The Public Relations Officer of the Police Command in the state, DSP Ikechukwu Ogechukwu, confirmed the arrest to the News Agency of Nigeria in Eket on Friday.
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The contractors, mostly youths, were seen in Eket carrying placards with inscriptions entitled: “ExxonMobil pay us our 50 per cent oil spill 3rd milestones.”
Documents tendered before an Abuja Federal High Court by the former Attorney General of the Federation, Mohammed Bello Adoke, in a suit brought against the Attorney General of the Federation (ref. FHC/ABJ/CS/446/2017) seeking to prove his innocence in the $1.1 billion payment to Malabu Oil and Gas Limited, show that the Federal Government may have mismanaged the revocation of OPL 245 oil block and the eventual settlement agreement reached between the Federal Government of Nigeria and Malabu Oil and Gas Limited in November 2006
Currently, Mobil is one of the largest oil producing company in Nigeria with about 660,000 barrel per day
A top source in the company made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria at Mkpanak in the Ibeno Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State on Tuesday
The South-West Chairman of NUPENG, Alhaji Tokunbo Korodo, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that the clampdown was as a result of a threat by the management of Total to sack 70 workers for belonging to the union
In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, a youth leader in the community, Godwin Robert, who is the Secretary of Ulok Ulok People’s Assembly, lamented that the oil spill case was the sixth this year and is destroying the environment
Members of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria besieged the office of the oil giant, protesting the sacking of Nigerian workers
In Nigeria, and by extension Africa, infrastructural decadence has become the norm as governments over the years have learnt and mastered the act of abandoning projects halfway only to be further abandoned by the subsequent governments
However, to many Nigerians both In and out of government, this came as a huge surprise and a breath of fresh air especially since all that has been heard from the all-important oil sector since the commencement of the global oil price drop as been one sad new after the other
Mallam Garba Kurfi, the Managing Director, APT Securities and Funds Limited, said the acquisition of the 60 per cent in Mobil by an indigenous company was good for the market
A dependable source who preferred anonymity told the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Ibeno that those affected were at its administrative block at Qua Iboe Terminal, Ibeno
ExxonMobil, the world’s largest oil company, was said to have secured the lucrative oil rights in 2009 by beating out China’s fourth-largest oil producer for access, despite apparently underbidding its rival by $2.25 billion
The Paramount Ruler of Ibeno Local Government Area, Chief Effiong Archianga, said the “mandatory fee of $100 million annually was desirable”
With the campaign theme, “Wake Up to IABC!” the International Association of Business Communicators has announced October 2014, as its international membership month with enticing offers for fresh and lapsed members.
The youths, who were no fewer than 2,000, blocked access to the administrative bock of the agency
In a communiqué made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday after its town hall meeting in Eket, the Vanguard demanded immediate release of the N26.5 billion earlier promised by ExxonMobil
Governor Godswil Akpabio launched the IPEA on June 5, 2013 in Uyo. It is an initiative aimed at creating awareness on pollution, and helping the citizens of Akwa Ibom state develop positive environmental values that will enable them manage instances of environmental pollution that may occur, as well as prevent potential environmental hazards from happening