President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed to deal decisively with the issue of militancy in the Niger Delta region. In a nationwide address to mark his one year in office, the president lamented the effect of attacks on oil installations. “If the militants and vandals are testing our resolve, they are much mistaken. We shall apprehend […]
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The minister of state for petroleum resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, Adams Oshiomhole, governor of Edo state, were among the government officials that on Wednesday met with stakeholders from the Niger Delta region over the resurgence of militancy. Addressing journalists at the end of the meeting, which held in Abuja, Kachikwu expressed the federal government’s readiness to […]
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In the run up to the 2015 presidential election, Sheikh (Dr.) Ahmad Gumi wrote a letter to President Goodluck Jonathan and retired General Muhammadu Buhari, the then presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), advising them to sacrifice their ambitions in order to avoid a possible crisis. In spite of Gumi’s advice, the duo ran […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari needs to address grievances in the Delta region where militants have been blowing up oil pipelines in a conflict that has become a “major concern”, a senior British official said on Saturday. The swamps of the southern Delta have been hit by a series of attacks on pipelines and other oil and […]
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The Center for Peace and Environmental Justice, CEPEJ, a Niger Delta based NGO, has urged the Niger Delta Avengers to stop further destruction of the deteriorated environment. The Center believes that although it is important to peacefully agitate for the development of the region, it is wrong to destroy the environment in the process because […]
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The defence headquarters (DHQ) has vowed to deal decisively with militants in the Niger Delta. Rabe Abubakar, defence spokesman, said this in statement issued on Tuesday. Abubakar said the militants were threatening the economic lifeline of the country, and the military would not hesitate to do all within its powers to “crush” them. “The defence headquarters […]
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The Niger Delta region has been noted by environmentalists globally as the most polluted region in the world and the worst routine gas flaring sites in the world for many years. For over five decades, the region has been experiencing oil spills, gas flaring and other forms of pollution by international oil companies. Due to […]
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Theft of crude oil from the pipeline network of Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary fell to 25,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 2015, the company said on Monday, roughly 32 percent less than the previous year. The number of sabotage-related spills on the SPDC network also declined to 93 in 2015, compared with 139 the previous year, […]
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Nigeria is a leader in the African continent on many fronts. The country called Nigeria has the continents highest population, largest economy and highest deposit of oil. Nigeria’s estimate was 2,427,000 barrels of crude oil per day followed by Angola and Algeria with 1,756,000 and 1,721,000 barrels per day respectively. The history, economics and […]
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A new version of the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, which removes the strategic Host Community Development Fund as proposed in the botched PIB is set to commence legislative deliberations in the next few days just as the Ijaw People’s Development Initiative, IPDI has said that the attempted removal of of host communities fund could be […]
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