A Port Harcourt High Court has sentenced the Managing Director of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), Osagie Okunbor, and two others to three months in prison with hard labour. Those sentenced to prison alongside the SPDC boss in contempt proceedings are, Company Secretary and Head of Legal, Nike Oyinlola, as well as Deputy Country Head…

The managing director of Shell Petroleum Development Company, Mr Osagie Okunbor, and two others have been sentenced to three months in prison with hard labour by a Port Harcourt High Court. Others also sentenced to three months in prison with hard labour in contempt proceedings were Shell's secretary and head of legal, Nike Oyinlola and…

I recently read a piece by Thomas Friedman, in the New York Times with this exact same title. His piece was about Taiwan, and countries like it, and how they avoided the resource curse, simply by not having enough resources to live on.

The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has cautioned Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) against playing politics with the Belema oilfield in Kula, Rivers State shut 13 months ago. It held that the oil major never learnt anything from the Ogoni crisis. The group regretted that instead of resolving the issues that compelled the host communities…

A Milan judge on Thursday sentenced two men to four years in prison in the first ruling of a corruption case involving oil giants Eni and Shell in Nigeria, a judicial source said. The judge also ordered the seizure of millions of dollars and Swiss francs from the pair, who acted as go-betweens in the…

The Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta and oil major, Shell on Monday denied allegations of coercing the leadership of Aghoro 1 community in Bayelsa to sign a disputed report on oil spillage.

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…

Contrary to reports that the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) had left Delta State after divesting its investments in 2010, the firm said it was still active in the state. Shell’s General Manager, External Relations, Igo Weli, who was represented by the company’s Head of Community Interface, Evans Krukrubo, insisted that the company had not…

A British judge, Mrs. Justice Cockerill, has ruled that Bodo community in Nigeria, which had been involved in a protracted legal battle with Shell over the cleanup of two 2008 oil spills, should retain the option of litigation for another year.

A trial for oil giants Eni and Shell over alleged kickbacks paid during the purchase of an offshore oilfield in Nigeria was Monday pushed back to 20 June awaiting a ruling on an appeal made by Shell.

Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company of Nigeria (SNEPCo) and its partners have built and donated a fully furnished and equipped multimillion Naira Integrated Science Laboratories Block to Aggrey Memorial (Model) College Arochukwu, Abia state. The Principal of the college, Ugbuta Chukwuemeka Peter said the laboratories will facilitate improved teaching and learning of sciences not…

Energy major Royal Dutch Shell said Thursday that profits leapt by about two thirds in the first quarter of 2018, energised by resurgent crude oil and gas prices.