A COVID-19 dashboard has been launched by the Commonwealth Secretariat to help member countries make vital decisions during the ongoing crisis.

The Commonwealth COVID-19 Dashboard is now live and offering crucial data and analysis to help equip governments and health workers with the information they need to tackle the pandemic and its devastating impacts.

Nigeria will benefit from the Lighting Africa-supported Regional Off-Grid Electrification Project, which aims to increase electricity access to households, businesses, and communities through modern off-grid electrification across Western Africa, the Programme Manager, Lighting Africa/Nigeria, Allwell Nwankwo, has said.

The Lighting Africa programme is a joint initiative of the International Finance…

Eni, an Italian oil major, said on Wednesday that payment for the Nigerian offshore oil block, Oil Prospecting Licence 245, acquired by it and Shell was made directly to the Federal Government through transparent means.

Eni and Shell jointly acquired the rights to a Nigerian offshore oil block, Oil Prospecting…

Nigeria’s state oil company and its joint venture partners have spent $360 million on cleaning up the Niger Delta oil heartland in the past two years, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said on Monday, but locals said little work had been done.

Nigeria is Africa’s biggest crude oil exporter.…

Chevron Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement with Noble Energy to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Noble Energy in an all-stock transaction valued at $5 billion, or $10.38 per share.

Based on Chevron’s closing price on July 17, 2020, and under the terms of the agreement, Noble Energy shareholders…

Kenya has won an arbitration case over a withdrawn geothermal exploration licence before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), Kenyan attorney general Paul Kihara Kariuki said in a statement.

The case was filed by US-Canadian renewables developer WalAm Energy Inc in 2015, on claims that the republic…

Total has announced its securement of $14.9 billion in senior debt financing for its landmark Mozambique LNG development, in spite of current disruptions to the oil and gas market.

With a total post-FID investment of $20 billion and $14.9 in project financing, Mozambique LNG represents the largest foreign direct investment…

An environmentalist, Mr Adewole Taiwo, has called for the adoption of Deposit Refund Scheme as in Europe and United States, to curb the growing rate of plastic waste pollution in the country.

Taiwo who is also the Executive Director at Recyclepoints, made the call on Tuesday in Lagos.