Author Archives: Chief Oyibo

Militants Free Remaining Nun River Hostages

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

60 oil workers held hostage

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

Military focuses on defending oil hubs

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

Worker Safety: Rising Concern in Nigeria

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

5 Expats Charged With Spying

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 Hostages in Oil Raid Freed

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