PETROLEUM and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), the umbrella body for the nation�s influential senior oil workers, threatened yesterday to pull out all its members from the Niger Delta region, following Sunday�s gun battle between the Joint … read more
The Association of Motorcycle Operators in Rivers State has opposed the sale of crash helmets by the Rivers United Motor Cyclists Association. The Chairman of AMORS, Mr Binoye Sunday, told our correspondent in a telephone interview in Port Harcourt on … read more
One of the newspapers is reporting the following. We have an e-mail into the US Consulate to confirm or deny United States Government has directed its nationals to immediately move out of the Niger Delta because of the tension in … read more
Our sources are telling us that a possible strike by militants is imminent. Our contacts tell us that this will be in retaliation for the killing of 10 of their men by the military on Sunday. We advise extreme caution … read more
The following has been compiled from news sources and other security sources in Lagos. On 20th August, Militant groups met in a village in Bayelsa State. The purpose of this meeting was to discuss the way forward in their current … read more
Nigeria’s white-collar oil workers may stop work unless the government is able to produce a member of the union missing since the military attacked militants believed to have kidnapped him, a union leader said Wednesday. Peter Esele, president of the … read more
Some newspapers are reporting the above. We have confirmation that this is false. This story was a misrepresentation of the US Consolate’s most recent warden messages and travel warning. Although the U.S. Consulate�s warnings strongly caution against travel to the … read more
PosterS of detained leader of Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujihad Dokubo Asari seeking to succeed Governor Peter Odili of Rivers State in next year’s elections are adorning strategic places in Port Harcourt, the state capital.Though Dokubo-Asari does … read more
Tension may rise again in the Niger Delta, as a fierce gun battle between militants and soldiers along a border community near Ekeremor in Bayelsa State on Sunday night left 10 Ijaw youths and a soldier dead. An unspecified number … read more
Soldiers stopped cars at checkpoints and arrested 60 people in the third day of a crackdown on militants in Nigeria’s volatile oil region. The army said Sunday that 160 people have been arrested so far in the Niger River delta … read more