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  • Yuletide: Enugu DisCo urges customers against vandalism

    The Enugu Electricity Distribution Plc (EEDC) has called on electricity consumers within its franchise area to be vigilant and ensure power installations serving them are protected from vandals this yuletide.

    Its Head of Communications, Mr. Emeka Ezeh, decried the rate at which power facilities were being vandalised across EEDC’s network, stressing that the menace was always high during the yuletide; and it is already being experienced. “No day passes without a case of vandalism recorded in three or more districts.”

    According to him, in recent times, millions of naira have been committed to replacing vandalised materials, a regular practice which has eaten deep into the company’s revenue. The effect of vandalism has untold consequences on electricity customers who depend on power to carry out their various business activities, as they are subjected to blackout and inconvenience before the material is replaced and supply restored.

    EEDC is, however, not relenting on its effort to reduce cases of vandalism through its strategic partnership with security agencies and vigilante groups. This collaboration is yielding positive result.

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    In some cases, investigations have led to the recovery of vandalised items from the residents of vandals. “These vandals are not spirits and do not operate in the air. They are human beings, our relatives, friends, neighbours and so on, who operate in the same environment.

    “We encourage you to say something once you see something. Report any suspicious movement around these power installations. Join hands with the EEDC to stop these vandals before they stop us” Ezeh added.

    In another development, Ezeh appealed to customers indebted to the company to pay their bills so they can enjoy supply during the yuletide, especially communities.

    “When customers pay their bills, we will be more efficient in our service delivery and that will translate to customer satisfaction”.

  • Lawmaker decries siting of LPG plants in residential areas

    By Musa Odoshimokhe

    House of Representatives member Hon. Kolawole Taiwo has said efforts are ongoing to initiate a bill to protect people from domestic hazards in view of the gas explosion that killed people in Lagos recently.

    Taiwo said some people were desperate to make profit by refilling liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) or cooking gas cylinders in residential areas.

    At a press conference in Lagos, he said the fire that claimed the lives of five residents of Ajegunle metropolis was due to failure to comply with precautions during gas filing.

    The lawmaker said the incident, which took place in his constituency, damaged property worth millions of naira, adding that it was due to indiscriminate establishment of gas plants. According to him, many hapless victims who sustained various degree of burns were receiving treatment in the hospitals and other health facilities.

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    He said no amount of succour could be given to the affected constituents if the issue was not holistically addressed. “It is good for us that people at the local level are now embracing gas as a cheaper, safer and cleaner means of cooking. The use of LPG reduces the unnecessary felling of trees for cooking which poses more harmful effect on climate change. This also reduces the pressure on kerosene, an important fuel for airplane.

    “However, gas is highly inflammable and our people demand for it is on the increase, so entrepreneurs now site mini-gas plants indiscriminately, across major cities of Nigeria, which poses grave danger to the locals.

    “I had to rush down here when I learnt about the development few days ago due to a barrage of calls from my constituents, and what I saw was disheartening.”

    He urged landlords to shun the pecuniary gains and consider safety when giving permission to site gas plants in residential areas, noting that even those corporate entities siting gas plants have them cordoned off in restricted areas with enough guard.

    Taiwo commended Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu for promptly wading into the matter, adding the governor promised to foot the hospital bills of the victims.

     

  • Axxela committed to West Africa’s industrialisation

    Axxela Limited, a gas and power portfolio company, has pledged commitment to West African sub-region’s industrialisation via the build out of its natural gas infrastructure.

    Speaking at the Ghana Gas Forum (GGF) in Accra, Ghana, Axxela Head of Sales and Marketing, Tunde Baba-Agba, said: “Natural gas is now highly regarded as a key resource of the energy sector, and a key component geared towards value creation for West Africa’s economies. We’re confident that our strategic initiatives and the expansion of our operational footprint particularly within the virtual pipeline, gas processing and distribution, and embedded power spaces will help unlock the vast potential within important economic clusters across the region.”

    A Helios Investment Partners LLP portfolio company, Axxela is a designated natural gas shipper on the West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP). The company is also the pioneering private sector-led developer of natural gas distribution in Nigeria, delivering at peak 80 million standard cubic feet per day to over 175 industrial and commercial customers via a vast network of gas infrastructure. With over 280km in gas pipeline infrastructure built, Axxela provides unique energy solutions primarily through its main subsidiaries – Gaslink Nigeria Limited, Gas Network Services Limited, and Central Horizon Gas Company Limited.

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    Addressing regional collaboration and integration, Head of the Executive Committee, The Gas Consortium, organisers of the event, Senam Gbeho, said: “By implementing the right policies and decision-making structures, the region’s gas resources can be the catalyst that eliminates the continent’s distressing poverty levels. With the combined population and market size of the respective countries within the region, a real opportunity exists to collectively leverage existing gas resources, pursuant of industrialisation for economic transformation and social welfare.”

    Held annually, the Ghana Gas Forum is an indigenous knowledge resource suited to players in the natural gas industry with shared interests in policymaking and gas monetization efforts within Ghana and the sub-region. This year’s forum theme was ‘Promoting dynamic policymaking towards the optimization of regional gas resources’, with discourse centred on relevant gas policy issues that impact the sustainable development of the gas sector by promoting a cross-disciplinary understanding of policy tools and options.

     

  • Focus on gas development, Kyari tells PETAN

    The Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, has charged oil service operators, under the aegis of the Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN), to focus more on gas development. The event was PETAN’s 2019 Annual Clients’ Appreciation and Industry Achievement Awards Dinner held in Lagos, EMEKA UGWUANYI was there and reports.

     

    The Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, has advised members of the Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN) to focus more on gas development to support the Federal Government’s effort to reduce hazardous emission.

    Kyari, represented by the Chief Operating Officer (COO), Gas and Power, NNPC, Mr. Yusuf Usman, at PETAN’s 2019 Clients’ Appreciation and Industry Achievement Awards held in Lagos, said the use of gas for sustainable development has become paramount in policy formation in Africa.

    He said: “PETAN members should focus on gas development. We are a gas province as a country and there is need to develop gas because it is cheap, clean, environmentally friendly and affordable. We can help save the environment by substituting coal with gas, therefore, reducing emissions by half.”

    The Chairman of PETAN, Mr. Bank-Anthony Okoroafor, in his remarks, assured the NNPC chief and stakeholders that PETAN was committed to ensuring a sustainable environment for business.

    “PETAN remains committed to partnering with all stakeholders to create enabling environment for investment to thrive. PETAN was formed to utilise the technical know-how that abounds in the oil and gas industry by Nigerians as a springboard for economic change and technological advancement of our nation.

    “This we have been pursuing since 1990. It was in 2010 that PETAN developed a 4Cs strategic plan-Capacity building,w Capitalisation, Collaboration and Consolidation, to identify and leverage capacity gaps from the Local Content Act, consolidate and expand end-to-end capacities across the value chain.”

    He said PETAN would be 30 years in March 2020 and invited the audience to celebrate the milestone with PETAN in grand style.

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    “I will be inviting the industry to celebrate with us in working with the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and the National Assembly to increase retained earnings from five per cent to more than 27 per cent; to increase equipment ownership, drilling rigs, cementing, simulation and wellheads, among others to more than 90 per cent,” he added.

    Okoroafor noted that PETAN would work to increase (indigenous) vessel ownership from less than 10 per cent to more than 40 per cent; fabrication tonnage from nothing to about 60,000 metric tonnes; iron processing, pipe-coating, pipe-laying, operation and maintenance, FPSO integration and engineering design, among others.

    He stated that this year’s award night theme: Oilfield of the Future: operational Excellence, is to re-emphasise the long-standing PETAN philosophy for the growth of the industry, which is professional excellence.

    “That was why we initiated a PETAN’s Seal of Quality to sanitise our operations and certify our people in particular and the industry in general. The process has fully commenced and a number of our members have been certified in conjunction with Bureau Veritas. In the last four years, my executive team have been working on getting a befitting secretariat, conferences and meeting venue for the association and for the use of the industry and stakeholders. As you are aware, there is no functioning facility that can be used for the industry events in Port Harcourt, the oil city of Nigeria where many of us began our career.

    “Graciously, the governor of Rivers State Nyesom Wike has provided us a location just by the Port Harcourt International Airport. We will be conducting the groundbreaking ceremony for the project first quarter of 2020. We urge all our partners to join us to deliver the best oil and gas museum for the country,” he said.

     

  • NBET/GenCos dispute may worsen power sector woes

    The decision by the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Company (NBET) to impose administrative charge of 0.75 per cent on power generation companies (GenCos) has raised some dust in the sector. The issue, if not addressed on time, could aggravate the sector’s woes, writes AKINOLA AJIBADE.

    Like a recurrent decimal, the problems in the electricity industry keep resonating as stakeholders, including the Federal Government, seem incapable of proffering solutions to them.

    For some time, the sector has been grappling with shortage of gas, poor generation, bad distribution networks, irregular supply of electricity, scarcity of meters, huge debts owed power distributors, among others, which have continued to stall its growth and that of the economy.

    The government seems helpless and unable to tackle the problems. Recently, the 24 generation companies (GenCos) declared their intention to shut down operation nationwide if the Federal Government failed to prevail on the Nigerian Electricity Trading Bulk Company (NBET) not to impose an administrative charge of 0.75 per cent on gas transactions conducted on their (GenCos’) behalf.

    Specifically, GenCos on September 21, announced its decision to shut down their power plants, with a view to driving home their points. Besides, the firms threatened to explore other options to force NBET to rescind its decision on the charge.

    To achieve this goal, GenCos, through their association, Association of Power Generation Companies(APGC), have written letters to the Office of the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, Minister of Power Mr. Saleh Mammah and other relevant agencies on the issue without achieving its goal.

    NBET was set up by the Federal Government to administer the electricity pool. Out of the the GenCos, six were unbundled from the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) in 2013. The firms are Geregu Power Plc, Afam Plc, Sapele Power Plc, Ughelli Power Plc, Kainji Hydro Electric and Shiroro Hydro Electric.

    Speaking on the issue, APGC Executive Secretary Dr. Joy Ogaji said the firms were planning to shut down their plants if the Federal Government failed to resolve the issue between them and the Nigerian Electricity Bulk Trading (NBET) Plc. The firms, she said, will shut down operation because they are not happy with the new policy of NBET.

    The policy, Ogaji said, directed all thermal plants operators to pay an administrative charge of 0.75 per cent on gas transactions. The charge on the GenCos and their inability to access the N600 billion intervention fund will put more pressure on them, she said.

    Prior to this, the three key operators in the sector have been recording dismal outputs. Not only this, they are struggling to promote efficiency as they are unable to provide the required capital for operation.

    Industry observers argue that operators depend on each ther for survival, adding that the problems in one segment of the value chain affects the entire industry.

     

    NBET position

     

    The decision to impose administrative charge of 0.75 per cent on power generation firms may not be unconnected with the debts owed by the companies.

    Industry sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said power firms owed gas suppliers a lot of money, adding that NBET transacts gas business on behalf of power generation firms. “NBET might be using 0.75 per cent administrative charge, which was imposed on electricity generation firms as a means of collecting debts from them,” the source said.

    Usurping regulatory roles

     

    The former Nigerian President, Association of International Energy Economist (AIEA), Prof. Wunmi Iledare, accused NBET of carrying out duties that are outside its purview. In an interview with The Nation on phone, he said NBET was assigned to administer electricity pool and not as a regulator.

    Iledare said: “NBET is not a regulatory body and as a result cannot directly or indirectly regulate the nation’s electricity market. The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) is the only body, which the constitution allows to play that role.  The electricity market is not fully matured.

    “Why are you imposing administrative charge on GenCos? When you put additional cost to a production, you are taking money away from that product. By so doing, you are not adding value to that product. According to him, NBET exists in order to remove anything that is assumed to be a problem in the sector not to create it, as it is currently being done through imposition of administrative charge.

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    Shortage of gas

     

    The pioneer Managing Director, Nigerian Liquefied and Natural Gas (NLNG), Dr Godswlll Ihetu, urged the Federal Government to ensure that gas is made available to the power sector in order to improve generation in the country. According to him, the sector is not enjoying gas due to some problems such as infrastructure and others.

    “Power plants are not accessing the product regularly due to infrastructural bottlenecks.  Pipeline vandalism is a problem, which the gas suppliers and users (power plants) are trying to cope with daily,” he added.

    The sector, Ihetu said, has had enough of gas shortage and should not be allowed to suffer more. He said the issue of imposing 0.75 per cent administrative charge on the power generation companies (GenCos) is another way of adding to the problems in the sector and should be strongly opposed by the Federal Government if the sector will develop and further assist Nigeria to grow its economy.

    Ihetu said: “The Federal Government, gas suppliers, owners of thermal plants and others that use the product for domestic growth should focus on how to enable access to gas adequately and not causing  impediments to the realisation of gas potentials in the country.”

    He said  the Federal Government set up the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) 30 years ago for export purpose, adding that not for electricity generation. He said foreign oil companies and their local counterparts are in charge of providing gas to thermal operators not the NLNG.

    According to him, the multinational oil companies and their local counterparts are trying their best in the area of providing gas for production of electricity, urging them to do more in order to solve the country’s electricity problem.

    An analyst, Meka Olowola said the roles of the power generation companies (GenCos) in sustaining production in the country are not well appreciated. He said GenCos generate electricity that is more than what the power distribution companies can take, urging stakeholders to try and improve the firms’ growth and not what will slow down the growth.

     

  • PETAN holds appreciation, achievement awards dinner Friday

    Our Reporter

    The Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN) will hold its annual 2019 clients’ appreciation and industry achievement awards dinner Friday, 29th November, at the Eko Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos by 6:30pm.
    PETAN’s Publicity Secretary, Ranti Omole, said the theme of this year and 14th oil industry achievement award ceremony is “The oilfield of the future: Operational excellence”.

    The event provides a unique platform for close interaction between leading Nigerian oil service companies, senior executives of international oil companies (IOCs), government policy makers and top political leaders to share ideas on the Nigerian oil industry in a relaxed and conducive atmosphere.

    The Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, will be the special guest of honour and many IOCs, CEOs and captains in the industry have all confirmed their attendance to this event.

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    PETAN is made up of Nigerian indigenous oilfield service companies and was founded to utilize the technical know-how acquired in the oil and gas industry by Nigerians as a springboard for economic and technological advancement.

    PETAN companies employ over 20,000 engineers and other technical personnel with a direct employment of about 80,000 people. PETAN companies also offer 250 distinct technical services to the Nigerian oil industry and many of these companies now parade similar services in Mauritania, Ghana, Cameroun, Equitorial Guinea, Congo, Gabon, Chad, Angola, South Africa, the Middle East, South East Asia and the United States.

  • TotalPrenuers programme graduates 60 youths

    As part of its contribution to the development of the economy, Total Upstream Companies in Nigeria through its TotalPrenuers programme has trained fresh 60 young Nigerians in various vocations, writes EMEKA UGWUANYI.

     

    Total Upstream Companies in Nigeria has just trained no fewer than 60 young Nigerians that graduated from its TotalPrenuers programme in agriculture and vocational skills in Osun State.

    The youth selected from across the nation were the fourth batch of the Total upstream graduating students that were trained in agriculture and vocation skills.

    The 60 young Nigerians were trained under a programme tagged “TOTAL premiere at OFFERcentre institute of Agriculture, Oluponna in Iwo Local Government Area of Osun State in which 30 students were trained in agriculture and 30 students were trained  in vocational skills.

    Speaking at the graduation ceremony, the Managing Director, Total Upstream Companies in Nigeria, Mr Mike Sangster, said the youth were drawn from all the six geo-political zones in the country for the training.

    Sangster, who was represented by the Executive General Manager, CSR and Medical Services, Mr Vincent Nnadi, said under the agriculture programme,  30  youths  were trained in fish farming,  animal husbandry,  pottery and  crop production, among others. He said the remaining 30 were trained in catering and hotel management, event management, photography, arts and crafts, among others.

    Sangster said the youth also received training in entrepreneurship, business management, computer appreciation, accounting and marketing, among others. The Total boss said the company had trained over 240 youths at the institute with more than N100 million invested in the training.

    According to him, Total came to OFFERcentre in 2016 and since then had invested over N100 million in partnership with OFFERcentre.

    “And by this, we have transformed 240 young men and women from being applicants and job seekers to entrepreneurs and employers of labour,” Sangster said.

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    He said the training of the youth was in furtherance of Total Corporate Social Responsibility as part of the company’s deep water operations.

    He added that Total would monitor the youth, adding that the successful ones among them will receive further support from Total to help grow their businesses.

    In his remarks, the Rector of the institute, Rev Macarius Olatunji, said the youth were the fourth set to be graduating from the centre since inception in 2016.

    Olatunji said the 60 graduating youths brought the total number of trained youths to 240 since inception. “You have trained 240 youths in four years. Don’t look at it as a small number in relative terms. But this will create the needed ripple of entrepreneurs not just from the direct beneficiaries but also other companies whom you have inspired,” Olatunji said.

    He said the training given to the youth was enough to take them out of poverty, urging them to embrace self-employment. The Rector said the graduating youths comprise of 31 females and 29 males.

    He said the youth were taken through the totality of agribusiness as well as catering, hospitality and crafts for three months.

    “OFFERcentre Institute of Agriculture is not a conventional school but rather a centre of creativity and innovation, borne out of the need to order solutions to some of our challenges as a people”, Olatunji said.

    In his remarks, the Governor of Osun State, Gboyega Oyetola, urged the youth to utilise the training they have received to benefit themselves. Oyetola, who was represented by the Director-General of Osun Agricultural Development Programme, Mrs Gbemisola Fajorin, said his administration would continue to make agriculture a priority.

    Some of the graduating youths who spoke with newsmen expressed their gratitude to Total and OFFERcentre for the opportunity given to them. One of the graduating students, Miss Gladness Eigbe, who was trained in catering and hospitality, said the training she received was enough to see her through in her business. Eigbe, a native of Edo State and a graduate of Economics, said she was ready to be an employer of labour and not a job seeker.

    Also, Mr Martin’s Numbe, another trainee, said he was eager to start his agriculture business to develop his future. The youths were given starters-pack to start up their business at the end of the ceremony.

     

     

  • Collaboration key to oil, gas growth, says Jeon

    By Akinola Ajibade

    Operators in the upstream, midstream and downstream of the nation’s oil and gas industry should try and synergise their activities to achieve growth, the Managing Director, Shipbuilder, Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI), Mr. Jejin Jeon, has said.

    He spoke at the Nigeria-South Korea Business Forum held in Lagos. The forum was at the instance of the Korea Trade Investment Promotion Agency (KOTAR), an agency of Korean Government. While delivering a paper entitled: Sustainable business for economic development: An overview of oil and gas industry in Nigeria, Jeon said that synergy between Samsung Heavy Industries and major operators in the Nigerian oil and gas industry has resulted in  the construction of Egina Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) facility.

    He advised other operators to follow suit. He said the facility, which was shipped to Nigeria sometimes ago produces 200,000 barrels of crude per day, adding that the facility produces about 10 per cent of the country’s oil production.

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    Jeon said: “The FPSO was made possible by the construction of fabrication and integration yard in Lagos. Egina FPSO is a flagship of oil and gas project spearheaded by Total, one of the oil majors operating in the country.”

    According to him, collaboration between Samsung and Total, a French oil firm, has brought about the idea of building FPSO, providing a considerable revenue for Nigeria, building skills as the project has created employment opportunities for Nigerians, among others.

    He advised foreign conglomerates, that are planning to invest in the Nigerian economy to attach considerable importance to three issues namely environment, regulation and partnering, adding that by so doing they would be able to play well in Nigeria.

     

  • Sahara Power Group trains 38 engineers

    Thirty-eight young engineers comprising 29 males and nine females have graduated from the 2019 Sahara Graduate Engineering Programme (GEP).

    The GEP is an annual capacity building initiative of Sahara Power Group through its arms – Egbin Power Plc and First Independent Power Limited (FIPL) in collaboration with the National Power Training Institute (NAPTIN), to close the manpower gap in the power sector.

    The new graduates, who were offered certificates during the graduation ceremony held in Lagos. According to the Group Managing Director of Sahara Power  Group, Mr. Kola Adesina, with the graduation of the 2019 batch, the total number of young engineers that have undergone the programme since its commencement in 2014 is 198.

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    Kola Adesina said the trainees were selected out of over 8,500 applicants after a very rigorous process, adding that they were chosen from various fields of engineering professions including electrical, chemical, electronic and mechanical.

    He said: “Over the past 12 months, they have embarked on intensive classroom training and hands-on activities across power generation, operations, distribution, transmission, electricity and commercial awareness.

    “These rigorous sessions were conducted by seasoned power experts, so I am confident that this foundation will empower our future power experts to transform the sector as they progress in their careers.”

    The Director-General of NAPTIN, Mr. Ahmed Nagode, said the GEP was a very important and fundamental programme in the career of a professional engineer in the power sector. “It is a programme that bridges the gap between academic qualification of BSC/HND in Electrical and Mechanical engineering and the skills required to operate on the power networks,” Nagode said.

  • NEITI, EFCC partner against oil industry corruption

    To plug the holes in the oil and gas industry, the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) and  Economic  and Financial Crimes Commission   have agreed  to collaborate to enhance  efficiency and achieve results, writes AMBROSE NNAJI.

     

    The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that would strengthen the partnership and cooperation between the two agencies in the fight against corruption.

    The MoU would focus more on identified financial crimes disclosed by the NEITI reports in the oil, gas and mining industries. It will also specify how NEITI and the EFCC would deal with such crimes expeditiously through information and intelligence sharing as well as human capacity mobilisation.

    These resolutions were part of the highlights of decisions reached at a meeting between the Executive Secretary of NEITI, Waziri Adio and the Chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu with top management teams of the two agencies.

    Speaking at the meeting, Adio, said implementation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in Nigeria would require the attention and support of the EFCC to implement effectively in the best interest of the Nigerian economy. He listed the emerging issues to include, beneficial ownership disclosure, contract transparency, commodity trading and oil theft.

    He said Beneficial Ownership disclosure seeks to provide information to the public on the real owners of businesses in Nigeria’s oil, gas and mining industries and requires the support of the EFCC towards its implementation. This, he explained, was in view of the strong connection between disclosure of the beneficial owners of companies and financial crimes such as money laundering, tax evasion and terrorism financing.

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    Adio called on the EFCC Chairman to work with NEITI as the agency’s legitimate interest in deepening transparency in these areas was as a result of the strong linkages between corruption in the nation’s extractive sector and sabotage of the economy. He, however, praised the EFCC Chairman and his team for their hard work, courage and a commitment, adding the result is the visible achievements so far recorded by the commission in the discharge of its assignments.

    Magu described NEITI and the EFCC as key partners in progress. He said the time to strengthen the partnership between the two agencies had become very urgent.

    The EFCC Chairman described the extractive industries as not only the main source of revenues to the economy but also source of corruption and financial crimes.

    He explained the EFCC had established a special unit to advise the commission on financial crimes arising from the NEITI reports in the oil, gas and mining sectors for immediate action.

    He noted  that the MoU between the two agencies would be quite useful to define clearly the rules of engagement. He said that this would be followed by the establishment of a joint operations committee to ensure effective implementation of the MoU.

    He praised NEITI on what he described as useful and well researched information and data which, according to him, the agency has consistently placed in the public domain on process lapses and corruption in the nation’s extractive industry.