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Port of Southampton to develop UK's first Shore Power Terminal by 2022

MARITIME ACCIDENT: Skipper and pilot died in pilot boat collision in Kobe

By Our Correspondent A Pilot boat with five people on board collided with breakwater at Kobe Port, Japan, at around 0300 Tokyo time September 4, 2022, according to FleetMon. It stated: “52-year-old skipper of the boat, and 71-year-old pilot, died in the collision, 3 crew were seriously injured.” .Details coming later

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CONSERVATION: Vultures need love, protection — Prof Eniang

CONSERVATION: Vultures need love, protection — Prof Eniang

By Eyo Nsima Professor Edem Eniang, Head of Wildlife Ecology Unit, Dept. of Forestry and Wildlife, University of Uyo, Nigeria, has disclosed that Vultures need to be loved and protected in order to enable them perform their duties as cleaners of the environment. He said that Vultures were created to perform major functions, including the

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BREAKING: Nigeria’s Bonny Light price hits $70.15 per barrel

OIL MARKET: COVID 19 resurgence in China breeds instability

By Eyo Nsima The resurgence of Coronivarus pandemic in China has worsened instability in the global oil market. The pandemic threat was fuelled by speculation mostly because of the central place of China as a major crude buyer, expected to utilise more oil in its post-pandemic development. Already, some parts of China have experienced complete

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Middle East: Oil demand remains low despite the ease in COVID-19 lockdown

AEW 2022: Trinity Energy to Shape Downstream and Midstream Discussions as Gold Sponsor

By Our Correspondent Trinity Energy, South Sudanese petroleum retail services firm, will be participating at this year’s edition of African Energy Week, AEW, as a gold sponsor, shaping discussions on the challenges and opportunities within the sector. According to African Energy Week (AEW), the conference and exhibition, Africa’s premier event for the oil and gas

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Middle East: Oil demand remains low despite the ease in COVID-19 lockdown

AEW 2022: NAMCOR to shape investment and Green Hydrogen Dialogue as a Platinum Sponsor

By Our Correspondent The National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia will attend the African Oil Week, AEW 2022 as a platinum sponsor, shaping discussions around making energy poverty history on the back of oil, gas and green hydrogen. According to AEW, “Following two sizeable oil and gas discoveries made this year as well as the launch

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NIGER: Households, businesses grappling with poor power supply --- Investigation

Electricity: generation drops 12.3% as TCN battles to restore supply after fire

By Eyo Nsima ELECTRICITY generation dropped, yesterday, by 12.3 per cent to 3,804 megawatts, MW, from 4,382MW, according to the Energy System operator, an independent arm of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN. In its operational report obtained by The Daily, www.thedaily-ng.com, Sunday, the operator attributed the development to many problems, including insufficient gas. Consequently,

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SERAP sues Akpabio, Abass over ‘plan to spend N110bn on bulletproof cars, others’

Withdraw nomination of alleged APC members as INEC RECs, SERAP tells Buhari

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to use his “leadership position to urgently withdraw the names of nominees recently submitted to the Senate for confirmation as Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) who are allegedly members of the All Progressives Congress (APC).” According to reports,

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GULF OF GUINEA: Nigeria seeks release of MV HEROIC IDUN for investigation --- Nigerian Navy

MARITIME ACCIDENT: How GRIMALDI’s ro-ro grounded in Western Scheldt

By Our Correspondent A Ro-ro cargo ship GRANDE GUINEA has run aground in Western Scheldt in front of Bath, at around 0130 UTC September 2, 2022, according to FleetMon. It stated: “Ro-ro cargo ship GRANDE GUINEA ran aground in Western Scheldt in front of Bath, at around 0130 UTC September 2, 2022, while sailing downstream,

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