President Muhammadu Buhari has issued a set of directives which will enable the Federal Government accelerate the implementation of its new vision for the development of...
The Presidency has finally come out with a bumper package aimed at accelerating the return of peace to the troubled Niger Delta region and ensure steady...
The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Thursday, landed in Akwa Ibom State in continuation of the Federal Government’s outreach to oil producing communities in Niger Delta....
On February 23, 1966, some 51 years ago, the first attempt by the people of the Niger Delta to part ways with Nigeria, and have a...
Former Niger Delta militants have issued a one-week ultimatum to the management of the Niger Development Commission (NDDC) to release the contracts the Federal Government approved...
The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr. Nsima Ekere, at the weekend said, notwithstanding the expenditure of a...
Palpable anxiety has continued to hold the entire business community of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, following speculation that the giant oil firm, Shell Petroleum, had concluded...
Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), a pressure group led by Edwin Clarke, on Saturday raised hope for a return to dialogue as a way to bring...
The vice president, Yemi Osinbajo on Monday led a Federal Government team to Delta State as part of government’s efforts to resolve the lingering Niger Delta...
Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday told the people of Gbaramatu kingdom in Delta State that attacks on pipelines in the region from 1998 till...
In further efforts to address the Niger Delta situation, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, is to visit a number of oil communities in the region. His...
There was palpable tension on Saturday within the Niger Delta region of Nigeria following a renewed threat by a volatile militant group, the Niger Delta Avengers...
What was expected to bring a long lasting peace to the Niger Delta area seems to have been lost following an announcement on Wednesday by the...
In its bid to ensure a lasting solution to the militancy in the Niger Delta, President Muhammadu Buhari has assured that his administration will persuade Niger...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has called on Niger Delta people to embrace peace in order to actualise the needed development in the oil region. Jonathan who...
A group in the oil region of Niger Delta, Itsekiri Leaders of Thought (ILOT), has expressed its support for the present militarisation of the region. In...
Normalcy may soon return to the troubled Niger Delta region, as strong indications have emerged that the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), currently before the Senate will...
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, has said that the militancy in Nigeria’s Delta region has become so recalcitrant that the Federal...
Nigeria’s economy, no doubt, has been seriously affected by the activities of militants in the Niger Delta area of the country. This has also derailed the...
Tragedy struck at Sand Field 1 and 2, popularly known as Warri Corner, in Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, when no less than eight...
The crisis in the oil rich Niger Delta region may have taken a turn for the worse, as gunmen dressed in military camouflage have shot dead...
President Muhammadu Buhari has again called on the people of Niger Delta to stop destruction of oil and gas facilities in the region. This is even...
There are indications that the Federal Government may have started making efforts to raise a dialogue/negotiation team that will meet with elders and leaders from the...
If the Nigerian government is able to resolve the Niger Delta crisis, the country will enjoy at least $3 billion cash call annually from the National...
The economic down turn in the country may take a turn for the worse, as the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, attacked Nembe 1, 2 and 3...
On November 1, President Muhammadu Buhari met with the Pan Niger Delta Elders Forum (PANDEF) after several delay and postponements. At the meeting held at the...
The much expected peace in the Niger Delta may be a mirage as militants in the region have threatened a total action against oil companies. Their...
Worried over recent bombings of oil and gas facilities in the Niger Delta, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, has appealed to...
There is palpable tension in the Niger Delta region over a higher dimension of renewed hostilities in the oil rich region by militants. This is coming...
Contrary to official claims, the oil sector in Nigeria has suffered its worst fall as the country is said to have recorded a drop of about...
Oil producing communities in the oil rich Niger Delta under the aegis of Host Communities of Nigeria, Producing Oil and Gas, HOSTCOM, have issued fresh conditions for...
The Joint Military Task Force in the Niger Delta, code-named Operation Delta Safe, says it has degraded the capacity of the Bakassi Strike Force, BSF, to...
The much talked about dialogue between the Federal Government and Niger Delta Militants received a boost on Tuesday, as Niger Delta elders under the Pan Niger...
By Annkio Briggs….. The oil-rich delta region of southern Nigeria – called Niger Delta – is larger than 70,000 square kilometers with a population larger of...
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, has said the Federal Government has not kept its own side of the agreement it reached...
The Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, have once again told President Muhammadu Buhari that using the military to solve the Niger Delta crisis is not an option....
States and local governments in the country may be in for more hard times as allocation from the Federation Account dropped by over N80 billion for...
The Nigeria Navy has again warned Niger Delta militants to desist from bombing of oil facilities or be crushed. The warning came on the heels of...
Troops of the joint military force deployed to the Niger Delta on Tuesday dispersed hundreds of ex-militants blocking the East-West road at Mbiama Community in Rivers....
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said that the objective of militants in the Niger Delta area is to colonize the country economically by sabotaging oil and...
A major oil exploring company in Nigeria, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, has started a technology-oriented venture with which to pacify the oil producing communities to allow...
Nigerian troops may have made a headway in its current campaign against Niger Delta militants, as a nominal payroll containing the names of 30 suspected members...
The Nigerian military has decared that it was in full support of effortds resolving the crisie in the Niger Delta through dialogue. It however threatened that...
Former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godsday Orubebe, has faulted his conviction by the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, insisting that he is not guilty. It...
A Niger Delta militant group operating in Cross Rivers State, Bakassi Strike Force, has attacked troops deployed at Efut Esighi waterfront in Bakassi Local Government area...
President Muhammadu Buhari has alleged that politicians who stole the nation’s money were the ones who recruited militants in the Niger Delta against his administration. The...
A militant group, Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate, MDGJM, has blown up another major crude oil delivery pipeline belonging to the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC,...
There are indications that the Federal Government has concluded arrangements for formal dialogue in the Niger Delta with a Dialogue billed to hold on Monday, September...
President Muhammadu Buhari will from September 19-23, 2016 be in New York, United States to participate in the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly...
The proposed dialogue between Niger Delta militants and the Federal Government has suffered another setback, as the Delta State Forum of Ijaw Elders, under the auspices...