The Eastern Naval Command of the Nigerian Navy, on Monday, disclosed that the Navy saved the country of N95bn through the operations of the command between...
The Nigerian Army has seized about 5 million litres of stolen crude oil worth billions of naira in Rivers State. The General Officer Commanding (GOC), 6...
Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested six suspects for alleged criminal conspiracy, illegal dealing in petroleum products, and impersonation in Akwa Ibom. The...
The House of Representatives Special Committee on Oil Theft has resolved to collaborate with the military and other security agencies to tackle the scourge in the...
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has begged traditional rulers in Rivers State to help the federal government in tackling oil theft and pipeline vandalism in...
Nigeria recorded 172 crude oil theft incidents and also detected 67 illegal refineries in one week between November 11-17, 2023. This was disclosed by the Nigerian...
Nigeria has lost the sum of N4.3 trillion worth of crude oil in 7,143 pipeline vandalism cases within five years, the federal government has revealed. These...
The House of Representatives ad-hoc committee investigating crude oil theft on Saturday re-invited the Group Chief Executive Officer of Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC), Melee...
The Chairman of the House of Representatives ad hoc committee set up to investigate crude oil theft, Kabiru Rurum, said those involved in oil theft in...
The Joint Task Force (JTF) deployed to protect oil facilities in the Niger Delta, Operation Delta Safe (OPDS), on Sunday released an impounded vessel, MT Praisel,...
Operatives of Daven Oil and Security Enterprises, a pipeline security contractors recently engaged by the Federal Government, along with officers of the Joint Task Force (JTF)...
Asari Dokubo, the self-styled Niger Delta activist and revolutionary who came into prominence during the struggle for self-determination in the Niger Delta finally got the attention...
The Nigerian Navy on Saturday challenged the ex-Niger Delta militant leader, Asari Dokunbo, to name the individuals in the military behind crude oil theft in the...
A former militant leader in the Niger Delta, Asari Dokubo, on Friday, accused the military of complicity in the oil theft in the Niger Delta. Dokubo,...
The Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, on Wednesday urged Nigerian Navy to work closely with the state government in checking crude oil theft, and other criminal...
Nigerian Upstream Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has blamed measurement inaccuracies as being responsible for around 40% of crude losses in the Nigerian petroleum industry, rather than theft...
Crude oil production in Nigeria fell by -11.6 per cent (or 163,000 barrels per day) last year to 1.235 million barrels per day (mbpd) in December...
The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has revealed that Nigeria lost 619.7 million barrels of crude oil worth $46.16 billion or N16.25 trillion in 12...
About 700,00 barrels of crude oil are lost per day to oil theft in Nigeria, the Chief Upstream Investment Officer at the NNPC Upstream Investment Management...
The government of Equatorial Guinea says it has recovered a vessel suspected of being engaged in illegal crude export, and handed same over to the Nigerian...
The spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, said on Friday the ruling party was not responsible for the prevalent oil...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has implored the Federal Government to commence investigations into the operations of illegal oil pipelines from 2001 to date,...
An illegal pipeline connected to a 48-inch Trans Forcados Export Trunk line has been discovered by Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited (TSSNL) in Delta State. Tantita...
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Cooperation, and Integration in Africa/NEPAD, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, last week, vehemently denied a report that he stole $41.8 million from the...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has declared its intention to file a lawsuit against the Federal Government over oil theft in the country. The...
As Nigeria continues to struggle with oil theft, Chief Timipre Sylva, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, has disclosed that there are over 265 illegal refineries...
The Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, Mele Kyari, has said Nigerians are behind the vandalism of oil pipeline in...
The Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, on Friday challenged Nigerians to find solutions to rising crude oil theft and insecurity in the country instead of focusing...
Oil giant Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has blamed Nigeria’s economic woes, including the free fall of the naira value and high cost of living on...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has commenced the investigation of a Venezuelan and four Nigerians arrested by the Nigerian Navy for alleged illegal oil...
Group Chief Executive Officer of Oando Plc, Wale Tinubu, has said 20% of oil production is lost to oil theft, reflecting Nigerian government’s inability to prevent...
The Federal government of Nigeria has revealed that a whopping N434 billion (about $1 billion) was lost to oil theft between January and March this year....
A report has revealed that Nigeria loses between N30 and N60 trillion annually to oil theft, illegal refining, and pipeline vandalism. The report was the product...
The lead story in This Day newspaper of December 30, 2021 brought the year to a close with a reminder of one of the many ills...
Nigeria in three months (August to October) has lost over N556 billion worth of oil revenue due to the shutdown of eight oil terminals. The shutdown were...
A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos has convicted and sentenced five Indians to one year imprisonment each for oil theft. A statement by Wilson...
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Melee Kyari, said on Tuesday Nigeria lost about $750 million to oil theft in 2019....
Nigeria lost a mind-blowing sum of N4.57 trillion to oil theft activities in the four years between 2015 and 2018, estimates of the Nigeria Natural Resource...
Over 57 Nigerians, seven Sri-Lankans and two Ghanaians, suspected to be involved in oil bunkering, were handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)...
The Managing Director of Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production, Victor Okonkwo said on Wednesday that the company has lost about four million barrels of crude to...
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has revealed the involvement of security agencies in oil theft in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The governor called...
A joint operation by troops of the Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger delta and a local surveillance group has brought about the seizure of...
The Nigerian Navy Friday said it destroyed over 1,000 illegal refineries and arrested several suspected oil thieves in the Niger Delta between January and September. The...
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...
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...
As part of the drives to fish out oil thieves under the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan, President Muhammadu Buhari may also look into the...
