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MOSOP Threatens to Drag Shell Before EFCC

The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) yesterday threatened to drag Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for economic sabotage over their alleged setting of oil wells in Ogoniland on fire. … read more

JTF plots to free hostages

THE Joint Task Force on the Niger Delta (JTF) says it has intensified its efforts to free 18 foreign workers taken hostage over the past months by militants in the Niger Delta. �We have stepped up efforts to locate the … read more

Okada riders stay off Calabar roads

Workers were forced to trek to work in Calabar on Thursday as commercial motorcycle operators resolved to abandon the roads to avoid arrest by the police following Wednesday�s burning of the Atakpa Police Station. Findings by our correspondent showed that … read more

Shell indicts Ogoni communities

Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria on Thursday said that it had been denied access by Ogoni communities to two oil wells, which were on fire in the area. The two oil wells-Bomu 41 and 50 located in Gokana Local … read more

S Koreans released in Niger Delta

Nine South Korean oil workers who were taken hostage by gunmen in Nigeria have been freed unharmed, officials say. The attack took place on Wednesday at a Daewoo oil facility in the southern oil state of Bayelsa. A Nigerian worker … read more

Obasanjo Relinquishes Petroleum Portfolio

In a cabinet reshuffle that saw him swearing-in six new ministers and a permanent secretary, President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday in Abuja relinquished the Ministry of Petroleum Resources which he had held for the last seven and a half years as … read more