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ACCRA, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Ghana's new President Nana
Akufo-Addo pledged to cut taxes to boost the economy at his
swearing in ceremony on Saturday, whilst also promising to
protect the public purse by getting value for money on services.

ACCRA, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Ghana's new president Nana
Akufo-Addo said he would cut taxes to boost the economy on
Saturday, as he took the oath of office in the capital Accra.

MOSCOW, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Russia's Gazprom said on
Saturday its daily supplies of natural gas to countries outside
of the former Soviet Union have reached a record high due to
cold weather in Europe.

ACCRA, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Nana Akufo-Addo was sworn in as
Ghana's president on Saturday in a ceremony attended by dozens
of African leaders, sealing a rare peaceful transfer of power in
a region plagued by political crises.

LAGOS, Jan 6 (Reuters) - A Nigerian militant group, which
has claimed a wave of attacks on oil pipelines in the Niger
Delta, said on Friday that it had asked its fighters to prepare
to fight the "enemy" as authorities were not ready for dialogue.

LAGOS, Jan 6 (Reuters) - A Nigerian militant group, which
has claimed attacks on oil pipelines in the Niger Delta, said in
a statement on Friday that it had asked its fighters to prepare
to fight the "enemy" as authorities were not ready for dialogue.

Jan 6 (Reuters) - U.S. oil and natural gas producers added
jobs in November, the sector's first monthly employment increase
in more than two years as drillers returned to the well pad due
to a rally in crude prices, according to U.S. jobs data on
Friday.

* U.S drillers add oil rigs for 10th week in a row -Baker
Hughes

(New throughout, updates prices and market activity, adds Baker
Hughes data)

Jan 6 (Reuters) - U.S. energy companies this week added oil
rigs for a tenth week in a row, extending the drilling recovery
into an eighth month as crude prices remained near an 18-month
high.
Drillers added four oil rigs in the week to Jan. 6, bringing
the total count up to 529, the most since December 2015, energy
services firm Baker Hughes Inc said on Friday.

Jan 6 (Reuters) - U.S. oil and natural gas production jobs
increased in November for the first time in over two years as
drillers returned to the well pad after crude rallied following
its biggest price rout in a generation, according to U.S. jobs
data on Friday.

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