By Agency Reporter

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) on Thursday in Abuja expressed concerns over Nigeria’s N77 trillion public debt.

The Federal Government’s effort to boost the Nigerian economy by maximizing opportunities in the oil and gas sector through local content has materialized as the Industrial Park in Odukpani, Cross River State, is ready for business.

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has assured that host community is being carried along as the Nigerian Oil & Gas Park Scheme (NOGAPS) in Odukpani, Cross River, gets ready to commence operations.

The Nigerian Content Development & Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has equipped its first oil and gas industrial park at Odukpani in Cross River State, with the state-of-the-art Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) facilities to boost adaptation.

The sorry state of Calabar-Itu Road in Cross River State is a blight to the major development of the Nigeria Oil and Gas Industrial Park which is to serve as a hub for manufacturing and a catalyst to industrialisation in the country.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief) @CelestineOkaf11

The over 20,000 landlords in Aba, the Abia state commercial nerve centre, have lauded the Minister of Power, Engr Abubakar Aliyu, for his intervention, last weekend, in the disconnection of feeders belonging to the electricity distribution companies in Aba, Kaduna, and Kano that were cut off from the national transmission network for debts owed Federal Government agencies in the power sector.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief) @CelestineOkaf11

Management of the Aba Power has expressed delight at the restoration of the Aba based energy station to the national grid, and thanked Nigerians for their solidarity.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief) @CelestineOkaf11

The Association of Electricity Consumers Association (AECN) has accused the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) of acting in bad faith by cutting off Aba Power from the nation’s sole transmission line last Friday over N896m it owes government agencies in the power sector.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief) @CelestineOkaf11

The expectations of individuals and organisations in Abia State that the Market Operating unit of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) would reconnect Aba Power Power to the national grid after more than one week of total blackout in the Aba Ring-fenced Area, were dashed at the weekend.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief) @CelestineOkaf11

Over 20,000 members of the Aba Landlords Protection and Development Association (ALPDA) will mobilise to the Alaoji power plant in Abia State and occupy it if within the next 24 hours the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) fails to rescind its order which has since last Friday thrown the state into darkness over N896m owed Federal Government agencies in the power sector by Aba Power.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief) @CelestineOkaf11

In line with its mandate and continued efforts of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) to support the development of in-country capacities that would serve the Nigerian oil and gas industry and allied sectors, the Executive Secretary, Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote, on Wednesday, led representatives of international operating oil and gas companies and their service counterparts to visit Orbit Galvanized Steel Industries Limited at Ikorodu, Lagos, a subsidiary of the African Industries Group (AIG).

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief) @CelestineOkaf11

The enthronement of transparency, prudent management of financial resources, and deployment of a new master plan are some of the strategies that would attract the private sector to support the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and return the agency to the path of sustainable development of the Niger Delta region, the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote has canvassed.