Niger Delta Clean-up: Stakeholders Demand HYPREP Removal From TSA, Professionalism, Community Participation

    COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE HIGH LEVEL ADVOCACY WORKSHOP ON THE CLEAN-UP OF THE NIGER DELTA HELD AT CORINTHIA VILLA HOTEL, ABUJA, JANUARY 24, 2019 PREAMBLE A One-Day High Level Advocacy Workshop on the Clean-up of Niger Delta was organized by the African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD) with support from Cordaid. The workshop […]

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GOV. WIKE: RIVERS SOOT CAUSED BY FG. SECURITY AGENCIES, ILLEGAL OIL REFINERS, BUNKERS

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has called on those planning to demonstrate against the presence of soot to channel their protest to the Federal Government.   He said the Federal Government is strictly responsible for the degradation and pollution of the Rivers environment.   Speaking in Government House Port Harcourt on Monday during the […]

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Shell lied, No Militant group Attack Pipeline – Niger Delta community

The people of Agge community, a boundary town between Delta and Bayelsa state, have alleged that the militant group, Niger Delta Avengers which claimed to have blown up several oil installations in the Niger Delta region in recent times was just a media hype by Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) to evade her […]

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They Don’t Care if We Exist – Crude oil Spill Impacts at Forcados By Nnimmo Bassey

14th February was celebrated as Lover’s day across the world, but in parts of the creeks of the Niger Delta it turned out to be a tragic day. While lovers dressed with a touch of red, Forcados communities were braced for the unknown with the threat of having their water ways coated with crude oil […]

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Shell snubs NOSDRA’s forum on mitigating pipeline vandalism

By Arodiegwu Eziukwu: Nigeria’s dominant operator in the oil and gas sector, Shell Petroleum Development Company​,​ stretched its arrogance and disrespect for Nigeria government agencies to another level as it stayed away from a programme organized by United Nations Development Programme to mitigate pipeline vandalism. Officials of the oil spill agency who were discussing the […]

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