The Agitators Want Peace If …

The planned attacks on oil and gas installations in the Niger Delta have been suspended by the Niger Delta Agitators and are requesting the headquarters of oil and gas companies be relocated to the region. Also, they have withdrawn the quit notice issued to the Yoruba and Northern indigenes resident in the region amongst other threats. Read more here: http://dailypost.ng/2017/09/08/niger-delta-militants-suspend-planned-bombings-withdraw-quit-notice-northerners-yoruba/

Half-Time Energy Boost

Increased volumes and effective cost management have helped boost by 22 percent, the half-year profits of South African industrial gas supplier African Oxygen (Afrox). Read more here: https://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL8N1LM46E

Mass Denial Of US Visas To African Participants

US Visas have been denied invited Africans for a US-Africa energy summit scheduled for later September and has led to the cancellation of the fully booked two-day event by the organizers saying the development defeated the purpose of the summit and made it untenable. Read more here: http://allafrica.com/stories/201709080006.html

Fulani Herdsmen, Dangerous and Unstoppable! Like Seriously?

In 2014 the Fulani Herdsmen were ranked the fourth deadliest militant group in the world with a record killing of 1229 people in 2014, according to the 2015 Global Terrorism Index but have recently lost that spot to Al-Qa’ida in the 2016 report, and this is not unconnected with the many attacks (or reprisal attacks in some cases) carried out by this group in different communities in some parts of Nigeria hinged on cattle rustling and destruction of farmlands, with Benue State being the worst hit. Kiakiagas senior executives, C.E.O, Ifeanyi Uwandu, and C.C.O, Richard Odilu, examine the crisis and explain how LPG can be a lasting solution. Read more here: http://www.kiakiagas.com/blog/editorial-how-lpg-can-solve-fulani-herdsmen-crisis-nigeria