02/05/2025
Opportunity to make extra income as Freelance News & Current Affairs Analyst
An upcoming online news magazine, OilTimes, solicits articles that critically examine and analyze news, issues, events, and general current affairs in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry, host communities, and environs from interested writers.
About the magazine
OilTimes is a development advocacy, lifestyle, business, and socio-cultural multimedia communications platform focused on the Nigerian oil and gas industry and its operating areas.
The magazine shall endeavor through elevated journalism to connect the industry with the people and the people with the industry in the context of “living with oil”. It will interrogate, analyze, report, and showcase industry achievements and the developmental impact of oil and gas operations and aim to foster understanding, cooperation, and progress on all sides particularly regarding the social performance of the industry.
OilTimes is to celebrate both the people of the industry and the people of the communities that host them and provide readers and viewers more wholistic and vibrant perspectives to what traditionally has remained a rather dour view of the industry, their operations, and their hosts.
Criteria for acceptance of articles
To be acceptable for publication, articles must meet the following editorial criteria -
1. Objectivity and fact-based analysis
2. No ethnic or tribal bias or slant
3. No foul or deprecatory language
4. Minimal use of artificial intelligence assistance, if any!
5. Language and writing style should be simple and reader-friendly
6. Come with supportive illustrative photographs and/or recorded videos
7. Minimum of 2,000 words after editing; but some articles below 2,000 words may be accepted for publication based on their subject matter and relevance but may not be eligible for payment
8. All articles should be produced in editable Microsoft Word format, double-spaced, 12pts font size, and submitted electronically.
Acceptance and payment for articles for publication
Subject to length, detail, relevance, and currency amongst other factors, and at the discretion of the publishers, payment per article accepted for publication shall range between N5,000 and N15,000.
Writers may submit as many articles as they please at any time with their names and contact details explicitly stated.
Full credit shall be given to writers of articles accepted for publication with clear bylines and professional headshots.
Writers shall be contacted directly once their article is accepted for publication and advised as to the applicable rate. Payment shall be made once an article is confirmed with the writer for publication.
Rates for high-level professional and technical articles may be negotiated where necessary.
Companies and other stakeholders in the industry may submit stories, reports of their events, and articles or write-ups for publication for a token fee.
All articles and materials accepted for publication are subject to the editorial policy of the publishers as enunciated above and may be edited accordingly.
Articles and materials for publication should be emailed to:
[email protected]
or WhatsApp Business on 07083000536.
Website:
Living With Oil
