European Union election observers will stay away from Nigeria’s volatile delta region during next month’s landmark vote, the EU’s team leader said on Wednesday. A spate of kidnappings, mostly for ransom, and attacks on oil facilities in the Niger Delta … read more
Vandals on Friday damaged a fuel pipeline at Alakija, Festac Town in Lagos, even as a team of fire fighters battled to extinguish a fire which gutted the Folawiyo Depot in Apapa, Lagos. The vandals, who struck at about 2am … read more
The amount of money which has flowed from the federation account to the Niger Delta States in form of allocation from 1999 till date has been put at N3.07 trillion out of which the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) got … read more
A strategic bridge at Eleme in Rivers State has collapsed, cutting off road users from Akwa Ibom and Cross River states from accessing Port Harcourt through that route. The bridge, situated at a point just before the Onne Junction, which … read more
The $3bn gas gathering projects, EGTL and EGP3, initiated by Chevron Nigeria Limited in Delta State, have been suspended due to the strike action by the workers handling the projects. The projects, conceived by CNL as part of efforts to … read more
The operations of Nigeria Agip Oil Company have been disrupted in Delta State by protesting women of Idheze community, Isoko South Local Government Area. They seized the company�s flow station and other oil exploration facilities in the area. Our correspondent … read more
NO fewer than 10 people lost their lives while property worth millions of naira was destroyed as hostilities returned to Ajah town in Lagos State. Fifteen of the hoodlums who perpetrated the destruction have, however, been arrested by men of … read more
Reuters) – Gunmen in speed boats kidnapped a Dutch security manager of a German construction company in Nigeria’s oil city of Port Harcourt on Friday, security sources said. The attackers invaded the construction yard of Bilfinger Berger on the waterfront … read more
Reuters) – Gunmen in speed boats kidnapped a Dutch security manager of a German construction company in Nigeria’s oil city of Port Harcourt on Friday, security sources said. A wave of recent attacks led to a 20 percent cut in … read more
Gunmen kidnapped three foreign workers in two separate incidents in Nigeria’s oil-producing delta on Friday, authorities said. Expatriate abductions have become an almost weekly occurrence this year in the world’s eighth largest oil exporter, and thousands have fled the Niger … read more