Royal Dutch Shell may resume work in the next few weeks in parts of the Nigeria’s Delta region affected by rebel attacks, Shell’s head of exploration and production said Tuesday. Shell, state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. and other partners in … read more
Rivers State government has offered five million naira cash for useful information that would help track down last week’s killers of Ricky Wiginton, an American oil worker, in Port Harcourt. It would be recalled that Governor Peter Odili was out … read more
Royal Dutch Shell, the Anglo-Dutch energy group, has issued a tender for about 70 boats in an effort to strengthen security in Nigeria’s delta region. According to a Shell tender document obtained by the Financial Times and dated January this … read more
CORPSES of four policemen were yesterday found floating on a river in Port Harcourt. There were fears they might have been shot by militants in the early hours of the day. The Police were, however, quick to remove the corpses … read more
Nigerians expecting an improved electricity supply from the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) may as well forget it for now as the Minister for Power and Steel, Senator Liyel Imoke, has said that it would take another period of … read more
President Olusegun Oba-sanjo at the weekend ordered heads of the nation�s security agencies to co-operate in providing increased security around oil pipelines across Nigeria. Obasanjo who is currently on a state visit to Indonesia, also ordered an investigation into the … read more
(Reuters) – Militants threatened on Friday to destroy a $13 billion natural gas export plant in Nigeria. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said in an email to Reuters they were conscious of the potential for … read more
HUNDREDS of displaced residents of 2 Brigade, Port Harcourt Army Barracks are seeking help from government and public spirited Nigerians. At their temporary refuge behind Gas Plant on Rumuokoro road some of them told Vanguard that life had become difficult … read more
Three foreign oil workers kidnapped in the southern Nigerian city of Port Harcourt have been freed. The trio, who work for an Italian oil firm, were seized on Thursday in a car, and taken away on a boat, police said. … read more
Nigerian TV reports up to 200 people are feared dead in an oil pipeline blast. The station reports the firy explosion ht after villagers flocked to a rupture to scoop up gushing fuel. THe explosion hit just outside Lagos at … read more