Commissioning of EFCN Fabrication Training Centre in Lagos, October 2009

News and events // 22/12/2009 //

The purpose of the Centre is to establish a centre of excellence for training welders, fabrication engineers and trainers with a governance structure to sustain medium sized enterprises (SMEs) capacity building and accreditation. The Stakeholders are the Norwegian Agency for Development (Norad), the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the Norwegian Oil and Gas Partners (INTSO...

News and events // 02/11/2007 //

The Norwegian Deputy Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Liv Monica Stubholt, met with her Nigerian counterpart the Minister of State for Energy (Petroleum), Mr. Odein Ajumogobia, in Abuja on October 29, 2007. The purpose of their meeting was to exchange views with regard to the world energy market, national challenges in the petroleum sector and the bilateral cooperation between the two countrie...

Norwegian development policy adapting to change

News and events // 19/10/2009 //

The last twenty years has witnessed a substantial decrease in global poverty. Hundreds of millions of people are experiencing an improvement in living standards. Today, nearly all children have access to primary education. The number of democracies in the world has doubled. The opportunities for sustainable global development are many. But so are the obstacles. The fight against poverty ...

Healthy Mothers and Healthy Children! The PRRINN Programme Expands

News and events // 02/02/2009 //

From 1st September 2008 PRRINN is expanding, so that it will cover health care for mothers and children, not only immunization . This is made possible by the addition of Norwegian assistance to the PRRINN funding of the British Government. The purpose of the new PRRINN-MNCH programme is to improve the quality and availability of all maternal, neonatal and child health services. These services i...

Norway - Nigeria development cooperation

News and events // 28/10/2008 //

The development co-operation between Norway and Nigeria focuses on good governance, with a special emphasis on the petroleum sector, on human rights and women's rights, as well as on maternal and child health.

Petroleum co-operation Norway-Nigeria

News and events // 27/06/2006 //

Address by Ambassador designate Tore Nedrebø, Royal Norwegian Embassy, at the opening of the Seminar on Subsea Technologies, Lagos 14th November 2005

Norway helps prepare Ghana for the oil age

News and events // 29/05/2009 //

Oil has been found in profitable quantities in the waters outside Ghana. Oil production may commence as early as 2010. Already in 2005, the Ghanaian national oil company GNPC approached Norway to ask for assistance in managing petroleum resources under the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affair's Oil for Development programme. The approach was seconded by then UN Secretary General, the Ghanaian K...

Maternal and child health

News and events // 29/12/2008 //

Norway together with the United Kingdom supports a Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) Programme in Northern Nigeria . The Norwegian contribution (approx NOK 250 million/USD 50 million from 2008 – 2012) is part of the global initiative of the Norwegian Government to address Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5.

EITI MEETING IN OSLO

News and events // 28/09/2007 //

Government representatives, the heads of international oil, gas and mining companies, and NGOs will be attending the EITI Board meeting in Oslo on Thursday 27 September 2007. Among the issues the Board will be considering will be whether 13 of the 20 EITI member countries will be permitted to retain their member status. Withdrawal of membership can have serious consequences for a country’s repu...