Nigeria's state-owned NNPC Ltd on Tuesday started drilling for oil and gas at a field in northern Nigeria that has reserves of 1 billion barrels, as the country seeks to produce crude outside the ...

CSOs attribute food scarcity in Niger Delta communities to oil, gas pollution Troops arrest 43 oil thieves, uncover 27 illegal bunkering sites in Niger Delta World Environment Day: YEAC-Nigeria ...

Troops of the 6 Division, Nigerian Army, have arrested 39 suspected oil thieves and destroyed 18 illegal refining sites in a sustained crackdown against crude oil theft and related crimes in the ...

Shell stopped production in Ogoniland more than 20 years ago amid deadly unrest from residents protesting environmental damage, but the Trans-Niger Pipeline still sends crude from oil fields in ...

Ending oil theft in the Niger Delta, By Majeed Dahiru The outsourcing of the security of pipelines and other oil and gas production infrastructure was an aberration, in the first instance, that ...

NO CLEAN UP, NO JUSTICE The Niger Delta, Nigeria is one of the 10 most important wetland and coastal marine ecosystems in the world, and is home to some 31 million people. Sadly, the people living in ...

Personnel of the Nigerian Navy, Forward Operating Base Escravos, have deactivated eight illegal refining sites in the creeks of the Niger Delta region.Approximately 20,710 litres of stolen crude oil ...

He said Tinubu’s nomination of Adama, who hails from the Niger Delta, showed that the President understood the issues of marginalization of the region in the oil and gas sector and was willing ...

The Niger Delta’s history with oil began in the 1930s, when Shell started exploration here. Shell exported its first barrel of oil in 1958 , when Nigeria was still a British colony.

The Niger Delta region, home to more than 6.5 million people who depend on fishing and farming, has all-year-round agricultural production activities by virtue of being in the country’s ...

Kolmani Oil: We’ll avoid mistakes of Niger Delta — Gombe Governor “We have learnt our lessons. With the developments and what has been happening around the Niger Delta and other oil ...

The discovery of oil in commercial quantity in the north came 62 years after the oil and gas discovery and drilling took place in Oloibiri in South-South Bayelsa states. The South-South region, also ...