Tag: Niger Delta

A ruptured pipeline in Nigeria’s Delta state spilled oil, but has been contained, the head of state oil company NNPC said. NNPC initially said...

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari sacked the head of an amnesty programme for former militants in the country's oil and gas-producing heartland, amid...

Nearly a decade after two catastrophic oil spills in the Niger Delta, a comprehensive clean-up has been launched in the southern Nigerian...

Nigeria's oil minister will visit the Niger Delta this week in a bid to stave off a threat of more insurgent attacks...

Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari said the country "cannot afford to go back to dark days of insecurity" in the oil-producing Niger Delta...

A military exercise in Nigeria's restive southern Niger Delta oil production hub is unnecessary and government should focus on economic development, an...

Hundreds of Nigerian protesters stormed a crude oil flow station owned by Shell in the restive Niger Delta on Friday, demanding jobs...

Prominent community leaders in Nigeria's restive Niger Delta oil hub threatened to pull out of peace talks with government unless their demands...

Nigeria's acting president will meet again with community leaders from the Niger Delta oil heartlands next week, his spokesman said on Tuesday,...

The Nigerian government's efforts to secure peace in the Niger Delta oil heartlands are empty promises, community leaders say, threatening a return...

At least six Nigerian soldiers were killed in a new military campaign against militants in the country's restive Niger Delta oil hub,...

Nigeria's military said on Thursday that it had destroyed 13 illegal refineries in the restive Niger Delta oil hub, in an operation...

Two Turkish men were kidnapped from a hotel room in south-east Nigeria, police said on Tuesday. The pair, who worked for a...

Nigeria's lower house of parliament launched a probe into a lack of funding for an amnesty programme for militants in the country's...

Nigeria's amnesty programme which provides vocational training and stipends to former militants who attacked oil facilities in its Niger Delta energy hub...

Eight sailors, seven from Russia and one from Ukraine, have been kidnapped by pirates off Nigeria. They were taken from their cargo vessel...

A Nigerian militant group, which claimed a wave of attacks on oil pipelines in the Niger Delta, said on it has asked...

Nigeria resumed payments of cash stipends to former militants agreed under a 2009 amnesty in the country's Niger Delta oil hub, an...

Royal Dutch Shell has shut down an Escravos crude oil flow station in Nigeria's Niger Delta after villagers demanding aid staged a...

A commander of a Nigerian militant group has attacked the Trans Forcados oil pipeline in the Niger Delta without authorisation, a local...

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will meet leaders of the restive Niger Delta in Abuja next week in an attempt to end an...

An angry crowd blocks access to a Chevron facility in Nigeria's oil-producing south to demand jobs and housing, a common refrain from...

Nigeria is talking to oil companies and seeking to make contact with leaders of militant groups in an effort to end attacks...

A Nigerian militant group on Thursday claimed an attack on a crude pipeline operated by state oil firm NNPC in the restive...

Nigerian militant group the Niger Delta Avengers said at the weekend it had carried out its first oil pipeline attack in...

The father of a former Nigerian militant leader has died after sustaining injuries during a government military campaign aimed at halting attacks...

Traditional leaders in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta have demanded that authorities release youths arrested by the army before they will mediate in...

A Nigerian former militant group said on Sunday it has been holding talks with government to end a wave of attacks on...

A gas pipeline operated by Nigeria's state energy company in south-western Ogun state has been attacked by men disguised as maintenance staff,...

Militants launched a fresh round of attacks on oil pipelines in Nigeria's southern Niger Delta energy hub belonging to Italy's Eni and...

The Niger Delta Avengers, a militant group that has been carrying out attacks on Nigerian oil facilities in the past few months,...

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday urged community leaders from the Niger Delta to pacify people in the restive southern region, which...

The Niger Delta Avengers, a Nigerian militant group which has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on oil facilities in the...

The Niger Delta Avengers, a group that has claimed responsibility for a recent spate of attacks on oil and gas facilities in...

The Nigerian army has swept into villages in the southern swamplands in an operation to crush the Niger Delta Avengers group, but...

An explosion rocked a pipeline operated by a subsidiary of Nigeria's state oil company in the West African country's restive Delta region...

A Nigerian militant group, which has claimed a string of attacks on oil pipelines in the Niger Delta, said on Thursday the...

Nigeria will scale down a military campaign in the oil-producing Niger Delta and talk to the Niger Delta Avengers militant group which...

Even as Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari claims to have ‘technically defeated Boko Haram,' he's facing another armed rebellion, from a completely different...

Nigeria will start a dialogue with the Niger Delta Avengers militant group which has been claiming a string of attacks, its oil...

Nigeria's president on Sunday said he would hold talks with leaders in the oil-producing Delta region to address their grievances in a...

Slumped in a chair at Port Harcourt airport in Nigeria's Delta region, community leader Udengs Eradiri warns that attacks on oil facilities...

Chevron's onshore activities in Nigeria's Niger Delta have been shut down by a militant attack at its Escravos terminal, a company source...

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said he ordered a heightened military presence in the restive Niger Delta region to deal with...

Former militants have called for a halt to a resurgence of attacks on oil and gas facilities in Nigeria's Niger Delta, saying...

Unknown attackers have blown up a gas pipeline belonging to Italy's ENI in Nigeria's Niger Delta, residents and the company said on...

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari needs to address grievances in the Delta region where militants have been blowing up oil pipelines in a...

They call themselves the Niger Delta Avengers. Little is known about the new radical group that has claimed a series of pipeline...

Gunmen killed two policemen in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta as they slept in a security post on Monday evening and three soldiers...

Gunmen killed four Nigerian policemen in the oil-producing southern Niger Delta on Monday, police said. The officers were ambushed in the Okobie community...