TWO hundred and thirty-eight victims of Tuesday�s fuel pipeline fire at Awori, Lagos were given a mass burial overnight, according to the Nigerian Red Cross. At least seven of those rushed to different hospitals have died while health officials have … read more
Nigeria’s government has promised measures to avoid future disasters, after a pipeline explosion killed at least 260 people in Lagos. Pipeline fires occur frequently in Nigeria as people try to scoop up fuel leaking from pipes that have broken or … read more
FOUR Nigerian workers with the Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC) held hostage by militants have miraculously escaped from their captors. They were taken hostage at Tebidaba flow station in Bayelsa State. The four workers who sustained gunshot injuries arrived in … read more
A top management staff of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) said to be scooping fuel from the damaged pipeline in Abule Egba, Lagos State, was among the hundreds of people that died in Tuesday�s pipeline explosion, the Nigerian … read more
A pipeline caught fire Thursday in a poor Lagos neighborhood and Red Cross workers were investigating the second explosion in three days, but there was no immediate word on casualties, officials said. Adeola Adefolabi, a Lagos government official, said the … read more
Fuel was leaking from a pipeline in a poor Lagos neighborhood Thursday, but the Red Cross said its earlier report of an explosion was mistaken. A Nigerian Red Cross official, Ige Oladimeji, said once officials got to the site in … read more
It was a bloody Christmas celebrations in Port Harcourt as no fewer that six civilians and two policemen were killed while an entrepreneur was abducted in two separate incidents in the State. Five of the deaths took place at Elelenwo … read more
SCARCITY of petroleum products across the country took a turn for the worst yesterday, with most motorists within the Lagos area forced off the road, while others who had to move around were compelled to purchase petrol from the black … read more
Lagos pipeline explosion Oct 18, 1998: At least 1,082 people died at Jesse, in the southeastern state of Delta, when a pipeline exploded as people tried to steal fuel. June 25, 1999: 15 people were burnt alive in a pipeline … read more
Oil workers in the country have blamed the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation for complicity in recent pipeline fire incidents across the country due to the absence of an effective pipeline monitoring system. The President, Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff … read more