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The long-awaited passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) will soon scale through as the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan has said that the bill would be passed into law this month. He made this known at the fourth edition of the Nigeria International Petroleum Summit (NIPS), in Abuja. Acccording to him,  the National Assembly was cautious to accommodate inputs from ...

With the passage of the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB), by the House of Representatives, on Wednesday, its Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to, as a matter of urgency, sign it into law. He made his appeal, on Thursday, on the heels of the passage of the legislation by the Senate last year. The same exhortation came just ...

The factional National President of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Chinedu Okonkwo, has called for synergy between the National Assembly and the association to device a process that would make fuel available to Nigerians. This, he said, was possible if all the bottlenecks preventing marketers from accessing foreign exchange to import the refined product into the country ...