Militants released eight hostages including staff of the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) and military personnel on Wednesday at the Oporoma Community in Bayelsa State.They were released on Tuesday after the Bayelsa State Government intervened. Armed Ijaw youth barricaded an … read more
Users of the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos were thrown into a state of confusion on Wednesday when a rumour spread that the bridge linking the mainland to the Island had collapsed. Motorists going on either side of the bridge … read more
The construction of the $13 billion pan-African Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline is increasingly coming to threat with the festering Niger Delta crisis and the al Qaeda insurgent activities along the project route. The pipeline, which is a joint venture initiative by … read more
Armed youths from Oporoma community in Bayelsa State held about 60 workers of Shell Petroleum Development Company and some, military personnel hostage in the early hours of Tuesday during an invasion of the oil firms Field Logistics Base (FLB) attached … read more
Senior security officials in Nigeria are laying down strategies to limit the impact of militant attacks in theoil-producing delta, driven by the absence of a clearly defined political solution. Military officials who gathered recently near PortHarcourt, one of Nigeria’soil hubs, … read more
Oil companies in Nigeria are being hit with rising costs due to kidnappings of their staff that have become so commonplace in the volatile Niger Delta one Nigerian company is selling T-shirts calling it the country’s “fastest growing business!” But … read more
A court in Abuja on Tuesday charged five foreigners and three Nigerians with espionage, court documents showed. They all pleaded not guilty to a 12-count espionage charge. Romanian Bogdam Dumitrescu, 50, Israeli Eliav Hommossany, 46, Irishman James Nolan, 40, and … read more
Most of the dozens of troops and oil workers taken hostage in a raid on a navy base and neighboring oil facility in southern Nigeria have been released, police said Wednesday. The eight remaining hostages _ employees of a subsidiary … read more
No fewer than six corpses, suspected to be those of youths with militant leanings, have been seen floating around Bille, one of the fishing communities around the Cawthorne Channel, where militants killed five soldiers last week. The youths were believed … read more
Bille, one of the coastal communities in Rivers State, said to be harbouring militants, has appealed to the Rivers State Government and oil companies operating in the area to come to its aid by providing it with more land and … read more