PIA: NUPRC Inaugurates BoT Forum for Host Community Trust Implementation
The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has inaugurated the Host Community Development and Administration Trust Board of Trustees (BOT) Forum. The exercise held at the Commission’s headquarters in Abuja…
New electricity law that cedes 5% to host communities takes effect
President Bola Tinubu has signed the Electricity Act (Amendment) Bill, 2024, into law. The bill, which was passed by the House of Representatives on July 27, 2023, and the Senate…
NCDMB to cater for host communities as Odukpani Oil & Gas Park set to take off
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has said that host communities would be carried along as the Nigerian Oil & Gas Park Scheme (NOGAPS) in Odukpani, Cross River,…
Angry Okowa flays oil companies for neglecting host communities
Delta Governor, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, has flayed oil companies operating in Delta for neglecting their host communities. He frowned at the non-implementation of Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) by some…
Chevron invests N20.6bn in host communities in 13 years
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)/Chevron Nigeria Limited Joint Ventures says it has invested about N20.6 billion on 600 programmes between 2005 and 2018 through its Global Memorandum of Understanding…
NPDC spends N606m on host communities in 2016, 2017 – official
January 17, 2018 The Nigeria Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) says it spent N606 million on skill acquisition, health and education programmes for host communities in Edo, Delta and Imo states…