Oil-producing communities in Niger Delta have called for transparency and accountability in the ongoing divestment of oil and gas assets in the region.

The Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr Samuel Ogbuku, has promised that the commission will now meet on a quarterly basis with stakeholders of the commission to enhance the formulation and sustenance of the Commission's overall strategies for the development of the region. Ogbuku made the promise during an interactive forum…

Stakeholders have bemoaned unequal balance on environmental issues in Niger Delta where communities suffer from pollution and climate problems.

Stakeholders in the oil-rich but impoverished Niger Delta region have picked holes in the global call for an energy transition from fossil fuel to renewable energy, saying that the process and intentions of the West should be interrogated before African countries embrace it hook, line and sinker.

For many years, there exist a veiled agreement that one of the perverse and unintended consequences of the discovery of oil in Nigeria is that governments have almost completely abandoned agriculture in the mad quest for petrol dollars.

A Niger Delta Leader and former freedom fighter in the region, Reuben Wilson, has canvassed for a review of the budget for the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP).

A Niger Delta leader and former freedom fighter in the region, Reuben Wilson, has advocated a reviewed budget for the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP). Wilson said given the current economic realities, and for the new leadership to succeed, there is a need for the agency's budget to have an upward review. He said since 2009…

The European Union (EU) and Search for Common Ground Journalism have trained about 33 journalists from three states in Niger Delta region - Rivers, Delta and Bayelsa on ways to reporting issues of criminality and violence in the oil-rich region to tackle them.

Nigeria Police Force spokesperson, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, has said Delta State governor Sheriff Oborevwori and monarchs are worried over the security situations in the state. There have been recent cases of attacks on security personnel in Delta State. In March, 2024, six police officers were ambushed and killed in Delta State. The Guardian reported that the…

Investigation going on over the killing of 16 military personnel in the coastal community of Okuama, Delta State should be full and thorough, to quickly bring to justice the perpetrators of the dastardly act...

Countries around the world are grappling with internal security issues. Russia, despite all assurances of a well-policed borders and repeated threat to deploy nuclear arms, was caught napping

Essentially, my thoughts are on the killings of the military officers in the Okuama/Okoloba conflict.