Bayelsa State’s oil-producing communities are now at a crossroads despite President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s pledge to sustain its ...

But confidential UN documents revealed by AP indicate that the exercise was marked by extensive corruption.The January 2022 U ...

As it crossed the Niger Delta in 2021, a satellite imaged acres of bare land. The site outside the city of Port Harcourt was on a United Nations Environment Programme cleanup list, supposed to be ...

In Nigeria, the first part of a $1 billion project to clean up Ogoniland in the Niger Delta, where there have been thousands ...

The oil spill has impacted at least 60 kilometers (37 miles) of coastline, Greenpeace Ukraine said Tuesday. The charity has had no presence in Russia since 2023, when it was designated as an “un ...

STICKS AROUND. COMING UP IN WEATHERWATCH 12. NOW LET’S GET TO A LARGE OIL SPILL IN JEFFERSON COUNTY. THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES SAYS MORE THAN 69,000 GALLONS OF OIL LEAKED FROM AN ...

“We are not bothered about any specific oil spills sites, basically all the Niger Delta region not just Bayelsa State because the issues around oil spills is around the Niger Delta , every ...

NDDC also has mandate in tackling ecological and environmental problems that arise from the exploration of oil mineral in the Niger Delta region and advising the Federal Government and the member ...

But Shell also made clear the need for it to exit the onshore assets, whose 68-year history has been marred by ecological damage from oil spills and tensions with communities in the Niger Delta ...

The Council membership included Ex-Niger Delta Agitators, environmental experts and socio-economic advocacy, Civil Society Organisations and media personnel from the Oil and Gas producing ...

But the scene is also a recurring one across the Niger Delta as thieves try to siphon ... government earnings are generated from oil. Thousands of oil spill incidents have occurred since oil ...

Most of the pipelines that criss-cross the Niger Delta are as old as when commercial export of crude oil started in Nigeria and a lot of these spills are coming from these old pipelines and in ...