Maybe it’s because the conflict between anti-oil insurgents and the government has gone on for so long, some 20 years, that there’s a bit of “Niger Delta fatigue.” Or perhaps it’s ...

Stakeholders from civil society organisations, regulatory bodies, community leaders, and advocacy groups have called on the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency on the environment in the ...

Oil and gas companies, led by Shell, Eni, Chevron, Total and ExxonMobil, spilled 110,000 barrels of oil into Nigeria’s Bayelsa state over the past 50 years, a new report says. The report ...

In 2017 with an average crude oil price of US$54.3/barrel, Nigeria lost an estimated N1.56trn, an equivalent of 38.2% of actual gross oil revenue of N1.89trn except for 2020, when average crude ...

Banner image: A boy with a fishing net stands on the oil-soaked bank of a creek area in the Niger Delta. Image by Milieudefensie via Flickr ( CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 ). Credits ...

The Niger Delta Avengers emerged in February, after claiming responsibility for an attack on an underwater pipeline run by Shell, forcing the oil giant to halt its 250,000-barrel-per-day Forcados ...

Nigeria's Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo announces the start of an operation to clean up oil spills in flags off the clean-up in Ogoniland, an area of Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta, on June 2, 2016.

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 ...

A major new inquiry into oil companies operating in the Niger Delta has been launched by the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu. The probe will investigate “environmental and human damage” in ...

Beset by poverty, corruption, violent political agitation and rampant lawlessness, the Niger Delta region continues to languish, despite being one of the most oil-rich regions in the world.

For the record and for posterity, it is imperative to state that oil found in the Niger Delta region belongs to the people of the area. Wednesday, June 25, 2025 Advertise With Us E-paper News ...