Issues for host communities under the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) The Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) establishes the Host Community Development Trusts (HCDTs), which will guide oil and gas company...
The lead-up to the Nigeria 2023 election was characterised by a growing interest among young people in the election process, largely due to the key provisions in the 2022...
SDN has worked with SOAS University of London (UK) to help map links between artisanal oil refining and other livelihoods, and highlight the ‘benefits’ or incentive structures of those...
Economic slowdown in Europe and China, dropping prices of oil, mean shrinking of budgets in Nigeria. This coincides with a year that will be the decisive test of Buhari’s...
SDN’s latest report, ‘Building Bridges’ investigates approaches to tackle the large scale issue of pipeline vandalism in the Niger Delta. A fractious relationship between oil companies, the communities and government...
The case of Rumuekpe Community (Rivers State) narrates the human consequences of oil exploration and weak governance. Rumuekpe typifies a modern conflict zone, with repeating cycles of criminal and political violence. ...
The case of Rumuekpe Community, Niger Delta, narrates the wretched human consequences of oil exploration. A community left without development, despite its resource riches, plagued by poverty and in-fighting. ...
The yet-to-be passed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) proposes a new fiscal regime for Nigeria’s oil industry which would governs the economic benefits derived from petroleum exploration and production. The...
The Petroleum Industry Bill: 14 years in the making Crude petroleum is Nigeria’s most important non-renewable energy source, contributing over 90 percent of the country’s foreign exchange earnings and...
Nigeria’s new president, Muhammadu Buhari, is considering whether or not to end an expensive fuel subsidy programme, although many Nigerians see cheap fuel prices as perhaps the only benefit...
With insufficient refining capacity, Nigeria is forced to import almost all the fuel it needs – despite being the Africa’s largest and world’s 6th largest exporter of crude oil....
Nigeria would have been buoyant enough to finance its 2015 budget of N4.36 trillion and still pay off its external debts of N2.03 trillion if it had not lost...
This report offers the first in-depth, independent analysis of how NNPC sells its oil. The main body of the report describes how oil sale practices have worsened since 2010,...
According to our independent analysis based on average domestic fuel consumption, subsidies claimed by fuel marketers cost Nigeria $2.9bn over the last year. Here we explain the Nigerian fuel...
We however hold strongly that no claim to transparency and accountability can be considered valid in a system where the basic document to achieve it, is not available to...