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...
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, said the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, did not leave anything behind after their 16 years stay in power. According to the...
Key actors in the administration of the All Progressives Congress, APC, may be divided over the actual cause or causes of the current recession in the...
Nigerians may be in for worse times in the months to come, as the Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, Saturday,...
Luck has run out for seven illegal crude oil bunkerers in the Niger Delta area, as they have been arrested by the Nigerian Navy. The suspected...
Ijaw National Congress (INC), a socio-cultural organisation of the Ijaw ethnic nationalities, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari not to treat the Niger Delta people’s demands...
Former militant leader in the oil region of Niger Delta, Government Ekpemukpolo also known as Tompolo, has alleged that the Nigerian military is responsible for the...
Following signs that peace will soon return to the Niger Delta region, major oil and gas companies in Nigeria with operations in downstream and upstream activities have begun assessment of the actual cost of the crisis on their damaged faculties, according to an investigation. So far, an...
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, has again vowed that the Nigerian Army would crush all criminal elements in the Niger Delta to...
A fresh condition has been attached to the ongoing efforts aimed at finding lasting solution to the crisis rocking the oil producing region of the Niger...
The Joint Military Task Force in an operation at the oil bearing communities of the Awarra/Assa in Ohaji/ Egbema council area of Imo State have reportedly...
The Nigerian Army’s Operation Crocodile Smile in the Niger Delta ran into troubled waters on Monday, when four soldiers who were part of the operation died...
Despite persistent condemnations trailing the deployment of the military to the Niger Delta, the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has thrown his weight behind it....
The United Nations, UN, has painted a gloomy picture of Nigeria in a recently released report, saying the country is one of the poorest and most...
An Ijaw national leader, Chief Edwin Clark has put in motion, machinery to settle the rift between the former President Goodluck Jonathan, and the Okah brothers....
The Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, on Sunday said arrangements had been concluded by NAF to deploy additional personnel to the Niger...
THE Olu of Warri, His Majesty, Ogiame Ikenwoli, yesterday, disowned some of his subjects “claiming to be representing either the Olu or the Itsekiri people” in...
The international oil market witnessed a slight price increase of 1.3 per cent Monday at the news that the militant group Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) announced...
The trial of a former Minister of Niger Delta, Godsday Orubebe, was on Tuesday stalled as he was absent from court due to what his lawyer...
A former military governor of Kaduna State, Colonel Abubakar Dangiwa Umar (rtd), has warned President Muhammadu against the use of military force on the Niger Delta...
The rampaging Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, has said it is done with attacks on oil installations in the country, and ready to embrace dialogue. The militant...
President Muhammadu Buhari has come under fire for threatening to give Niger Delta militants the Boko Haram treatment if they fail to embrace dialogue and give...
President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government has vowed to deal with Niger Delta Militants should they refuse to dialogue with the Federal Government. The President said this...
President Muhammadu Buhari has said his administration targets putting Nigeria in the top 100 countries in the world in the ease of doing business ranking...
The resurgence of militancy in the Niger Delta region and the renewed agitation for the state of Biafra by the South-East are mere reactions to marginalization...
A faction of the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, Reformed Niger Delta Avengers, RNDA, has named Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka and a former Governor of Abia...
The much anticipated dialogue with Niger Delta Militants by the Federal Government, may have started on a wrong footing as Ijaw traditional rulers have said they...
The Nigerian military has said recent fears over likely federal forces offensive in the Niger Delta were unnecessary as there are no such plans. Chief of...
Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, says the security challenges facing Nigeria have made the development of middle cadre officers on...
The Nigerian Army Saturday, said its troops have killed five militants in the Niger Delta while others were wounded. According to a statement by the Acting...
The threat by the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, to declare a Níger Delta Republic on October 1 has received the backing of the Indigenous People of...
The Federal Government has been provided with a golden opportunity to end the renewed militancy in the Niger Delta, as Traditional rulers and other stakeholders from...
Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, on Thursday lashed out at the Nigerian media, saying he would not talk to them any longer due to what he described...
In a move that may open a can of worms in the oil rich Niger Delta, the militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, on Wednesday, said...
Nigeria will spend close to $2.5 billion to cleanse oil spills and repair damaged oil facilities resulting from activities of militants in the Niger Delta region,...
Former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, retd., has said the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, is determined to rescue the abducted students of Government Secondary...
Senate President, Bukola Saraki, will on October 5, 2016 know if his fresh application to stop his trial before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, will ...
