The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has expressed concern over the escalating insecurity in the Niger Delta and the recurring disruption of oil production in the country.
The Anglo Dutch Oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), has called on communities in the Niger Delta region to form themselves into registered foundations, in order to be able to benefit from the pool of funds available for the
The Federal Government and other relevant agencies have been called upon to prevail on Shell Petroleum Development Company to stop gas flaring at Owaza, an oil-rich community in Abia.
Former Adviser to President Olusegun Obasanjo on Project Monitoring and Implementation, Professor Julius Ihonvbere, has asked the Federal Government to drop Ambassador Ibrahim Gambari as the Chairman of the Niger Delta Summit since the stakeholders from the zone have rejected
A group, All Youths Association of Nigeria (AYAN) has expressed optimism that the proposed Niger Delta Summit under the leadership of Professor Ibrahim Gambari would establish workable solutions to the restive region.
An engineering team from ELTEL Networks of Sweden has arrived in the country to collaborate with the Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC) on a two-week survey for 66kv Transmission and 22kv distribution lines.
A Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria [PFN], Rivers State chapter, Apostle Eugene Ogu, has described the the proposed summit on the Niger Delta as an agenda of Northern elite.
Action Congress (AC) has warned that the kind of reckless and unguarded comments being made in certain quarters about the Niger Delta in recent times can only inflame passion and worsen the crisis in the volatile region.
Power Up Gambia, an organisation founded by Kathryn Cunningham, a 22-year old undergraduate student, recently donated a solar system to the Sulayman Junkung General Hospital in Bwiam.
The Federal Government has reversed the award of three oil blocks - Oil Prospecting Leases (OPLs) 226, 2005 and 2006 - which were awarded to two Indian oil companies, Essar Exploration and Production Limited and Sterling Global Resources Limited, during
Minister of State for Energy (Petroleum), Mr. Odein ajumogobia, SAN at the weekend shed more light on why the Director of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Mr. Tony Chukwueke was sent on compulsory leave following the current investigations into
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Engineer Abubakar Lawal Yar'adua, says solution to the Niger Delta crisis is a collective responsibility.
Millions of Nigerians have been groaning under the persistent blackout in the last three weeks - a situation that was caused partly by 32 cases of system collapse recorded between January 2008 and last Friday, according to investigations by THISDAY.
The Board Chairman of the National Oil Company of Liberia (NICOL) Cleamesuer Urey says there are probabilities that Liberia could have oil as search for one of the world's hottest natural resources continue off its shore.
Indications emerged yesterday that President Umaru Musa Yar'adua may have finally succumbed to the Niger Delta elders' demand that Professor Ibrahim Gambari be dropped as the chairman of the proposed Niger Delta Summit.
Plainly put, the Niger-Delta crisis has moved from a domestic challenge to a global one. The internationalisation of the crisis may have earned the country a few sympathetic glances from international stakeholders in the oil industry. But surely it has
