Infrastructure Minister Linda Bihire yesterday assured employees of Electrogaz, the national water and energy utility, that they would not lose their jobs as a result of the restructuring the parastatal expected soon.

Lamin Sawo, coordinator of the President's International Award solar cooking project has said his project has trained over 1,000 Gambian women in solar cooking during the last summer.

The Ministers of the Niger Delta Ministry, Chief Ufot Ekaette and Elder Godsday Orubebe, will today begin 15 days marathon consultation with stake-holders in the Niger Delta.

The performance of the country's power sector have been at its lowest ebb in recent time. To worsen the situation, the alternative means of generating power has become a weapon of mass destruction as unsuspecting users are killed intermittently due

Governor Namadi Sambo of Kaduna State said the government planned to embark on a multi-million Naira emergency fuel power project.

Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) has set up a panel to investigate the immediate and remote causes of the fire incident which ravaged parts of the building housing its Ek Distribution Zone in Lagos.

A Steering Council on the National Integrated Power Project (NIPP) has been inaugurated by Vice President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.

HUMAN Rights Writers' Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), a development focussed Non-Governmental Organisation, yesterday carpeted Federal Government for the reported paltry N18 billion allocation meant for new development projects for the Niger Delta Ministry in the 2009 fiscal budget.

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Bayelsa State has flayed the continued engagement of expatriate welders and fitters at the Gbarain LNG project site in the old Yenagoa council area by the management of Daewoo Nigeria Limited, saying this was

A FUEL shortage is looming in the country amid revelations that government departments have run out of fuel.

President Umaru Yar'Adua yesterday promised President Fradique de Menezes of Sao Tome and Principe that Nigeria will exert its influence on Cheveron-Texaco and other oil companies that won oil blocks in Sao Tome and Principe to commence exploitation as soon

The chairman of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Angolan Oil minister Botelho de Vasconcelos, on Thursday in Luanda said that there is a possibility of more cuts in crude oil production, aiming for balance and stability in the

CONTRARY to initial assumptions, the wind energy sector will take strain from the global financial crisis, say consultants Frost & Sullivan.

President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has vowed to pressure Nigerian oil companies like Chevron-Texaco that won oil blocks in the Joint Development Zone (JDZ) owned by Nigeria and Sao Tome and Principe to commence drilling immediately.

THE Minister for Energy, Daudi Migereko, has asked Trinidad and Tobago to train Ugandans to develop her promising oil and gas sector.

If what experts are saying is anything to go by then there are strong indications that Ghana is likely to join the league of the world's Oil-rich producing Countries. Experts from Kosmos Energy have told President Mills that the latest

The Joint Military Taskforce (JTF) has destroyed more than 300 illegal refineries in the Niger Delta in the last one year.

The World Bank is reopening an office in the Chadian capital N'djamena nearly a year after armed conflict forced it to close, and months after the Bank pulled out of an oil pipeline project after concluding that Chad had failed