Tag: niger delta
Akpabio calls for improved funding of NDDC
Sen. Godswill Akpabio, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, has called for improved funding for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to enhance the infrastructural...
Osinbajo meets Sylva, Otuaro to avert tension in Niger Delta
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday met with the Minister of State for Petroleum Timipre Sylva and the deputy governor of Delta State Kingsley...
7 killed in oil installation blast in N’Delta oil field
Seven people were killed in an explosion at the Gbetiokun oil field in southern Nigeria’s Niger Delta region during the installation of a ladder...
Forensic audit is the solution to decay in Niger Delta –...
The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC has touted the forensic audit of the account of the commission ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari as the...
EAST – WEST ROAD: Government orders Contractors back to site
The Federal Government has ordered the contractors handling the construction of the East - West road sections 1 to 4 to return to site...
Niger-Delta War Lord Tompolo Joins Olumba Olumba Sect, Receives Baptism In...
One of the dreaded exleader of militant groups which operated within the axis of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria at the weekend paid...
Groups decry Lack of adequate Community Involvement in the JIV Processes
Environmentalimplementation of recommendations of UNEP reports, oil spills and oil spill clean ups in the Niger Delta have decried what they described as systematic...
Five ExxonMobil staff kidnapped in Akwa Ibom
Unknown gunmen on Wednesday kidnapped five ExxonMobil staff at its Floating Storage and Offloading Vessel (FSO) at the Qua Iboe Terminal Ibeno in Akwa...
Insight: Why Nigeria’s restive oil region will only accept Jonathan
The most impressive building in Otuoke, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan's home town in the oil producing Niger Delta, is the multi-storey mansion complex he...
Keep your violence out of our community, Ogu people tell politicians
Politicians who may have been planning to use youths as political thugs for the violent rigging of the 2015 elections now rescheduled to start...
Reuters reporter in Niger Delta arrested by DSS, released
Men from the Department of State Security (DSS) over the weekend invaded the home of the Niger Delta correspondent of the Thomson Reuters in...
2015 Elections: NGO sensitises Niger Delta communities on civic and voters...
In its bid to ensure that Niger Delta communities participate actively in promoting a peaceful and credible 2015 elections, Leadership Initiative for Transformation and...
Jonathan Or Not, N’Delta Will Resume Militancy This Year – Briggs
A Niger Delta activist and the national convener of the Niger Delta Self-Determination Movement (NDSDM), Ms. Annkio Briggs, has vowed that whether President Goodluck...
War threats: Niger Delta ex-militants give Danjuma 7-day ultimatum
Former defence minister, Gen. Yakubu Danjuma, yesterday got a seven-day ultimatum from a group of ex-militants in the Niger Delta to withdraw his statement...
Ex-militants pass vote of confidence on President Jonathan
Leaders of the third batch ex-militants under the Federal Government amnesty programme in Edo State have passed a vote of confidence on President Goodluck...
Nigeria arrests 12 including two Britons for oil theft
Nigeria has arrested two Britons and 10 of its own citizens on charges of trying to bribe a military officer to facilitate oil theft,...
Nigeria spends $4 billion annually on vehicles importation
President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday reassured Nigerians that the implementation of National Automotive Policy approved last year by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) is...
