Production looses arising from the protracted Niger Delta crisis and alleged inability of the Nigerian Government to properly fund its own share of the Joint venture has put the Shell Petroleum Development Com-pany of Nigeria (SPDC) in a financial crisis. … read more
Detained leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) Henry Okah has taken the Federal Government to court, seeking to stop gas flaring in the country. In the suit in which the Attorney-General of the Federation … read more
Major oil companies operating in Nigeria that routinely disengage their indigenous staff under the pretext of redundancy and employ casual workers will henceforth face the wrath of the Federal Government. The Minister of State for Energy, in-charge of Petroleum, Mr. … read more
WITH the imposition of a penalty of $3.50 per thousand standard cubic feet (SCF) of flared gas on defaulting companies, the Federal Government has taken a major step to encourage domestic utilisation of gas resources. The measure came barely a … read more
Hundreds of toddlers and children on Sunday took to the streets in Port Harcourt to protest incessant kidnapping of underaged persons in Rivers State. The children, who were accompanied by some adults, marched through some major streets in the city … read more
President Umaru Musa Yar�Adua yesterday visited Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State in what is his first visit to the Niger Delta region since he was sworn in as president of the federal republic. He used the occasion to warn … read more
AMIDST growing public anxiety, the Nigerian Navy on Friday in Abuja gave an insight into the spate of kidnappings and hostage takings in the Niger Delta. The Navy Headquarters said some militants resorted to such criminal activities because they could … read more
Following recent in-cessant attacks on its production facilities and widespread theft of its crude oil and condensate, especially in the volatile Niger Delta region, the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has described the situation as precarious and �an impending disaster … read more
Again, a staff of an oil company, Mr. Goodday Joseph and a toddler, Tonye George were kidnapped in Port Harcourt and Okrika, at the weekend. Meanwhile the whereabouts of Mrs. Fedelia Chioma, mother of the Leader of the Rivers State … read more
The United States government has refrained from being drawn into the issue of whether former President Jimmy Carter should intervene in the Niger Delta, preferring to allow the Nigerian government deal with its domestic affairs. The Movement for the Emancipation … read more