Petroleum Industry Bill

Anthony Iwuoma The Niger Delta Congress (NDC) has said that it was scandalised by the recently passed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), describing it as ‘extension of laws to exploit Niger Delta region’. In a statement by its acting…

Senate President Ahmad Lawan has said that the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva and the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kyari, would tomorrow brief Senators in a…

Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has urged members of the National Assembly, to see the challenges in the petroleum industry as beyond northern issues but as challenges confronting Nigeria as a whole. Governorr Sule made the…

As the Joint Committee on Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) tours the country for stakeholders' inputs, Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State, has tasked the National Assembly to handle related issues to the bill with circumspection to avoid…

Senate President Ahmad Lawan has said that the upper chamber will next Tuesday suspend plenary after consideration of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) to enable Committees commence defence of the 2021 budget estimates by Ministries,…

The Senate will, on Tuesday, October 20, 2020, debate the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) forwarded by President Muhammadu Buhari to the National Assembly, last week. The disclosure was made in an announcement by Senate President Ahmad…

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, transmitted the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) to the Senate. READ ALSO: https://www.thexpressng.com/2020/09/29/igp-adamu-promises-hitch-free-election-in-ondo/ Senate President Ahmad Lawan read…

Senate President Ahmad Lawan has said the Ninth National Assembly will do things differently to break the jinx with the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) next year. The upper chamber, according to Lawan, will as a matter of…