Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr Samuel Ogbuku, has reaffirmed the commission’s commitment to the mass street and road lighting across the Niger Delta. The initiative, known as ‘Light Up the Niger Delta,’ is being implemented in the nine Niger Delta states, comprising Abia, Akwa...
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A coalition of Niger Delta groups has described Shell UK’s planned sale of its Nigerian subsidiary without consulting host communities as unhealthy and unacceptable. The women’s position was presented by Mrs Emem Okon of Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Centre during a protest in Yenagoa on Friday. Okon led...
Tantita Security Services Ltd., has said it is targeting a $320 million carbon credit scheme for the Niger-Delta region, as part of efforts to drive community development and sustainable environment. Executive Director Operations and Technical, Tantita Security Service, Capt. Waredi Enisuoh, said this at a lecture organised by Highstone...
The Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has congratulated Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on her reappointment as the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The National Chairman of PANDEF, Dr. Godknows Igali, OON, in a recent statement, described Okonjo-Iweala as the “best jewel of the Niger Delta” and hailed her historic...
The Nigerian Navy confiscated more than 8.1 million barrels of stolen crude oil and 86,500 MT of illegally refined AGO in four years. The Chief of Training and Operations (Navy), Rear Adm. Olusegun Ferreira, made this known while briefing newsmen on the activities of the navy on Monday in...
Dr Government Ekpemupolo, also known as Tompolo, Chairman of Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited (TSSNL), has alleged sabotage in the fight against crude oil theft in the country. Ekpemupolo stated this when he played host to the national leadership of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), on Tuesday in Oporoza,...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to fostering dialogue, reconciliation, and healing among all ethnic nationalities that make up our great nation. In a special message commemorating the 2024 Ogoni Martyrs Remembrance Day, President Tinubu said he was in solidarity with...
A coalition of groups known as: “We Are Stronger Together Movement”, has said that the call by aggrieved groups for the sack of the current leadership of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) was uncalled for. The Movement said on Monday in Yenagoa that rather than the sack of...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) says the troops of Operation Delta Safe destroyed 98 illegal refining sites across the Niger Delta region in the last one week. The Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Edward Buba, made this known while giving updates on the operations of the armed forces in...
When The Minister of Niger Delta Development (MNDD), Abubakar Momoh, in November 2023, inaugurated the new Governing Board of the Niger Development Commission (NDDC) with a charge that they should have on their fingertips the Eight-point Presidential Priorities that would guide the board in its development strides of the...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) says the troops of Operation Delta Safe destroyed 65 illegal refining sites across the Niger Delta region in the last one week. The Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Edward Buba, made this known while briefing newsmen on the operations of the armed forces, on...
Troops of the 6 Division, Nigerian Army, have neutralised two suspected oil thieves, and apprehended 18 others during different anti-illegal bunkering operations in the Niger Delta. The division’s Spokesman, Lt.-Col. Danjuma Danjuma, said in a statement in Port Harcourt on Monday, that the operations were held in Akwa Ibom,...
The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) says it has successfully secured over N60 billion and 100 million dollars for the oil and gas host community development trust fund. Commission Chief Executive of NUPRC, Gbenga Komolafe, said this during the inauguration of the Body of Neutrals at the Upstream...
GCEO, NNPC Ltd, Mr Mele Kyari, when he received in audience the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa, and other senior military officers, at the NNPC Towers, in Abuja, on Tuesday. The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.), has urged the military to maintain the fight...
Troops of the 5 Battalion, Nigerian Army, have intensified operations against illegal refining in Rivers State, arresting eight suspects and seizing over 2,000 litres of condensates. The arrests were made along the Orashi River in the Ogba Egbema Ndoni Local Government Area (LGA), where the suspects were found...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has said series of airstrikes by the Air Component of Operation Delta Safe have destroyed 13 illegal refining sites, The NAF spokesman, AVM Edward Gabkwet, announced this in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja, Gabkwet said that 10...
The 6 Division, Nigerian Army, has recovered about 238,500 litres of stolen crude oil from suspected oil thieves in Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers States. The division’s Spokesman, Lt.-Col. Danjuma Danjuma, told journalists in Port Harcourt on Thursday that the crude oil was seized from trucks and illegal refining...
By BARBARA KALU, Port Harcourt – Project Niger Delta (PND), a civil society organization, has called on the federal government to cancel ongoing surveillance contracts aimed at stopping the theft of crude oil in the Niger Delta. In a petition signed by its Executive Director/Coordinator, comrade Princewill...
The Nigerian Navy (NN) Team of the Forward Operating Base Bonny, under Operation Delta Sanity, has destroyed a camp of suspected crude oil thieves and apprehended two suspects in Rivers. The Director of Naval Information, Commodore Aiwuyor Adams-Aliu, made this known in a statement on Monday in Abuja....