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 ...

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

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

But the entire Niger Delta is a textbook example of the resource curse. Somehow possessing one of the richest deposits of oil in the world has made this region poorer and more unstable.

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

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 ...

“In Krakarma, Bille general area, Degema LGA four active illegal refining sites, three fibre as well as two wooden boats were destroyed with over 14,000 litres of stolen automotive gas oil and ...

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 ...