Rilwanu Lukman

Oil Minister Rilwanu Lukman and Finance Minister Mansur Mukhtar are leading Nigeria's management of its worst economic crisis for two decades...

Oil Minister Rilwanu Lukman is preparing to present a 175-page bill to the National Assembly on the restructuring and management of the oil and gas sector...

Much to the irritation of President Yar'Adua and Oil Minister Rilwanu Lukman the Western oil companies have been leading opposition to their Petroleum Industry Bill which is now getting held up in the National Assembly...

Many people are calling for Rilwanu Lukman who headed the Power Sector Reform Committee to be awarded the energy portfolio...

The National Energy Council headed by former Oil Minister Rilwanu Lukman completed its reorganisation plans for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation over which politicians will argue for the rest of the year...

It is strongly supported by the NEC's Rilwanu Lukman...

The committee led by former Oil Minister Rilwanu Lukman presented its detailed recommendations on reform to Yar'Adua on 11 January...

Already these reforms are meeting resistance from vested interests and Rilwanu Lukman who chairs the new National Energy Council is growing frustrated with the slow pace of policymaking...

Launched on 5 September its membership includes former Oil Minister Rilwanu Lukman and former Abuja Minister Nasir el-Rufai...

Later that year the then OPEC Secretary General Nigeria's Rilwanu Lukman invited Dos Santos to sign up for full membership...

Directors include Rilwanu Lukman formerly Secretary General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries and Nigeria's ex-Oil Minister; Egbert Imomoh former Deputy Managing Director of Shell in Nigeria; Guy Pas formerly chief financial officer of oil traders Addax and of the mineral house Oryx; and Engelbert Cooper a Liberian with a colourful business history under ex-Presidents Samuel Doe and Charles Taylor and later in South Africa...