Last week in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom state capital, the national stakeholders working group of Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) ended its special retreat for members. Acting on the powers conferred on the body under the NEITI Act of 2007 which, amongst others, include the responsibility of ensuring transparency and accountability in the management [...]
The Executive Director, Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) Malam Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, believes that the way and manner the Jonathan administration operates does not give hope that it has the political will to tackle corruption, particularly in the oil sector. He spoke with MUSA ADAMU in Abuja The Ribadu and Oronsanye reports opened disagreement [...]
Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has been asked to check illegal mining of solid minerals in the country. Akwa Ibom state governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio, who made the call at a state dinner for members of the National Stakeholders Working Group (NSWG) of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) held at the banquet [...]
Independent audit of the oil and gas industry by Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), which commenced earlier in the year, has reached advanced stage. NEITI said the audit exercise was investigating all payments streams made by oil companies against receipts by government agencies into the federation account from 2009 to 2011. It informed that [...]
The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, (NEITI) has welcomed with the composition of its new board by federal government. It said it was particularly happy by the appointment of experienced professionals from diverse backgrounds to serve as members of its new national stakeholders working group, (NSWG). According to its director of communication, Orji Ogbonnaya Orji, [...]
The Nigeria Extractive Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has recommended for Gombe state to benefit from the federal government’s 13 per cent derivation to all solid minerals-producing states. Its Executive Secretary, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, stated this when she paid a courtesy call on the Gombe state governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Dankwambo, as part of her agency’s facility tour [...]
The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Hajiya Zainab Ahmed has charged operators in the solid mineral industry to be transparent in declarations of extractions. Ahmed who said that NEITI was duty bound to publish audit reports, further called for cooperation from sector practitioners. FRANCIS ADINOYI KADIRI reports The Executive Secretary [...]
The Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Mrs. Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed on Thursday, signed contracts for audits of the solid minerals, and oil and gas sectors in Abuja. While the oil & gas sector would be audited by the firm of Sada Idris & Co., covering 2009-2011, the solid minerals sector [...]
The Ministry of Mines and Steel Development would cooperate with the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI). This position was made known by the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Arc. Musa Mohammed Sada during a meeting with the Executive Secretary of NEITI, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, who led an auditing firm, Haruna Yahaya & Co [...]
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