Another oil spill has occurred in Nigeria, the latest in a string of harmful incidents in the nation's Niger River delta region. According to Reuters, Shell reported an oil spill in Ogale ...

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South-West Local Government Area of Delta. “On March 20, two wooden boats actively siphoning crude oil from a wellhead, two drums of stolen crude oil, and one cooking oven were discovered and seized ...

An environmental rights activist, Fyneface Dumnamene Fyneface, has warned against linking the recent explosion in the Trans-Niger Delta Pipeline at Bodo, Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers ...

has instead reignited militancy in the Niger Delta, where armed groups have long exploited political unrest to justify attacks on oil infrastructure. Critics of the suspension argue that it ...

Missing from these discussions has been any form of commitment on the part of Shell or the Nigerian Government to address the human rights implications that come from 60 years of oil extraction in the ...

Troops of the Nigerian Army have arrested 39 suspected oil thieves and dismantled 18 ... as well as other associated crimes conducted in the Niger Delta Region. The Army said the operation which ...

Home to 31 million people, the Niger Delta is one of the 10 most important ... K Dere village is a tiny dot on the map of Africa’s largest river delta. There was an oil spill in K Dere in 1970, when ...

The Nigerian Army, 6 Division said its operatives have arrested 43 suspected oil thieves and recovered 254,000 litres of stolen products in the Niger Delta region ... of the Imo River is ...

Troops of the Nigerian Army have arrested 39 suspected oil thieves and dismantled 18 ... as well as other associated crimes conducted in the Niger Delta Region. The Army said the operation which ...