 The Northern Cocos in the House of Representatives has taken a common position on the Petroleum Industry Bill. They decided to support its passage after a seven-hour sensitization meeting attended by the Sultan of Sokoto and the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Emmanuel Ehigene, has a story. It is one of the oldest bills ever proposed in Nigeria since 1999. It is also one of the most altered, the Petroleum Industry Bill. But it looks like the fortune of the bill is about to change, following the promise by the leadership of the House of Representatives to pass its bidding. After a sensitization meeting, Northern lawmakers say that we ensure the bill becomes a reality and is beneficial to the Northern region. In the next 20 years, all will no longer be relevant in the economy of the world because of the identification and development of renewable energies which are now available in the Europe, America and Canada and very soon it will succumb to other parts of Asia and Africa. So we need to explore all the old deposits that we have so that we can use the money to develop other sectors such as agriculture, industry, education here and infrastructure generally. Let us create a legislative framework that will come up with a system that is not only globally recognized, but it is timely and apt in order to promote our economic engagement within and without the country in Nigeria to which we all belong. Various speakers at the meeting share their views on the benefit of the PIB when accented by the president. The direct connection to the above is the need to reform the oil and gas sector by providing better clarity for all stakeholders in changing the domestic gas to power market, increasing oil and gas production while protecting the environment. It's ensuring that the people of the North are carried along in the PIB so that we'll have a PIB where all regions will benefit from it, all Nigerians will benefit from it and it has absolutely nothing with hijacking the PIB. When people talk of oil exploration or PIB, people just look at the southern part of the country thinking that that's where oil is and the bill is strictly just for the southern part of the country. But for the northerners to understand that the PIB itself entails and have to do with entire Nigerians and that's what it means. It's not about the northern part of Nigeria. With this optimism, it is expected that when finally accented by the president, the petroleum industry bill will lead to an industrial revolution.