(Reuters) – Nigerian militants fired warning shots at military gunboats in the creeks of the Niger Delta late on Tuesday as the army tried to flush out those behind an attack on Shell’s main offshore oilfield. President Umaru Yar’Adua ordered … read more
A strike by Nigerian white-collar oil workers against Chevron’s local unit entered a third day, a union official said. Production remained unaffected. The union and management will hold talks with Petroleum Minister H. Odein Ajumogobia tomorrow and with Abubakar Yar’Adua, … read more
WANTED Rivers warlord, Ateke Tom has reportedly foiled an attempt by some aggrieved militants to blow up another facility of the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), the EA oil field in Rivers State, three days after the Movement for Emancipation … read more
Just when Nigerians were giving up hope of ever finding the missing Beechcraft 1900D aircraft owned by Wings Aviation Limited, another twist have been added to the saga. Niger-Delta Standard gathered from a reliable source that the pilot who flew … read more
Chairman of the Steering Committee on the Niger Delta Summit, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, has called on militants in the area to declare a 90-day truce to give the committee as well as next month�s summit the benefit of the doubt … read more
THE Senate on Tuesday alleged threats to the lives of its members and intimidation and blackmail over its insistence on probing the N19.5 billion intervention fund released by the Federal Government in 2006 for the development of infrastructure in the … read more
Maltese oil worker George Scerri has been released by Nigerian kidnappers who seized him just over a month ago, the Maltese government has said. He was released about 3 a.m. today, a Maltese delegation which had stayed on in Nigeria … read more
Eighty five billion US dollars is re-quired for the complete rectification of the nation�s moribund power sector between now and 2020 while another N301.3 billion will be required to develop gas infrastructure to power the various power plants that are … read more
Source: This Day Militants War Worsens, 30 Killed War of supremacy among militant groups in the creeks of the Niger Delta worsened yesterday, as no fewer than 30 persons have been killed. Prince Igodo, whose camp was invaded by rampaging … read more
SINCE he was nominated by President Umar Yar’ Adua as the chairman of the impending Niger Delta summit, major stakeholders in Nigeria’s oil-rich zone have rejected him. The most prominent militant outfit, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger … read more