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Following the death of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua on 5 May after a prolonged illness, vice president Goodluck Jonathan has been elevated to the presidency after several months filling in as the acting head of state. With many of Nigeria’s political elite still deeply unhappy at a southerner taking office during the agreed presidential tenure for the north,

The Jonathan administration is signalling a desire for dynamic policy-making, but for all the personnel changes and policy statements, Abuja’s ability to enact deep-rooted change remains in question. African Energy rounds up the new team’s approach to key policy issues

The federal government on 26 April approved more appointments at the top of the oil industry, with further changes in the senior managements of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), several of its subsidiaries and the government's Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR).

AfDB Governors recommend 200% capital increase and New Clean Energy bonds; Regideso debt; Pride bribery allegations

Goodluck Jonathan’s Presidential Action Committee on Power (PACP) must produce a workable blueprint for the sector before end-May, the acting president told journalists on 21 April. Jonathan has retained the electricity portfolio in his new cabinet, working with minister of state Nuhu Somo Wya in another effort to overcome crippling power problems, which, according to Jonathan, have left Nigeria in a state of “semi-emergency”. Again, the government is focusing on reform within a solid regulatory framework as the key to stable power supplies.

Nigeria’s female ministers have proved themselves a tough and often talented bunch, but new petroleum minister Diezani Allison-Madueke faces a difficult challenge to finalise the Petroleum Industry Bill, which her predecessor, the law’s key architect Rilwanu Lukman,

After the failure of successive ministers to increase Nigeria’s generation capacity to meet targets, missing out on the 6,000MW capacity increase expected by end-2008 and again in 2009, Acting President Goodluck Jonathan is taking on the portfolio himself until a new

Goodluck Jonathan’s new cabinet is packed with surprises that the acting president hopes will cement his authority and speed up government business.

Acting President Goodluck Jonathan has submitted to the senate his first 33 nominations to fill government ministries a week after sacking the cabinet in a bold move to stamp his authority on government.

The new government is committed to pushing the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) through parliament this year, despite the departure of the law’s architect, ex-petroleum minister Rilwanu Lukman.

ANGOLA: Big tanker order for DSME; NIGERIA: KBR awarded contract for Eleme plant revamp; TUNISIA: IDB, Steg sign loan for gas supply project

Houston-based ERHC Energy says the national petroleum agency ANP-STP has granted it 100% in blocks 4 and 11 of the islands’ Exclusive Economic Zone, following its exercise of preferential rights.

Oil sector financiers are anticipating another busy year, led by the need for new money in the hydrocarbons sectors in East and West Africa, writes Kevin Godier

The government is determined to hold a licensing round by year-end for onshore and offshore fields – as forecast by African Energy (AE 179/19) – in a very difficult political environment.

Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) has agreed to transfer its interest in three production licences in the Niger Delta to a consortium led by two Nigerian companies.