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Vanguard
March 27, 2018
Some representatives of the communities who spoke last week during the Community based Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) plan organized by National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency NOSDRA urged Nigerian government to address the glaring injustices in the oil producing states of Niger DeltaÃâà...
Independent Newspapers Limited
March 26, 2018
Abakaliki – Tilda Goes Green, a Non-Governmental Organisation, at the weekend, said that it has mapped out strategies to tackle environmental pollution and climate change occasioned by oil spill in the Niger Delta region. It said that the environmental pollution which has affected the climate change in theÃâà...
Daily Trust
March 24, 2018
The sack of Paul Boroh as head of the Presidential Amnesty Programme is causing disaffection in the Niger Delta. ... However, after his sack, some militant groups early this week also vowed to resume attack on pipelines and other oil installations in the Niger Delta, if the President does not reverse the sack.
Upstream Online
March 22, 2018
Human rights group Amnesty International has criticised oil giants Eni and Shell for allegedly misrepresenting data on crude spills in Nigeria's Niger Delta and attempting to deny compensation to communities blighted by pollution, but the two oil companies have vociferously defended their roles. AmnestyÃâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
March 22, 2018
“Prof Charles Dokubo is equally an Ijaw man like General Paul Boroh, so the issuing of threats to bomb oil installations and cause hostility and unrest in the Niger Delta is uncalled for. “The 21st Century Youths of the Niger Delta & Agitators with Conscience, condemn in strong term the ultimatum issued byÃâà...
Guardian (blog)
March 22, 2018
Niger-Delta ex-militants and youth leaders have pledged to join Nigeria's leading energy conglomerate, Aiteo Group, in its bid to engender more peaceful coexistence, stop pipeline vandalism, illegal oil bunkering and oil refining in its areas of operation. This consensus was reached at a meetingÃâà...
VICE News
March 22, 2018
And one of the most notorious militias is the Niger Delta Avengers. They attack pipelines and infrastructure, significantly affecting both the environment and the economy. VICE correspondent Gianna Toboni heads to the heart of Nigeria's oil production to witness firsthand the fight over the control of oil in theÃâà...
Vanguard
March 22, 2018
He, however, noted with concern the continued refusal of the oil multinationals to relocate their headquarters to the Niger-Delta region and urged PANDEF to see this as a slap in the face of the region. The issue, he said, must be addressed. “We had expected that the oil majors would relocate theirÃâà...
Guardian (blog)
March 19, 2018
The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) and Nigerian Agip Oil Company Limited (NAOC) have faulted Amnesty International's (AI's) oil spill report against them. While SPDC described the report as false and lacking merit, Agip said that some of the statements made byÃâà...
Amnesty International
March 16, 2018
We needed to look through all the spill reports provided by oil companies and compare them with pictures of the pipelines, to understand what was really happening in the Niger Delta. But we had a problem: there were thousands of documents and images, far too many even for Amnesty's dedicated researchers to lookÃâà...
Pulse Nigeria
March 16, 2018
Oil giants Eni and Shell have been accused of serious negligence in responding to oil spills in Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The accusation from Amnesty International on Friday, March 16, 2018, described the oil giants' actions as “serious negligence.” In a report by Reuters, Amnesty InternationalÃâà...
New Telegraph Newspaper
March 16, 2018
Few years ago, youths that engaged in kpofire, the illegal refining of stolen crude oil into fuel, diesel or kerosene in Niger Delta communities where pipelines ... Rivers have been polluted with sticky, black oil, which is formed after intense burning and processing of the crude for petroleum products.
SaharaReporters.com
March 16, 2018
Nigeria's Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, says the modular refineries under construction in the oil-producing Niger Delta region of the country will halt illegal refining and save the environment. Kachikwu who said this while addressing correspondents after the Federal ExecutiveÃâà...
Vanguard
March 16, 2018
Zaria (Kaduna State) – The Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria is making efforts to establish conventional and standard locally-build refineries in Niger Delta to boost local oil production. Prof. Ibrahim Mohammed-Dabo, the Team Leader, ABU Refinery Project, made the disclosure in an interview in Zaria,Ãâà...
CHANNELS TELEVISION
March 16, 2018
Rights group, Amnesty International, has faulted reports of oil spills in the Niger Delta by Shell and Eni, and is asking the Federal Government re-open investigations into 89 oil spills in the region. According to the group, the oil giants under-reported the number of spills in the last seven years and alsoÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 13, 2018
The recent judgment by the UK Appeal Court on the dispute between Shell and two Niger Delta communities underscores the need for people of the ... In May 2015, UK solicitors, Leigh Day, brought oil spill claims in a UK court against the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) on behalf of theÃâà...
Premium Times
March 8, 2018
that has plagued the Niger Delta since the beginning of oil exploration is one that has turned a lot of voices hoarse, which is good when compared to the .... the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB), which was split into four parts just because members of the National Assembly not from the Niger DeltaÃâà...
The Nation Newspaper
March 7, 2018
The Executive Director of Environmental Right Action, (ERA), Dr Godwin Uyi Ojo, has said that the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) will not address issues of the Niger Delta region. Dr Ojo spoke at a one-day Civil Society and Host Communities workshop for the Southsouth, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital.
New Telegraph Newspaper
March 1, 2018
“You said also that from oil revenues from our territory, Nigeria had earned over N96 trillion and you say this country makes over N52 billion daily and yet in the midst of this sacrifice, even as we speak, there is no road to the terminals from which this money is made. No road to Brass, Forcados, OgulaghaÃâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
February 28, 2018
“On account of oil in the Niger Delta region and the connivance of the oil majors and traitors within, the international community continues to turn a blind eye to this miscarriage of justice throughout the different tiers of the courts. “We ask our patriotic comrades to remain calm as this matter is far from over.
Daily Post Nigeria
February 28, 2018
Making reference to the report of the Restructuring Committee, Dickson said in spite of the huge oil revenues the country had earned from the Niger Delta, over the years, areas such as Brass, Forcados, Ogulagha and Bonny, where crude oil terminals are located, remain inaccessible by road. “We haveÃâà...
The Nation Newspaper
February 22, 2018
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has trained 500 pupils in Niger Delta states. A statement by the Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Idowu Adejumo, said the training was an initiative to fill the technical gap in oil and gas. He said the pupils were selected from 200 schools toÃâà...
Guardian (blog)
February 22, 2018
At a time governors of the Niger Delta region, ministers and other stakeholders are raising concern over development in the oil region, the House of ... Speaking at the ongoing Nigeria International Petroleum Summit, the stakeholders said that there was need for urgent action to make communities in theÃâà...
The Nation Newspaper
February 21, 2018
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), has trained 500 students selected from secondary schools in states across the Niger Delta region. A statement from the board's Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Idowu Adejumo, said the approach was a new initiative to fill the skill technicalÃâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
February 21, 2018
A militant group under the aegis of Supreme Egbesu Council, today threatened to commence bombing of oil facilities in Warri South LGA of Delta, if the Delta State Governor, Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa shares Ogbe-Ijoh land with Aladja community. The militants said Governor Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa's allegedÃâà...
Vanguard
February 20, 2018
Many oil companies, including International Oil Companies, IOCs and indigenous companies did not disclose their oil spill data. But a compilation of 2017 data obtained by Vanguard from Shell Petroleum Development Company Limited, SPDC, a leading IOC, and operator of the Nigeria National PetroleumÃâà...
TheCable
February 17, 2018
Seriake Dickson, governor of Bayelsa state, says oil blocks in the country are “ancestral properties” of the Niger Delta. Dickson said this at the foundation laying ceremony of Aziken Petroleum Refinery project at Obunagha Gbarian, Yenagoa, the state capital. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo laid theÃâà...
Premium Times
February 17, 2018
He also called on the multinational oil colonies to heed the directive by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to relocate to the Niger Delta which produces the crude oil. Mr. Dickson threw the challenge during the foundation laying ceremony of Aziken Petroleum Refinery Project at Obunagha Gbarian, Yenagoa.
Daily Trust
February 4, 2018
“With the groundswell of anger in the land, we wish to humbly serve notice that we cannot guarantee the safety of oil installations in the Niger Delta. Accordingly, before terminating the PAP, we advise the Federal Government to kindly relocate all oil facilities from the Niger Delta region to another saferÃâà...
The Punch
December 31, 1999
A group known as Mediators for Growth Foundation has warned youths of Niger Delta against resumption of attacks on pipelines conveying crude and other petroleum products. The foundation also cautioned youths of the region to shun stealing petroleum products, adding that oil theft affects the nation'sÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
December 31, 1999
Tammy Williams also lives in the oil region. She accuses international oil companies of not being considerate of the indigenous population and causing massive pollution in the area. "The oil companies in the Niger Delta have been so very unfair to the Niger Delta with regards to the oil spills and notÃâà...
The Nation Newspaper
December 31, 1999
Stakeholders in the Niger-Delta have advocated improved technology as well as efficient communication between the federal government, oil companies and oil bearing communities to check oil pipeline vandalism in the oil industry. These were the recommendations at the end of a one day sensitizationÃâà...
Guardian (blog)
December 31, 1999
The Executive Director, Environmental Right Action, (ERA), Dr. Godwin Ojo, says the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) would not address the lingering crisis in the oil-rich Niger Delta, noting that halt of oil spills and gas flaring, the root causes of the agitation in the zone, were not captured in the piece ofÃâà...
THISDAY Newspapers
December 31, 1999
The Niger Delta Region produces the oil wealth and account for over 90 per cent of Nigeria's foreign earning. ... Figures from the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) indicate that between 1997 and 2001, Nigeria recorded a total number 2,097 oil spills incidences amounting to 1,947,600 barrels ofÃâà...
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