Meanwhile the APC's 49-man campaign committee led by Ganduje includes regional heavyweights like minister of state for petroleum Timipre Sylva deputy President of the Senate Ovie Omo-Agege and two former governors of Edo (AC Vol 60 No 4 Governors get set)...
A revived Petroleum Industry Bill the much-delayed thorough reform of the oil industry is now due 'before the end of the year' according to Timipre Sylva Minister of State for Petroleum Resources...
The NEC's Ad-Hoc Committee on Covid-19 was chaired by Osinbajo and included the most powerful financial officials in the country: Minister of Finance Zainab Ahmed budget minister Clement Agba deputy oil minister Timipre Sylva NNPC managing director Mele Kyari and Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Godwin Emefiele...
Party schismOne of the most powerful Ogoni politicians Senator Magnus Abe has been elevated to the board of the NNPC by Deputy oil minister Timipre Sylva a former Delta militant and governor of neighbouring Bayelsa State...
Both deputy oil minister Timipre Sylva and managing director of the state's Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Mele Kyari say there will be another bidding round for major exploration licences next year when industry interest may have recovered (AC Vol 61 No 8 Oil behaving badly)...
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In Nigeria Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Timipre Sylva is trying to rekindle hope in the long-delayed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) but the prospects of it passing this year are diminishing (AC Vol 59 No 16 Politics of patronage)...
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Minister of State for Petroleum Timipre Sylva is the most obvious example of this...
Timipre Sylva the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources insists that President Buhari who is also the lead minister for the Petroleum Resources portfolio will introduce new legislation to reform the country's oil and gas industry by the middle of the year...
Also on Osinbajo's committee is Emefiele Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed the NNPC's Kyari Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Timipre Sylva and four other key ministers: Chris Ngige (labour); Niyi Adebayo (trade and industry); Sadiya Farouq (humanitarian affairs); and Babatunde Fashola (works and housing)...
Despite this Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Timipre Sylva is confident the price will bounce back to $40-50 a barrel after all producers agreed to swingeing cuts...
The winner junior petroleum minister David Lyon a political godson of Petroleum Minister and former Bayelsa governor Timipre Sylva braved eleventh-hour legal hurdles and a heavyweight challenger in ex-senator and minister Heineken Lokpobiri to snatch victory in the primaries...
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