The ability of the Nigerian banking sector to finance oil and gas sector continued to wax stronger with First Bank plc as the bank has advanced credit facilities in excess of N750 billion to various projects in the sector in recent times.
The advances are over 45 percent of the 1.5 trillion loans a
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