The Federal Government of Nigeria has won the legal case against Process & Industrial Developments (P&ID) Limited in a London court on Monday.
The judgment was delivered after five years of legal frameworks which have finally been to the advantage of Nigeria, as the court quashed the $11 billion arbitration award in favour of P&ID.
In a ruling delivered by e-mail, Robin Knowles, the Justice of the Commercial Courts of England and Wales, upheld Nigeria’s prayer on the ground that the ill-fated gas processing contract was obtained by fraud.… Read the rest
THE Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, NMDPRA, Farouk Ahmed, yesterday, said that industry deregulation has actually seen a 33.58 per cent reduction in fuel consumption of Nigerians. Ahmed who stated this at the ongoing Oil Trading and Logistics, OTL, Africa Week, 2023, in Lagos, explained: “Our data reveal that after the announcement of deregulation, an average volume of 44.3 million litres per day was evacuated for distribution nationwide which implies a 33.58 per cent reduction from the 66.7 million litres per day before the deregulation.… Read the rest
The price of Premium Motor Spirit, otherwise known as petrol increased year-on-year, YoY, by 226.75 per cent to N626.21 per litre in September 2023, from N191.65 per litre, recorded in the corresponding period of 2022.
However, in its latest report – Premium Motor Spirit (Petrol) Price Watch for September 2023 – obtained by Energy Vanguard, the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, indicated that Taraba State topped the price chart at N665.70 per litre, overshooting the post-subsidy adjusted price of N600.35 per litre for that region by 9.8 per cent.… Read the rest
THE Federal Government, yesterday, admitted that Nigeria was ill-prepared to take advantage of the significant increase in the demand for natural gas by European countries following the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war last year.
Following the outbreak of the war and imposition of sanctions, Russia cut gas supply to European countries leading to a huge energy crisis and increased demand for alternative sources of gas.… Read the rest
Five months after the Bola Tinubu administration removed subsidies on petrol, major crises bedevilling the petroleum sector continue with ripple effects on the livelihood of Nigerians.
President Tinubu had, in his inaugural address on 29 May, announced the removal of the subsidy, to lift a major financial burden off the back of the government.
The Nigerian government had for decades subsidized and fixed retail prices of petroleum products.… Read the rest