31.12.11 Nigeria Focus December issue: Table of contents

SPOTLIGHT

  • Jonathan puts power at centre of 2012 agenda as budget unveiled: The gross federally collectible revenue is 1projected at ?9.406 trillion
  • Table 1: Budget breakdown
  • NERC issues new power licences: The government expects to generate an estimated 6,105 MW of electricity
  • Subsidy removal controversy rages: A softer approach?
  • Table 2: 2012 Budget statistics

OIL & GAS

  • Aveon secures Nigeria contract: The project will be executed by Aveon Offshore at its 240,000 m2 fabrication yard in Rumuolumeni
  • Upsurge in Umasadege field
  • Hyundai wins offshore platforms: Hyundai Heavy will perform all the project work

NIGER DELTA

  • Tensions between tribes: Reyenieju's motion had been fiercely opposed
  • Bayelsa's Sylva backtracks: It seems he may have been 'advised' to go down without a fight

POLITICS & SOCIETY

  • Boko Haram bombing campaign: St Theresa terror; Outraged reaction
  • Angry Buhari shut out: The facts are that people were deeply angered and deeply provoked
  • Reaping the dividends of friendship
  • Senate throws out lawmakers: On what grounds?
  • Court nullifies election: The judge further held that Senator Nwaogu was 'ineligible
  • Jonathan backtracks on Elechi
  • PDP wins Kogi governorship: PDP won 18 of the 21 local government areas

ECONOMY & FINANCE

  • Senate approves BPE report: The panel advised that BPE 'approach the National Assembly for appropriation
  • Ibru struck from register: Cecilia Ibru has been struck out of the Register of Members of the Institute
  • Indonesian consortium seals deal
  • Union Bank reconstructs shares: The listing of shares by the NSE also led to the lifting of the full suspension.