Shell Petroleum Development Company has said that it has no plans whatsoever in relocating its corporate headquarters from Port Harcourt to Lagos or anywhere else, stating that, if for anything, the company would bring more staff to the Rivers State … read more
Emergency feeding centres for malnourished children in Niger, the poorest country in the world, are drawing a growing numbers of mothers with malnourished children from oil-rich Nigeria who cross the border in search of medical help not available at home. … read more
The Federal Government has scheduled a meeting with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) on Friday over the recent hike in the pump price of petroleum products. The meeting was earlier scheduled for tomorrow but … read more
Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has denied an alleged plan by it to stop oil exploration in the Niger delta. SPDC’s Acting Manager (Media), Mr Precious Okolobo, told heads of media organisations yesterday in Port Harcourt that the company would … read more
Militants in the Niger Delta, under the Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC), have claimed to have destroyed a major pipeline in Nembe area of Bayelsa State. The group claimed that its action was in response to the Supreme Court�s refusal to … read more
Going by the latest figures compiled by the US government, Nigeria is now the third largest exporter of crude oil to America. According to Empowered Newswire reports, the US Energy Information Administration in March said Nigeria had overtaken Saudi Arabia … read more
Officials in Nigeria say militants in the south of the country have released 12 foreign hostages, whom they have been holding for several weeks. 3 American, 4 Brits, 1 South African, 1 Filipino, 3 Indian, as well as a Nigerian … read more
SEVERAL eminent Nigerians and civil society groups yesterday in Lagos protested the continued detention of the leaders of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, and Chief Ralph Uwazuruike of the Movement for the Actualisation of the … read more
Former Minister of petroleum, Professor Tam David-West, has advised President Umaru Yar�Adua to sever whatever umblical cord he may share with former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, if his administration is to succeed. David-West said the president must make a clean … read more
OIL and gas industry exploration and production operators have served notice that an increase in militant attacks in the Niger Delta area may be imminent especially following advice from the British Home Office urging its nationals to leave Rivers, Bayelsa … read more