The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency [NESREA], has said the nation's oil industry has not done enough to improve the environment.

The Group Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Engineer Abubakar Lawal Yar' adua has revealed that the Nigeria-Gazprom gas exploration deal is inconclusive, just as he said that European Union and Gazprom of Russia will finally form

Governor Alhaji Ibrahim Idris has in a renewed effort embarked on a programme that will facilitate infrastructural development of the state in order to boost economic activities and provide employment opportunities for the teaming population of the state.

THE Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), weekend, denied that its fighters were involved in the attack on the Agip-operated Tebidaba flow station in Bayelsa State on December 25, 2008, as alleged by the military Joint Task

Three militants were killed and four others arrested yesterday when men of the military Joint Task force (JTF) engaged members of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) in a gun battle at the Tebidaba oil flow

PRESIDENT Umaru Yar'Adua has directed the Niger-Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to pay more attention to macro development of the Niger-Delta region by focusing mainly on projects that will open up the region.

CALL it playing with fire. That is precisely what these young men are doing.

Long queues have again appear in filling stations in Kano State, following scarcity of fuel, which had led to increase in transport fares.

I was ecstatic two weeks ago when I learnt that a friend and former colleague, Dr Lanre (Rilwan) Babalola, was going to be appointed Minister of Power by President Umaru Yar'Adua.

THE Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Chief Uffot Ekaette, has said completion of the East-West road tops the agenda of the new ministry. Also, on the front burner are employment of youths, community development and curbing of militancy to make

THE African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved a $78.13m (about sh148b) loan to finance a key electricity transmission line project.

Akwa Ibom is a blessed state, located in the rain forest and Bible belt of Nigeria. It has a lot of natural resources but the most important are crude oil and Chief Ufot Ekaette.

Frustrated by the activities of militants in the Niger Delta and the consequence on crude oil production, the House of Representatives has indicated that it may evolve punitive legislations targeted at politicians perceived to have recruited thugs during electioneering campaigns

DMT mobile toilet brand has established a bio gas plant designed to process and convert sanitation waste into cooking gas, even as it slashes prices by 15 per cent.

The United Niger Delta Energy Development and Security Strategy (UNDEDSS) has vowed to monitor allocations and fund utilisation in the Niger Delta next year. The UNDEDSS, a coalition of Niger Delta Ethnic Societies said the move was one of its

The senator representing Ebonyi South senatorial district, Senator Anyim Ude, has decried the epileptic supply of electricity to his zone, lamenting that the indigenes had suffered untold hardship as a result of the ugly development.

The Delta State Government is now set for the N100 billion contract awards for its power projects, just as investors for the programme have set terms for the local content participation policy.

A cute shortage of fuel (petrol) hit the Adamawa State capital (Yola) in the last 20 days, with the roadside "black marketers" cashing in on the situation. It is only the mega filling station that has been selling the product.

Ijaw Youths, yesterday staged a peaceful protest in support of the dismissal of the former Chairman of the Economic and Finacial Crime Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, tasking the Federal Government to investigate the alleged allocation of an oil well

The much-awaited massive shake-up in Nigeria's oil industry is under way, with President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua poised to implement structural and fiscal changes in the sector - which provides Nigeria over 80 per cent of its revenue and 95 per