{"id":79736,"date":"2025-12-06T21:23:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79736"},"modified":"2025-12-06T21:23:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:23:56","slug":"nigerias-rise-could-power-africas-energy-future-wacog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/06\/nigerias-rise-could-power-africas-energy-future-wacog\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s Rise Could Power Africa\u2019s Energy Future -WACOG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The West African Centre for Oil Governance (WACOG) says the recent emergence of Nigeria as headquarters of the African Petroleum Regulators Forum (AFRIPERF), alongside the election of NUPRC chief Gbenga Komolafe as chairman, marks a significant boost for Africa\u2019s energy governance.<\/p>\n<p>WACOG described the development as a strong vote of confidence in Nigeria\u2019s push for transparent, modern regulation, noting that it signals growing continental commitment to harmonised upstream standards.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation said the move would strengthen regulatory cohesion, enhance investment security, and amplify Africa\u2019s collective voice on infrastructure, emissions and energy-transition financing.<\/p>\n<p>It urged AFRIPERF member-states to work closely with the new leadership, stressing that shared policies, capacity building and coordinated oversight are vital as global energy dynamics continue to shift.<\/p>\n<p>WACOG called the decision \u201ca defining moment for Africa\u2019s oil governance framework,\u201d adding that Nigeria\u2019s regulatory advancements could help elevate standards and attract major investments across the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat The West African Centre for Oil Governance (WACOG) says the recent emergence of Nigeria as headquarters of the African Petroleum Regulators Forum (AFRIPERF), alongside the election of NUPRC chief Gbenga Komolafe as chairman, marks a significant boost for Africa\u2019s energy governance. WACOG described the development as a strong vote of confidence in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":79737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1720,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79738,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79736\/revisions\/79738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}