Militants in the Niger Delta who came together under the auspices of Isourhobo Bombers have suspended their planned attack on oil and gas pipelines in some...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against governors of oil producing states in Nigeria for their failure to account for the spendings...
The international energy company, Shell has accepted to pay €15 million in compensation to three farmers and their villages in Niger Delta. The farmers with the...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has challenged governors of the nine oil producing states in Nigeria to make public, details of spending of the...
Troops of Operation Delta Safe have destroyed 81 illegal refining sites in the last two weeks in Niger Delta. The Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen....
Ex-militants of the Second Phase of the Presidential Amnesty Program (PAP) have vowed to resist the 2023 presidential campaigns of various political parties if their stipends...
The Group Chief Executive Office of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari, has given reasons why the outfit had to engage the services...
Members of the House of Representatives from seven Niger Delta states have called on the Minister of Humanitarian and Disaster Management, Sadiya Umar Farouq, to immediately...
Unknown gunmen have reportedly attacked a speedboat belonging to the security outfit of former Niger Delta militant leader, Government Ekpenupolo, aka Tompolo, who was recently awarded...
The Nigerian Navy has destroyed a vessel seized with stolen crude by a private security company commanded by former Niger Delta militant, Government Ekpemupolo, aka Tompolo...
The Federal Government on Friday confirmed the arrest of 210 suspected crude oil thieves in the Niger Delta. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai...
The Nigerian Navy has set ablaze assets worth over N30 billion belonging to illegal refinery operators in the Niger Delta region. Commodore Adedotun Ayo-Vaughan, Director of...
Mixed reactions have been trailing the decision of the Nigerian Government to award a multi-million dollar contract to ex-Niger Delta militant, Government Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo. Ripples...
Troops of Operation Delta Safe have arrested 10 suspected pipeline vandals and two high-profile sea pirates in the Niger Delta in the last two weeks. The...
Former militant leader of the Niger Delta Volunteer Force (NDVF), Asari Dokubo, says Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, is the “worst of the worst” in the...
Oil and gas companies operating in the Niger Delta spilled 1,545 barrels of crude oil, an equivalent of 246,000 litres, in three months, from January to...
The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, on February 19, expressed the willingness of the Federal Government to correct the distortions in the development of Niger Delta...
Pa Edwin Clark, the leader of Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), has written an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, accusing him of being the cause of...
For the record and for posterity, it is imperative to state that oil found in the Niger Delta region belongs to the people of the area....
I have followed with keen interest the debate between Obasanjo and Edwin Clark as regards who owns the oil. Is it Nigeria or the Niger Delta?...
“How far? Is it true that your boss is going back to Aso Villa? I read that some of his aides, I don’t know whether you...
The Niger Delta Peoples’ Forum (NDPF) has slammed the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, for allegedly denying his statement on the delay in...
The Niger Delta Youth Council (NDYC) has slammed the Bayelsa State Government for saying that the spill at Nembe, an area of the state, could be...
A new militant group in Niger Delta, Bayan-Men, on Wednesday claimed responsibility for the destruction of the Agip Oil Company of Nigeria (NAOC) facility at Obosi...
Angry Niger Delta women under the auspices of Wailing Women of Niger Delta (WWND) have given President Muhammadu Buhari a one-week ultimatum to inaugurate a substantive...
Controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has, once again, kicked against any attempt at labelling Northern bandits as terrorists, and has instead advocated for a blanket...
The immediate past Caretaker Committee Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom State, Ita Udosen, has warned those circulating forged names from Saturday’s...
The delay in the constitution of the substantive board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is due to the selfish and ulterior motives of Niger...
Prince Utieyinoritsetsola Emiko was on Saturday crowned Ogiame Atuwatse III, the Olu of Warri at an elaborate ceremony, at the Itsekiri Kingdom in Warri, Delta State....
The governor of Rivers State, Nyesome Wike has stated that the three percent equity allocated to host communities in the Petroleum Industry Act is not enough....
The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has rejected the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) passed by the National Assembly. President Muhammadu Buhari signed the PIB on Monday....
In the wake of the resolution of the National Assembly to ensure a three percent allocation to host communities within the framework of the Petroleum Industry...
In the week under review, the Federal Government announced the capture and repatriation of the leader of the proscribed Igbo separatist group, Indigenous People of Biafra...
President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to the threat by a militant group, the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) to resume hostilities in the oil-rich region. The NDA...
Leaders of thought in the Niger Delta have given President Muhammadu Buhari a three month ultimatum to restructure Nigeria or they will be forced to break...
Recently an assemblage of Northern groups (numbering more than three scores and a dozen) under the auspices of the Northern Consensus Movement had disclosed that it...
An Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has called on the Federal Government to accord bandits and herdsmen the kind of treatment that was given to the...
Ex-Niger Delta militant and leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Chief Government Ekpemupolo, aka Tompolo, has warned Minister for Niger...
A group under the auspices of Niger Delta Volunteers for Good Governance (NDVGG) has sworn to join forces with the ex-militant leader in the oil-rich region,...
Militant groups in the Niger Delta region have threatened to shut down major oil flow stations, wells and crude delivery lines of the Nigerian National Petroleum...
Ijaw Youths under the umbrella body of the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) worldwide, have threatened to reenact the 12 days revolution declared in 1966 by their...
The continuous face off between Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), oil companies and host communities came at a huge cost for Nigeria’s oil revenue in 2020....
The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has mocked the Chief of Army Staff (CoAS), Lt.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, and the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim...
The Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, on Tuesday, said it would extend the probe of its N6.2 billion COVID-19 palliative fund to the...
An ex- Niger Delta agitator, Mujahid Asari Dokubo, on Sunday declared himself the leader of the new “Biafra de facto customary government.” Dokubo, who made the...
The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has opposed plans by the Federal Government to spend the £4.2 million loot recovered from James Ibori on projects outside...
Data from the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) indicate that oil spills and pollution occur In the Niger Delta area due to sabotage...
The Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has cautioned militants under the auspices of the Supreme Egbesu Liberation Fighters (SELF) to jettison violence under the guise of the...
Did the activities of militants in the Niger Delta qualify as crime? Hell Yes! Militancy and kidnapping were a profitable pursuit in that oil-rich region in...
Royal Dutch Shell has expressed concern for its Nigerian onshore oil operations following continued theft and sabotage, describing it as becoming a headache. Speaking to Journalists...
