By Peter Uzoho, This Day Newspaper Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), Mr. Gbenga Komolafe, has reassured that the advent of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) 2021 has completely nullified discretionary award of oil blocks to companies and individuals in the Nigerian oil and gas industry. Komolafe made the reassurance
PREAMBLE This paper is provoked by the sad discovery that a vast majority of Cross Riverians appear to have lost faith and or given up on the fact that, we are an oil-bearing state with all the potential to become an oil-producing state, if and when all the politics/issues holding us captive are addressed. Having
By Patrick Obia Connected Development (CODE) has commenced interface with chiefs and members of host oil-producing communities in Cross River State, mapping out abandoned and dilapidated projects. The Host Communities inspected are Efut Esighi, Esuk Mba, Esuk Mbat, Esuk Ikot Nsidung, Urua Iwan, Ekpene Ikot Okon Idem and Ekpene Ikot Okon Nsa, all in Bakassi
How a violent conflict in the resource-rich Niger Delta has wrought ecological and economic devastation for a generation. Listen to this story Play 00:00:0001:12:34 As the three women from Otuabagi tell it, the Niger Delta’s woes began with a simple yet consequential misunderstanding. The European engineers came to the village in 1956, four years before
By Arinze Chijioke, International Policy Digest Arinze Chijioke traveled to Opuama, a community in Nigeria’s Delta State, to report on the impact of an oil spill that had devastated many local families. The time was 10 am in late March. Over 60 women, old and young, gathered outside the house of 90-year-old Julius Loboh, the
By Itiunbe Atunka Dealers of petroleum products in northern Cross River are currently accusing the embattled factional leader of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Mr. Lawrence Agim as the mastermind behind the arrest and harassment of its members in Obudu local government area. Leaders of the Obudu/Obanliku chapter of the Petroleum Dealers And
By CrossRiverWatch Admim Chairman of the Association of Cross River Online Journalists (ACROJ) Mr. Edem Darlington has been appointed as member into the community interface committee of the Nigerian Local Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB). The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board is building an oil and gas industrial park in Onim-Ankiong community in