31.08.10 Nigeria Focus August issue: Table of contents

Dezeani Allison-Madueke

SPOTLIGHT
> Petroleum Resources Minister's position looks shaky as new oil licensing round imminent

OIL & GAS
> IOCs and Interagency wide apart as latter refuses to back down on its plans to use Petroleum Industry Bill to decrease tax on crude production
> Shell offers onshore blocks in Forcados system
> Camac and Allied Energy MoU to acquire CAMAC's full interest in oil mining leases
> Increased sabotage attacks on pipelines around Bonny in Rivers State area of operation
> SeaBird signs with Shell for acquisition of ocean bottom node seismic survey
> Afren and Oriental launch FPSO at Yulian shipyard in China
> Seplat completes acquisition of 45 per cent stake in OMLs 4, 38 and 41

NIGER DELTA
> Delta clean-up JV with Titan Projects Nigeria and the Rivers State
> Army deployed in Bayelsa in a bid to quell worsening security situation
> NNDC budget furore over social activities involving Niger Delta Development Commission members'

POLITICS & SOCIETY
> Atiku declares presidential ambition to run under the PDP platform
> IBB wants the job too and is set to run against Goodluck Jonathan
> Table 1: Abia deputy governor resigns
> Senate dissolves committee screening of nominees to the board of the Nigeria Communications Commission
> National Assembly approves INEC budget for 2011 general election
> Babalola takes the fall over NNPC's insolvency brouhaha
> Willbros extradition halted pending further hearing of the case
> Anosike brothers charged with conspiracy and theft

ECONOMY & FINANCE
> The new bank czars: Zenith Bank: Godwin Emefiele; UBA: Phillip Odozua; Skye Bank: Kehinde Durosinmi-Etti
> Changes in NSE leadership results in removal of the director general and suspension
of NSE president
> Tussle for NSE top job between former friends Aliko Dangote and Femi Otedola
> Akingbola ends self-exile in the UK