Youth from four local government area in Awka Ibom, playing host to Exxon Mobil, on Monday held a warning protest to demand the immediate relocation of the company’s headquarters to the state. The LGAs include Eket, Esit-Eket, Onna and Ibeno. The protesters blocked the gates of the company with coffins and other traditional items. Speaking... Read More
The federal government has instituted civil actions against multinational oil corporations- Shell, Chevron, Agip and other major oil companies- in a bid to recover over N2 trillion, believed to be proceeds of unremitted crude oil revenue. The scourge of crude oil theft has plagued the nation since the era of its oil boom, leading to... Read More
by Kolapo Olapoju Now we know its not only in Nigeria where we have billionaires in positions of power! America’s President Obama has some extremely rich people in his cabinet, but unlike Nigeria, most of them didn’t have to loot public funds to acquire their wealth. The top 5 richest members of Obama’s cabinet are... Read More
by Oke Efagene The historic vote in the Mexican Congress to open the country’s state-run oil industry to foreign investors for the first time in 70 years, was preceded by passionate debate, fisticuffs and worst of all, one legislator’s ‘striptease’. A member of the leftisit Democratic Revolution Party, Antonio Garcia Conejo, stripped down to his... Read More
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