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Edo, Delta communities urge Seplat to end gas flaring, employ youths
Host communities of Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc in Edo and Delta States have urged the company to gradually put an end to gas flaring to reduce the health implications on residents around the installations and environs.
Host communities demand end to gas flaring
The Oben Communities of Orhionmwon Local Government Area, Edo State have demanded an end to gas flaring by Oil and Gas Producing Companies in the area.
Traditional ruler charges Seplat to increase investments in host communities
A traditional ruler in Edo, King Odoligie Ogiemwonyi, has charged the management of Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc., to increase investments in the host communities of the company, to make life worth living for citizens.
DPR: Network code will address gas infrastructure development
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) says the recently-inaugurated Nigerian Gas Transportation Network Code (NGTCN) will address gas infrastructure development in the country.
Benin chamber, Edo government revive trade fair
The Fair holds at the Trade Fair Permanent Site, Aerodrome Close, Off Goodwill Street, Off Ekehuan Road, Benin City, and would attract local and international businesses to stimulate commerce as well as local, bilateral and multilateral business collaborations in the state.
Youths protest as sisters die in Benin road accident
Tension rose in Benin on Saturday morning as a BMW sedan 5 series car overrun and killed four sisters at Uselu along Lagos-Benin road, Benin city.
Governor Obaseki: I cannot continue Adams Oshiomhole’s bad policies
Chief of Staff to Governor Godwin Obaseki, Chief Taiwo Akerele, has picked holes in comments by some supporters of Governor Adams Oshiomhole that the Governor did not continue with projects and policies of his predecessor.
Two senior NSCDC officers abducted in Edo
Two senior officers of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), were yesterday, abducted in Edo State by gunmen suspected to kidnappers.
Edo governor congratulates President Buhari on tribunal victory
Mr. Godwin Obaseki, Edo State governor, has congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari on his victory at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, describing the verdict of the tribunal as well-deserved.
Seplat grows profit by 15.6% to N37b in H1
Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc sustained its growth trajectory in the first half as pre-tax profit rose by 15 per cent to N37 billion, equivalent to $121 million.
NNPC chief inaugurates $60 million Egbaoma gas plant in Delta
The Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Maikanti Baru, Saturday inaugurated Egbaoma Gas Processing Plant (EGPP), which cost a whopping sum of $60 million.
Federal government, NNPC committed to gas-based industrialisation
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said it was committed to pursuing the federal government’s aspiration of aggressively deploying the nation’s vast gas resources for economic growth.
Ibe Kachikwu, Maikanti Baru advocate gas economy for Nigeria
Dr Maikanti Baru, Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporate (NNPC) and Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu said the huge gas deposit in the country was a veritable tool for economic diversification.
Amnesty: Indonesian police kill dozens ahead of Asian Games
Indonesian police have shot dead more than 70 people this year in a crackdown on petty criminals ahead of the Asian Games, which are due to start this weekend, a human rights group said on Friday.
Indonesia quake death toll tops 400 as more bodies recovered
"Search and rescue teams are still removing victims who were buried beneath collapsed buildings and landslides," said national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.
NNPC to inaugurate 614km AKK gas pipeline project
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said arrangements were underway for the historic groundbreaking of the 40inch x 614km Ajaokuta-Kaduna–Kano (AKK) gas pipeline and stations.
PDP sponsors bill to stop open grazing in Edo
Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has explained that it was due to its concern for the well-being and security of lives of people of the state that motivated its sponsor of a bill for the prohibition of open grazing in the state.
Fuel scarcity: We have enough petrol – NNPC
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, on Thursday in Abuja urged motorists not to engage in panic buying of any petroleum products.
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