{"id":16658,"date":"2021-09-04T07:22:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T07:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ndarason.com\/?p=16658"},"modified":"2022-11-21T09:46:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T08:46:09","slug":"kura-bari-program-nigerias-oil-sector-reform-expectations-and-the-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/kura-bari-program-nigerias-oil-sector-reform-expectations-and-the-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Kura Bari Program: Nigeria\u2019s Oil Sector Reform: Expectations and the Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello and welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Today in Kura Bari Program we will discuss President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s signing of the historic Petroleum Bill into law on the 16<sup>th<\/sup> of August. Stakeholders have been calling for reform in the oil and gas sector for years.<\/p>\n<p>Mallam Garba Shehu, the president\u2019s spokesman, says the Petroleum Industry Act aims to attract more foreign capital into the country\u2019s oil and gas sector.<\/p>\n<p>The Act introduces pertinent changes to the governance, administrative, regulatory and fiscal framework of the industry to ensure transparency, strengthen the governing institutions, attract investment capital and eliminate corruption, among other objectives.<\/p>\n<p>Many believe it is a step in the right direction.\u00a0But others are concerned that the industry overhaul will not be able to deliver the full benefits of the intended reforms, especially as many of the new roles are filled with familiar faces.<\/p>\n<p>Our guests are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ibrahim Ciroma<\/strong>, the zonal operations controller at the department of petroleum resources;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Crema Kyari<\/strong> of the <em>Network<\/em>of\u00a0<em>Civil<\/em>Society\u00a0<em>Organisations in Borno State<\/em>; and<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jidda Abdul-Aziz Ajayi<\/strong>, a senior economics lecturer at the University of Maiduguri.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px;color: #cccccc;overflow: hidden;font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-946373617\" title=\"Ndarason\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none\" rel=\"noopener\">Ndarason<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-946373617\/kura-bari-program-reform-petrolum\" title=\"Kura Bari Program Reform Petrolum\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none\" rel=\"noopener\">Kura Bari Program Reform Petrolum<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello and welcome. Today in Kura Bari Program we will discuss President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s signing of the historic Petroleum Bill into law on the 16th of August. Stakeholders have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kura-bari","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50844,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16658\/revisions\/50844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}