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Nigeria bans documentary film on oil corruption, warns director agains...

April 18, 2013 no comments

Nigeria’s government has banned a film, “Fuelling Poverty,” a documentary that sheds a harsh light on the corruption in the nation’s management of oil wealth, the Committee to...

“We can no longer waste resources” – Jonathan set to...

March 19, 2013 no comments

Fuel prices are set to spike again in Africa’s largest oil-producing nation. Speaking at a press conference in Lagos on Tuesday, President Goodluck Jonathan said the nation could no longer cont...

Farouk Lawan and Boniface Emenalo out on bail

February 8, 2013 no comments

Former lawmaker Farouk Lawan gets a reprieve from jail. The suspended chairman of the House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee on fuel subsidy management and his committee’s secretary Boniface...

President Jonathan still eager to remove fuel subsidy

November 16, 2012 no comments

His first attempt at it caused a nationwide protest and massive strike, but Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday revealed he has far from given up on his desire to put an end to fu...

All the world’s a stage; Jonathan says nationwide protest was st...

September 20, 2012 no comments

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan, in a candid lecture, has yet again responded to the nationwide strike and mass anti-subsidy removal protest that seized the country at the start of the ye...

$620,000 bribe scandal: AGF asks police to investigate further, clarif...

September 16, 2012 no comments

It is yet another wrench thrown in the $620,000 bribery allegation against suspended lawmaker, Mr Farouk Lawan. The office of the Attorney General of the Federation has reportedly handed back the inv...

Police special fraud unit investigating fresh N832 million oil subsidy...

August 25, 2012 no comments

Sahara Reporters – The Special Fraud Unit (SFU) of the Nigeria Police says it is investigating a scam by oil subsidy racketeers involving 7,000MT of PMS valued at N832m which was fraudulently d...

NUPENG members resume work at Apapa, Ijegbo depots

August 25, 2012 no comments

NAN – Members of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers of Nigeria have commenced full loading of petroleum products at Ejigbo and Apapa depots in Lagos. The News Agency of Nig...

Some indicted oil marketers already refunding subsidy claims – N...

August 24, 2012 no comments

It is payback time for indicted oil marketers as some of the 25 (recently updated from 21) oil firms indicted of subsidy fraud have begun to refund their ill-gotten gains. The controversial move by t...

Petroleum minister allays fuel scarcity fears

August 19, 2012 no comments

Web Wire – The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, has allayed fears that the nation could be thrown into another bout of fuel scarcity explaining that there is enough ...

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