By Udeme Akpan, Energy Editor THE governor of Bayelsa State, Douye Diri, has accused oil companies of polluting the environment in the Niger Delta. He said because of the exploration and production of crude oil and gas without much attention to the environment, the flora and fauna have been destroyed in the region. Speaking at […]

By UDO IBUOT IT is probable that the export of crude oil exploited from Oil Well-1 at Oloibiri in Ogbia local government area in Bayelsa State and other onshore crude oil wells by Shell D’Arcy, later renamed Shell Petroleum Development Company Limited, SPDC, in 1958, benchmarked the environmental despoliation and pollution of the Niger Delta region. […]

Air Component of Operation Whirl Punch on Saturday targeted terrorists’ hideouts in Shiroro Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State…

It happened exactly 24 years ago.  On 31 March 2000, the then Delta state Governor, His Excellency Chief James OnanefeIbori, unfurled his true colours. The Fourth Republic was all of 10 months old and here and there, its main actors were still settling down, learning the ropes. But Ibori was of a different stuff; he had convoked […]

The Chief of Defence Staff, Christopher Musa, has justified why the Nigerian Army has been facing difficulties in the fight to end oil bunkering and theft in the Niger Delta region.

A former Niger Delta militant leader, Asari Dokubo said the people of Ijaw are angry with the President Bola Tinubu-led federal government over the ongoing political crisis in Rivers State.

Ex-warlords from the Niger Delta region have issued a 7-day ultimatum to all multinational oil companies operating in the area to ensure they pay them all outstanding stipends and entitlements. 

Leaders of the Niger Delta have paid a solidarity visit to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike for further reconciliations between him and Governor Sim Fubara of River State.

Women, youths and leadership of Egbemo-Angalabiri Domain host to Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, in Ekeremor local government area of Bayelsa state, have shut down the company’s flow station at Opukushi in a protest over breach of the Global Memorandum of Understanding, GMoU, between the duo.

FORMER Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South leader, Chief Edwin Clark and other leaders from the Niger Delta region have asked the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to accord special attention to the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP.

A former Niger Delta agitator, Asari Dokubo has vowed that there will be zero oil theft in the Niger Delta region.

By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South, Gabriel Enogholase, Chioma Onuegbu and Ozioruvwa Aliu ACTIVISTS and other stakeholders in the Niger-Delta, weekend, bemoaned that the oil-rich region has been on a shock therapy for some time now, following what they described as outrageous policies and actions of the Federal Government that have plunged the Niger Delta […]

ILLEGAL refining operations, popularly known as Kpo-fire in the Niger Delta, is causing more harm to the region’s already blighted environment as witnessed in the blanket of soot that oftentimes enveloped the skyline of Bayelsa and Rivers states, according to stakeholders.

By Chioma Onuegbu, UYO Senator Christopher Ekpenyong representing Ikot Ekpene senatorial district in Akwa Ibom State has said it would be unfair for the Federal Government to relocate National Petroleum Investment Management Services, NAPIMS, to a state that is not in Niger Delta. Ekpenyong, who spoke, yesterday, while reacting to Federal Government’s planned movement of […]

By Etop Ekanem Chairman, House  Committee on Oil and Gas and Environment, Delta State House of Assembly, Pullah Ekpotuayerin, has tasked multinationals in Niger Delta to ensure adequate protection of the environment by not dumping toxic waste in the sea and nearby forest to endanger the inhabitants and aquatic creatures. Ekpotuayerin stated this in Asaba […]