Wabote: Over $50bn Oil Industry Projects Unveiled at Oil, Gas Fair FG: Nigeria’s oil sector still dominated by foreigners despite govt’s efforts NEPL targets 60 additional oil wells by 2024 Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja and Olusegun Samuel in Yenagoa
Oil and gas investment opportunities valued over $50 billion and projected to be developed within five years
were showcased by international and indigenous companies at the 2023 Nigerian Oil and Gas Opportunity
Fair (NOGOF) organised by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB)
in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, that ended last Friday. Speaking at the conclusion of
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Onaiyekan Backs Call for Live Broadcast of Presidential Tribunal Proceedings Chuks Okocha and Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja
Catholic Bishop Emeritus of
Abuja Archdiocese, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, yesterday, joined the call for live broadcast of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal
proceedings, saying it should not be “like a secret meeting”. Onaiyekan spoke in Abuja during an interview with journalists after
a mass to mark the end of the 57th annual World Communication Week. He said the voters needed to follow up on how their votes were being
defended. 29 handover. The priest admonished journalists He called on judges of the to give voice to all groups, as they covered the activities for the May Continued on page 6
Seven African Presidents Join Buhari to Open Dangote Refinery, Continent’s Game Changer 650,000bpd facility to alter international energy landscape, end petrol smuggling in Nigeria Tinubu, Emefiele, governors, ministers, top business leaders to witness epoch event Refinery, a significant achievement for Africa, Adeleke declares Oramah: Afreximbank proud as its largest financier Rewane: Refinery will strengthen Nigeria’s macro-economic stability Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja, Peter Uzoho, Dike Onwuamaeze in Lagos, Yinka Kolawole in Osogbo Lagos, Nigeria's commercial nerve centre, will today play host to many oil and gas industry heavyweights who would be arriving the city from different parts of the world to witness the inauguration of the world's largest single-train refinery, a 650,000 barrels per day facility built by Africa's richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote. THISDAY learnt yesterday that the refinery, which will be inaugurated by President Muhammadu Buhari and seven African presidents, would alter the international energy landscape and try to sanitise the country's petroleum sector by ending the smuggling of imported petrol Continued on page 6
THE DANGOTE REFINERY…YESTERDAY
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