Then it would move on to complex ones, where oil had sunk more deeply into the ground. People gather near an oil spill in the Niger Delta in village of Ogboinbiri, Nigeria, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024.

The water from Comrade Noble Nwolu's house borehole smells like crude oil. When he runs his tap, the smell immediately oozes out and an oily streak beams under the sun. "My house is situated right ...

For decades, the oil-rich but painfully underserved communities of the Niger Delta have endured a kind of silent suffering, a ...

Comrade Eniwake Orogun, has raised strong concerns over the rising calls to dismantle the current security architecture ...

NUPRC wins praise for 37 new oil routes to curb oil theft, boost production, attract $16bn investment and drive Nigeria’s ...

Scientists in Belfast and Nigeria have developed a diagnostic tool that deploys microbes to uncover the timeline of crude oil ...

The NDYC urged its members to “ mobilise to disrupt oil production across the Niger Delta region at the expiration of the seven days ultimatum.” Update me D.O. Akintoye ...

The Niger Delta hosts the second largest petroleum reserves in Africa, with the Nigerian economy heavily dependent on the industry. But since the extraction and processing of oil started in the ...

The field, Oil Mining Lease 18, covers an area of 1,035 square kilometers in the eastern Niger Delta and produced a daily average of 14,000 barrels of oil equivalent last year. Eroton has also bought ...

Nigeria's main militant group said its fighters had attacked an oil platform belonging to Royal Dutch Shell in the Niger Delta Monday, despite an amnesty offer from President Umaru Yar'Adua.