The Minister of state for Petroleum Resources, TIMIPRE SYLVA says the National Assembly will pass the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) by April 2021.

Sylva, disclosed this at the weekly ministerial media briefing at the State House in Abuja, the nation’s capital.

The Minister told newsmen that the bill would not suffer a setback, going by all indications from the leadership of the National Assembly.

He added that if the nation must diversify from petroleum, it must go in the direction of gas, and said the 20-year-old PIB would attract a lot of investments to the gas sector.