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 […]

FOUNDER of Belemaoil Producing Limited, Tein Jack-Rich, has said resorting to lawlessness has not and would never be a workable solution for redressing the question of deprivations, underdevelopment and neglect of the Niger Delta and its people under the Nigerian nation.