Northern governors meet on oil and gas exploration

With the planned meeting of the 13 Northern states, which fall under the region’s sedimentary basin, the North is set to kick start oil and gas exploration activities in the Inland Basin States.
The Niger State Governor, who is also the Chairman of the Northern States Governors Forum, will, on Monday, declare the meeting of the Association of Petroleum Inland Basin States of Northern Nigeria open, according to his Chief Press Secretary, Danladi Ndayebo.
The statement by Ndayebo on Sunday said Governor Aliyu in his capacity as the Chairman of the forum, has invited his counterparts whose states fall within the region’s sedimentary basin to direct their relevant commissioners to attend a meeting of the association in Minna, to enable them brainstorm on the modalities and action plan that would kick start and sustain oil and gas exploration activities in the North.
The meeting will “fashion out strategies to harness the resources in Sokoto basin, Chad basin, Bida basin and Benue trough whose hydrocarbon contents are yet to be properly developed and estimated”.
The forum expressed support to the ongoing efforts by the Federal Government to explore oil in the sedimentary basin of Northern Nigeria.
The Inland Basin States comprise of Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Gombe, Kogi, kebbi, Niger and Sokoto States.
Others are Zamfara, Kwara, Nasarawa, Taraba, Yobe and Plateau States.