The Ijaw Youth Council has warned oil companies to comply with its ultimatum for them to relocate their headquarters to the Niger Delta region in 90...
Tension in Nigeria continues to mount as a fresh demand to split the country into five republics to be known as the United Republics of Nigeria...
The tension that enveloped Nigeria’s political space with a November 1 deadline issued the Federal Government by Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) to implement its 16-point agenda...
Following the alarm raised by Edwin Clark over a letter expressing unease and impatience with the Federal Government’s stated delay in facilitating engagement, NIGER DELTA Revolutionary...
The Ijaw Youth Congress (IYC) yesterday accused a northern ‘cabals’ in the government of President Muhammadu Buhari of frustrating efforts by the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo...
Convener of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF and Ijaw national leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to, as a matter of urgency,...
A fresh crisis seems to be brewing in the Niger Delta region following a clamour by the youths in the area over delay in payment of...
The final withdrawal of oil prospecting licences issued in 2001, 2002 and 2003 for the Utapate Field, 01, 03 and 05 in Delta State, believed to...
A new twist has been added to the suspended militant attacks on Nigeria’s oil facilities, resulting in the reported killing of no fewer than six soldiers...
Three states, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom and Rivers, have filed a N500 trillion law suit at the Supreme Court against the Federal Government challenging its negligence in...
Security operatives in Nigeria have destroyed more than 15 illegal refinery facilities used by some youths in the Niger Delta area for crude oil refinning. A...
Communities in the Niger Delta region have taken the lead in efforts to take advantage of the federal government’s plan to develop modular refineries. Already at...
The Senate, on Thursday, raised the alarm over growing tensions in the Niger Delta region, following the alleged refusal of the Federal Government, to offset five...
Some militant leaders in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region on Thursday gave new conditions for President Muhammadu Buhari to meet, in order to ensure total peace in...
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....
