Except the Federal Government faithfully addresses the lapses in the oil and gas sector and multiplicity of agencies, the environmental degradation in the Niger Delta...

Manufacturers operating under the Petroleum Product Sectoral Group of Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) have decried over-regulation...

Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), a civil society organisation (CSO) has called for repair or removal of non-producing oil installations in the Niger Delta region.

Stakeholders in Rivers State have blamed the black soot occurrence and air pollution in the state on Federal Government’s failure...

Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted four persons along the waterways of Southern Ijaw Local Council Area of Bayelsa State. Two of them were said to be workers of Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC), while the other were government officials on a visit. It was learnt that the oil workers, alongside the two officials,…

The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC), says it has recovered over 95 per cent of spilled oil from the recent spill incidents on sections of the Trans Ramos Pipeline (TRP) in Aghoro and Odimodi communities in Bayelsa and Delta states respeftively.

Indications have emerged that the Petroleum Host and Impacted Communities Development Bill (PHICDB) being debated at the National Assembly may not achieve its desired objectives if adequate attention was not paid to the loopholes in the document. Speaking yesterday in Abuja at a meeting organised by the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD),…

National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, NOSDRA has called on Shell Nigeria Exploration and Petroleum Company Limited, SNEPCO, to urgently pay $3.8 billion as damages to 350 communities in Niger Delta region.   It would be recalled that Federal High Court in Lagos, fined SNEPCO the sum of $3.8 billion as a result of…

For decades, the people of Niger Delta have had to put up with varying shades of maladies befalling them on account of oil exploration activities going on in their domain.

Institutional bottlenecks, funding challenges, disenchantment by affected communities and political interference, among others, may stall the implementation of the Ogoni ...

Shoreline Clean-up Assessment Techniques (SCAT) under the Bodo Mediation Initiative (BMI), has said that the only possible way to mitigate against continued exposure to the negative consequences of the polluted...

The Federal Government has said measures are being taken to tackle the black soot emission in Rivers State.The National Oil Spill Detection Response Agency, NOSDRA and the Federal Government Technical Committee on Black Soot....