporter of the region following a protracted exploration and prospecting exercise kicked off by government recently.

CPIX will soon cease to exist. Almost no one seems to have noticed.

Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited (MPN), operator of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC/MPN joint ventures has said it has commenced operations in its East Area Natural Liquid Gas project.

The Senate Committee on Gas Resources yesterday vowed to review the Nigerian gas master plan as proposed by the energy ministry, expressing concerns that the country loses over $15 million daily on gas flaring.