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This Day (Lagos)As part of its ongoing efforts to end graft in the administration of subsidy regime, the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Authority (PPPRA) has suspended Swiss-based oil firm, Nimex Petroleum, for failing to provide shipping documents.
Daily Trust (Abuja)The 44-member Senate Committee on Constitution Review will be considering requests for the creation of 46 new states from the different geo-political regions across the country.
Although sources within the National Assembly hinted that the Senate had received 62 requests from different ethnic groups, states, and other interest groups across the country, a document obtained yesterday by Daily Trust from the Senate put such requests at 46.
Vanguard (Lagos)The quest to produce a president of Igbo extraction has become a common feature in the build up to every Nigerian election season, and the year 2015 is not expected to be any different. Already, there have been calls by notable Igbos on the need for the South East political zone to produce the next President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra)Some unscrupulous Ghanaians resident in Nigeria are gradually denting the image of the country in the most populous African country. Like some of their Nigerian counterparts in Ghana who have gained bad press as a result of their nefarious activities, these Ghanaians have also resorted to criminal acts that are detrimental to the economy of Nigeria.
Daily Trust (Abuja)Lagos - Executive Secretary of the Major Oil Marketer Association of Nigeria (MOMAN), Obafemi Lawore, has said that his members will consider distributing petroleum products through rail in the country if the Nigerian Railway Corporation is privatized.
Leadership (Abuja)The Nigerian Export Import Bank was established basically to promote trade relations between Nigeria and other nations of the world considering Nigeria's rich natural resources. These resources have remained untapped since the discovery of crude oil in Nigeria despite initial warnings by some stakeholders that cocoa, groundnut, cattles etc which were the traditional produces should not be abandoned at any point. Petrol or 'black gold' as it was then referred to has become our major headache that if not well harnessed has the capacity of splitting the country into fragments that we can not count.
Daily Trust (Abuja)Lagos - Shell said it paid the Federal Government $46 billion (N7.2 trillion) oil tax revenue in four years from 2007 to 2011.
The company's briefing notes obtained by our correspondent states that Shell Petroleum Development Company paid about $38 billion as tax and royalty, while its offshore arm, Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company paid $6 billion during the same period.
Daily Trust (Abuja)Electricity supply in the country would improve in the next two mounts, Power Minister Professor Barth Nnaji, said yesterday in Abuja.
Speaking at the ministerial platform organized to mark President Goodluck Jonathan's one year in office, Professor Nnaji said the despondency of the people was understandable given that successive governments had made promises that were never realized especially in the power sector.
Daily Trust (Abuja)Lagos - Energy, mining and construction sectors of the economy as well other organizations with heavy documents will heave a sigh of relief with 30 per cent reduction in the cost of controlling and managing their documents soon.
Daily Trust (Abuja)An oil company, Muthas Petroleum received payment of N1 billion in the fuel subsidy programme days before delivering the product to the Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), House of Representatives committee investigating fuel subsidy funds revealed yesterday.