03 April 2012, Sweetcrude, Port Harcourt – When the debate for the total deregulation of the upstream sub-sector of the…
Browsing: The Niger-Delta Question
04 March 2012, Sweetcrude, Port-Harcourt – It was commentators from the South of Nigeria who served the Northern political elite…
06 February 2012, Sweetcrude, Port Harcourt – Upon making a decision to enter a commentary on this discourse I made…
03 Januardy 2012, Sweetcrude, Port Harcourt – Taiwo Ekundayo and I were both surprised at how fast we closed the…
6 december 2011, Sweetcrude, Lagos – I remember how as a young teenager I was caught within the grips of…
John Iyene Owubokiri 1 November 2011, Sweetcrude, Port Harcourt – The first point to note about the downstream sector of…
2 October 2011, Sweetcrude, Port Harcourt- As the story teller told us, the Niger Delta is the theatre of auguries;…
3 September, 2011, Sweetcrude, Lagos – For several years the IOCs and the Federal Government have been in denial of…
Her initial appointment as Petroleum Minister was greeted with loud objections and skepticism both in the industry and the larger Nigerian society. It was not only about her academic qualifications and work experience, which industry watchers believed were simply inadequate to supervise Nigeria’s most important industry.
Events in Nigeria reflect the multiplicity of interests, aspirations and priorities of the ethnic groups, religious affiliations and political preferences of her citizens. For many reasons it can be described as a multi-coloured web crafted without design by a variegated species of spiders working exclusively.
