The Isoko clusters of Oil Producing Communities of the four flow stations that constitute a major part of the Oil Mining Lease (OML) 30 has insisted that their recent pullout from the newly constituted Community Development Board (CDB) set up to operate…
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-From Our Correspondent: The Isoko clusters of Oil Producing Communities of the four flow stations that constitute a major part of the Oil Mining Lease (OML) 30 on Friday December 14th 2018, pulled out of the newly constituted Community Development Board (CDB)…
PRESIDENT Mohammadu Buhari, Delta State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa and the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III on Wednesday (12/12/18), affirmed that peace is very vital for a progressive nation to be achieved.They spoke at the 3rd coronation anniversary celebration…
-By Michael EKOKORUWE: The Isoko National Youth Council led by its President Comrade Utomudo Fidelis, has staged a peaceful protest to agitate for the marginalization of Isoko youth on employment, surveillance of oil facilities and denial of contractor and managerial slots by…
The general thrust seems to be that a current OPL 245 contract tender has been rigged for corrupt purposes benefitting Shell, ENI and certain Nigerian parties. Shell has past expertise in such matters By John Donovan More information has arrived as a…
The Presidential Amnesty Office has said the Federal Government earned a total of N7.3 trillion in oil revenue generation in 2017. The increased earnings resulted from the relative peace in the oil-bearing communities of the Niger Delta region, said the Head of…
The commissioner directorate of projects in the Delta state Oil Producing Development Commission (DSOPADEC) Mr. Phillip Gbasin has described the Governor Ifeanyi Okowa lead administration has a landmark of development in all ramifications of Delta State. The commissioner who made this known…
Following the recent threat by the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) to attack critical oil assets in the Niger Delta Region, Deputy Governor of Delta State and Chair, Delta State Advocacy Committee Against Vandalism of Oil and Gas Facilities, Barr. Kingsley Burutu Otuaro,…
Governor of Delta State, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa and the Orodje of Okpe Kingdom have been commended for keying into the establishment of Sapele Industrial City (SICITY) project and ensuring the successful signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) by the Host Communities….
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –: The Niger Delta Indigenous Mment For Radical Change (NDIMRC), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the Attorney-General of the Federation, (AGF), Abubakar Malami now over a purported memo emanating from him on the location of…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –: Prominent Niger Delta Activist and leader in Gbaramatu kingdom, Warri South West local government area of Delta state, High Chief Micheal Johnny has condemned the purported memo emanating from the Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, .Abubakar Malami…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –: The people of Ajakurama, Gelegele and Egbema kingdom in Warri North Local government Area of Delta State are celebrating following the total take over of the communities by the Operation crocodile smile phase 11 officers who stormed…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –: THE Niger Delta Indigenous Movement for Radical Change (NDIMRC), has warned against frustrating the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu just as it claimed that the life of the Minister was under threat. The…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Dr Ebi Franklin Waboke: The Niger Delta referred to and meant by the ijaw struggle is strictly and unchangeably the area occupied by the ijaws, the aboriginal tribe of the delta basin of River Niger partitioned into…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Albert OGRAKA: Delta Nigeria’s Delta state former governor, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, has advised the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to ensure that governors in the once oil and gas rich Niger Delta region were part of the…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to increase the tempo on crude oil exploration activities in the northern part of the country. This is in a bid to step up measures to…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Governor of oil rich Delta state, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has condemned the recent killing of Nigerian soldiers, and other civilians, who were on their legitimate assignments, in a houseboat attack, in Omadino, Warri South, Delta State,…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – DELTA State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa has called for strategic alliance between host communities in oil producing areas, the international Oil companies (IOCs) and security agencies in securing oil and gas investments in the state. The…
Governments at all levels, multinational oil companies, security agencies and host communities have been urged to play more active roles in stopping the menace of crude oil theft. Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan and stakeholders in the oil and gas industry…
A two-day stakeholders’ forum on securing investments in the oil and gas industry begins in Effurun, Delta State, on Tuesday, April 15, the state Commissioner for Information, Chike Ogeah, has said. In a press statement issued in Warri, Ogeah said the forum…
