Ordinarily, with the kick-off of political campaign for the 2019 General Elections, the citizenry should be inundated with issue based politicking aimed at addressing the failures of time past and
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Niger Delta: Saving the Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs
December 18, 2018 No Comment 86 ViewsCommunities in living in oil producing areas of the Niger Delta region seem to be least impacted by the wealth that comes from there. This anomaly has gone unchecked over the last four decades
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Nigerian’s Niger-Delta: A Region in Abundance, A Region in Crises
December 18, 2018 No Comment 69 ViewsEven with huge petroleum revenue from the Niger-Delta region of Nigeria, it is still host to the poorest of people. According to findings by the Natural Resource Charter Benchmarking Exercise, the
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Resource Management in the Nigerian Petroleum Sector
December 18, 2018 No Comment 20 ViewsWhatever may be the resource a country is endowed by nature, management of revenue accrued from its tapping decides the rate of growth and development of that nation or otherwise. This was the
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NNRC Framework as a Tool for Effective Resource Management
December 18, 2018 No Comment 68 ViewsThe need to ensure Nigerians get the maximum benefits from its oil and gas resources is the motivation behind the Nigeria Natural Resource Charter framework for policy formulation. Tengi George
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African Development Bank flies into stormy weather
October 23, 2018 No Comment 33 ViewsTHREE years into the current dispensation at the African Development Bank (AfDB), there are concerns over the new direction the institution is charting and the contribution of the much-hyped High 5s
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The Growing Aid Distrust
October 18, 2018 No Comment 27 ViewsTHE aid industry is booming. In the last few years, several billions of dollars have poured into Africa from well-meaning individuals, organisations and governments that set out to make a difference
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Blazing the trail
August 30, 2018 No Comment 36 ViewsKenya beats all odds to become the first East African nation to export oil kenya’s ambition to become one of the global oil producers was boosted following the flagging off of the first barrels of
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Ouch!
August 30, 2018 No Comment 43 ViewsAbout three billion people are said to lack clean cooking fuel. But what is to be done? global leaders must have a rethink on energy poverty to save around three billion people using unclean fuels
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Africa’s largest solar farms
August 30, 2018 No Comment 35 ViewsAfrican governments are connecting local communities to green energy to power their homes and businesses Africa is diversifying its energy sources by going green and investing in solar farms some of
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