A federal jury in Miami yesterday convicted the son of onetime Liberian leader Charles Taylor in the first test of an American law that gives prosecutors the power to bring charges for acts of torture committed in foreign lands.

NAMIBIA's ban on the media and observers from an ivory auction sanctioned by the United Nations Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) is indicative of the obfuscation and hypocrisy surrounding elephant conservation and exploitation.

Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has regretted the lack of security in the Niger Delta which it says has made it difficult to conceive and smoothly implement programmes that would make life more meaningful for the people

UGANDA will be 450 megawatts richer in power if its geo-thermal sites are fully developed, the permanent secretary in the energy ministry has said.

Oil firms on Thursday dropped oil prices by Sh5 only a day after the Government announced plans to re-introduce price controls in the sector.

Nigeria may have complied with the decision of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) on production cut as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) yesterday directed that cargoes in November and December lifting programmes be reduced by five percent.

Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has complained that the Federal Government still owe its members about N12 billion due on equalisation fund.

Hard as it is to admit, our Federal Government appears confused, without any discernible direction and, as if these were not enough, indulges in strategic self-delusion and hypocrisy.

Delta Oil Producing Ethnic Alliance, a pressure group which staged a peaceful protest at the State House of Assembly three days ago said it is already preparing a private bill seeking for the amendment of the Delta State Oil Producing

Mahulu primary school in Makete is now electrified following a Sh10 million donation by the Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA).

Energy and Minerals minister William Ngeleja has backed the move by energy regulatory agency Ewura to regulate pump prices if oil companies fail to adjust prices to the steep fall in world market prices.

The current downward trend of the oil price may, any way, discourage the investment either in research or in development of the new oil fields, said Thursday in Luanda, the Oil minister, Botelho de Vasconcelos.

It sounds strange that the price of crude oil stood at $27 a barrel in 2000.

An explosion was said to have occurred yesterday, which almost disrupted activities at the Ejigbo depot of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in Lagos.

SEVERAL local airlines have been hit hard by the steep drop in oil prices over the past three months, losing heavily on fuel hedges taken out as oil marched relentlessly to a record $147 a barrel in July.

If the oil is not going to benefit Ghanaians then it must stay under the ground," Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom, Presidential Candidate of the Convention People's Party (CPP) said at the first Election 2008 Presidential Debate.

Senate yesterday approved N324.1billion for the execution of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's emergency programme on power.

The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) has presented a booklet on how the oil windfall should be managed by the Federal Government to sustain the economy.

The Niger Delta Region is an area of more than 28000 square kilometers of mangrove swamps and meandering waterways, which stretches for over 300 miles from the Benin River in the West to the Cross River in the East. Discussions

The Federal Government on Thursday announced a five percent cut from Nigeria's two million barrels per day average production capacity (about 100,000 barrels) in compliance with last week's directive by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).