Timipre Sylva

TAYO ELEGBEDE Nigerian oil sector spent $3.047 billion on marine vessels between 2014 and 2018, the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has confirmed. The Board disclosed that 73% of the total $3.047 billion was…

TAYO ELEGBEDE The Federal Government will on October 1, this year, roll out CNG/LPG retrofitted autogas stations nationwide. The Chairman of the Gas Expansion Programme, Mohammed Ibrahim, made this known at a stakeholders…

By TAYO ELEGBEDE Following the deregulation of the downstream oil sector and the recent removal of subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) known as petrol, the Ministry of Petroleum Resources has come out to say the Federal Government…

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr. Ya’u Usman Idris as the Director-General of Nigeria Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NNRC). Minister of State for Petroleum (HMSP) Timipre Sylva announced the appointment of Dr.…

When OPEC ministers descend on Vienna to decide oil production policy, their meetings are usually accompanied by displays of brotherhood between the men in charge of a third of global crude supplies. This time, as the world battles a…

Chief Timipre Sylva, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, says a review of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) is at an advanced stage and full passage of the bill is expected mid-2020. Sylva made the announcement on Wednesday, in a…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday departed Abuja for Sochi, Russia, to attend a three-day Russia-Africa Summit holding from October 23 to 25. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that before leaving the presidential villa for onward…

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, says Nigeria must bring down the cost of production of its crude oil as the country is currently a laughing stock in the way it runs business in the oil and gas sector. He…

Former Governor of  Bayelsa State and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in the state, Chief Timipre Sylva, has denied leaving the party for the Peoples Democratic Party. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Sylva governed…

Bayelsa State Governor, Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson, has described the recent claim by the Minister of State for Agriculture, Mr. Heineken Lokpobiri, that the state government owes N800 billion, as “pathetic and manifestation of a mind…