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...
Women in the oil rich Niger Delta region, under the aegis of Mothers of Oil Producing Communities of Niger Delta (MOPROCOND) have threatened to protest nude...
Angry Ijaw youths on Monday blocked the East-West Road to protest the appointment of Effiong Okon-Akwa as Sole Administrator of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC)....
Nigerian employees of the Anglo-Dutch oil company Shell ordered the deliberate vandalisation of oil pipelines for personal gain, a documentary in the Netherlands has reported. Dutch...
Host Communities in Nigeria Producing Oil and Gas (HOSTCOM) have decried renewed hostilities in the nation’s oil rich Niger Delta, leading to resurgence of violence and...
President Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to stay action on the seven-point demand made by South-South governors and leaders, including restructuring and true federalism, until governors...
Power supply to the Niger Delta area could receive a boost anytime soon as General Electric Company has just completed the rehabilitation of three power plants...
The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Thursday described the Edo State governorship election as a fight for the destiny of the Niger Delta region. He...
The Defence Headquarters said on Thursday troops of Operation Silent HEAT had rescued 13 foreigners who were abducted in Lome waters in the South South part...
The Federal Government has been urged not to distort the fragile peace in the Niger Delta region over the rumoured scrapping of the Presidential Amnesty programme....
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday told Niger Deltans that his government planned to bring more developmental projects to the region. He made the promise at the...
The Defence Headquarters on Wednesday said that troops of Operation Delta Safe invaded a purported pirates/militants camp in the Niger Delta and killed six of them....
Minister for Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio on Monday told the House of Representatives that about sixty per cent of contracts at the Niger Delta Development...
The minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio has denied that about N40 billion was missing from the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). He stated this...
The National Assembly Joint Committee on Niger Delta Affairs has adjourned its ongoing probe of alleged corruptions in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to Tuesday,...
The quality of fuel imported into Nigeria is so dirty that it cannot be sold in countries with “higher and better-implemented standards,” a report has claimed....
Thousands of Nigerians are requesting British judges to grant them liberty to sue Royal Dutch Shell Plc in London for environmental degradation caused by oil spills...
Six suspected ringleaders of a notorious kidnapping syndicate, operating in some Niger Delta states, have been arrested by the police in Bayelsa State. They were arrested...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan in Saturday denied making comments being ascribed to him on the position of the Niger Delta over agitations for a sovereign state...
The Minister of Niger Delta, Godswill Akpabio, Friday faulted the Senate probe into the alleged mismanagement of N40 billion by the Interim Management Committee of the...
An alleged plot to reinstate suspended Prof. Charles Dokubo as the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) has forced some Niger Delta youths to pen...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, said on Monday he would not appeal for the reinstatement of Prof. Charles Dokubo as the Head of the Presidential Amnesty...
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that law enforcement agencies had recovered over N3.7 billion from contractors and former directors of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC)....
Some ex-militants in the oil-rich Niger Delta had protested the suspension of the Special Adviser to the President on the Amnesty Programme, Prof. Charles Dokubo. The...
The Joint Military Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta has confirmed the death of no fewer than 4 soldiers in an ambush by unknown gunmen...
As different regions of the country set up local security outfits and other planning to do so, the Ijaw Elders’ Forum (IEF) has called for the...
Sixteen years ago, precisely on Friday, December 3, 2004, at the Sheraton Hotels and Towers, Ikeja, Lagos, I listened with real curiosity to the current Cordinator,...
THE Re-formed Niger Delta Avengers (RNDA) and a coalition of nine militant groups that ceased hostilities in 2016 have asked the Federal Government to disregard the...
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) says it has inaugurated a 50-member committee to audit and document projects and contracts awarded in nine Niger Delta states....
A former governor of Kogi State, Clarence Olufemi, on Saturday described President Muhammadu Buhari’s promise that he would not stay in office beyond 2023 as a...
The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) on Monday accused President Muhammadu Buhari of waging war against the oil-rich Niger Delta region. The Buhari’s administration, according to IYC,...
A few days after the United States Department of Justice indicted the Chief Executive Officer of Air Peace, Allen Onyema, for money laundering and other allied...
The governor of Bayelsa, Seriake Dickson has lamented the activities of oil companies in the state, and the entire Niger Delta region. He described oil companies...
Nigeria Army on Friday said criminals in Niger Delta communities would be crushed without mercy with Exercise Crocodile Smile 4. The General Officer Commanding (GOC), 6...
Jones Abiri, a detained investigative journalist who is standing trial for alleged links to armed militancy in the Niger Delta, was on Friday released on bail....
The government of Akwa Ibom has described as a lie President Muhammadu Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Ita Enang’s claims on...
No fewer than 56 former Niger Delta militants have dragged the Federal Government to court over unpaid entitlements, which spans for a period of four years....
It is a time-honoured suggestion that during a period of rapid economic growth, nations, as well as corporate organizations, must continue investing even though it may...
The Akwa Ibom State government on Monday said it would no longer tolerate killer herdsmen in the state. This came as suspected herdsmen attacked some communities...
The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, on Friday ordered immediate suspension of recruitments into Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). This was announced in...
President Muhammadu Buhari, in the early hours of today (Tuesday), delivered an Independence Day speech to mark the 59th independence anniversary of the Federal Republic of...
It is a common knowledge that the Ijaw Youths Council recently issued a release which among other remarks stated that; if the government should reintroduce what...
Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Akwaga Enyia, has expressed the commission’s commitment to addressing the low rate of completion of its awarded...
