A Briton, Mr. Martin Maddieson, and an American, Mr. Jim Brazel, held hostage by Ijaw militants at the coastal Ezetu community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, since last week Thursday, were released on Tuesday morning. The … read more
Officials of Italy�s Agip oil company went into talks Wednesday with representatives of armed protesters who took dozens of oil workers hostage and closed a flowstation in Nigeria and Forty-eight workers, all Nigerian personnel who were on the flowstation in … read more
Operatives of the State Security Services (SSS) yesterday, re-arrested four alleged kidnappers of oil workers on the premises of the Abuja division of the Federal High Court shortly after Justice Anwuri Chikere sitting in the division admitted them to bail. … read more
Foreign oil companies operating in Nigerian are reportedly interested in stepping up gas exploration in the Niger Delta in order to meet increasing worldwide demand. According to Austin Avuru, president of Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists, Shell, the leading foreign … read more
After months of speculations, former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, yesterday picked the presidential nomination form of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), thus ending weeks of sustained anxiety over the platform he would use to pursue his 2007 presidential … read more
Nine kidnapped oil workers have escaped in Nigeria’s southern Niger Delta, a senior manager from Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC) said on Thursday. The workers are currently receiving medical treatment at the company’s hospital in Port Harcourt, said the manager … read more
NINETEEN persons have been confirmed dead in a fire outbreak at a vandalised Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pipeline between Kaurani and Wapa villages of Mayo Belwa Council, Adamawa State. They were reportedly scooping fuel when the incident occurred last … read more
FRESH facts have emerged on the September 27, 2006 ruling in the case involving President Olusegun Obasanjo’s Special Assistant on Domestic Affairs, Andy Uba, and the charges of cash smuggling into the United States (U.S.) levelled against him. The prosecutor … read more
Akwa Ibom State government has sued oil giant, Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN), and some of its directors over the non-remittance of its personal income tax to the Board of Internal Revenue. The directors of the company standing trial in the … read more
The Shell Group in Nigeria, on Tuesday, said that the 700,000 barrels of crude oil per day being shut in on account of the crises in the Niger Delta would further deter investments in the oil and gas industry. The … read more