Dr Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo has pledged to do everything possible to ensure that the daily crude oil production output continued to be on the increase and boost the nation’s revenue. Tompolo, who is also a High Chief in Ijaw land, made the promise on Saturday evening...
Niger Delta
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Nigeria Navy on Wednesday said its troops of Operation Delta Sanity have deactivated 41 illegal refining sites and impounded stolen crude oil and other products worth N8.6 billion in three weeks. The Director of Naval Information, Rear Adm. Adedotun Ayo-Vaughan, made this known in...
By JEROME-MARIO UTOMI, Asaba – A group of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Media Professionals have appealed to His Excellency, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, to end gas flaring in Ubeji Community, a sleepy Satellite community located around the...
The House of Representatives Special Committee on Crude Oil Theft and Losses has appealed to the Nigerian Navy to assist it with relevant information to unravel those behind the perennial stealing of the country’s crude oil. Rep. Alhassan Ado Doguwa, the Chairman of the Committee, said in a...
The Joint Task Force, Operation Delta Safe (OPDS), have uncovered 14 sites illegally refining crude oil in Rivers, the Commander, Rear Adm. John Okeke, has said. Okeke who assumed duty on Thursday, said that the illegal refining site, located on Ataba Island, close to Bonny Island in Rivers,...
Residents of Abigborodo and Obagboro Communities in the Warri North Local Government Area (LGA) of Delta on Friday held a peaceful protest over the ownership of the Kuri Oil Field. They consequently called on both the state and federal governments to intervene before the situation escalates into a...
The Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) has arrested eight suspects in its fight against oil thieves in Bayelsa State. The State Commandant of the corps, Mr Edenabu Eweka, said that the suspects were arrested in two separate operations within the last one week. Eweka also said...
The Nigeria Navy has handed over 11 artisans arrested on suspicion of planning to construct an illegal refinery to the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Port Harcourt on Monday. The Base Operations Officer of Nigeria Navy Ship (NNS) Pathfinder Port Harcourt, Cdr. Sa’id Kabir, handed...
Stakeholders led by the National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) have visited Foropa, a fishing settlement along the Atlantic coastline in Bayelsa to assess the impact mystery spill reported on Jan. 3. The mystery spills refer to crude oil leaks from unknown sources where there are...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – A foremost pressure group, “Niger Delta Media Activists” Group has exonerated the suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Allegation, Dr. Betta Edu of any involvement in the reported allegation of diverted N585,198,500 funds of the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA). The...
The recent happenings (or developments) within the Niger Development Commission (NDDC) has further supported the age long leadership postulation that no organization was born with self-confidence. Rather, corporate ‘self-confidence’ is predicated on, and a function of successes and experience derived by the organization’s leadership from its operational environment....
By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – The Defence Headquarters (DHQ), has announced that its troops neutralized a total of 86 terrorists, arrested 101 of others and denied oil theft of the estimated sum of N736,115,470.00 in the last one week. Director, Defence Media Operations (DMO), Major-General Edward Buba, who...
Nigerian Navy has lunched “OPERATIONS DELTA SANITY” to further combat crude oil theft and other criminalities in the nation’s maritime space. The Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Adm. Emmanuel Ogalla flagged-off the Operation on Wednesday at the NPA Jetty, Warri, Delta. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – The Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, has said the Commission has completed some key development projects and will embark on massive commissioning across the Niger Delta region in 2024. Speaking during an interactive session with...
By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – The Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Dr Samuel Ogbuku, has urged management and staff of the Commission to pray that the development and prosperity of the Niger Delta region continues to flow from the interventionist agency. Ogbuku made the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Nigerian Navy Forward Operating Base (FOB), IGBOKODA, in Ondo State, in the early hours of Thursday arrested a 77-meter-long Motor Tanker (MT) VINNALARIS 1 LAGOS involved in crude oil theft. This Director of Naval Information, Commodore Adedotun Ayo-Vaughan, disclosed this in...
A group, Niger Delta Peace and Development Advocates(NDPDA), has faulted calls for the removal of Mr Nyesom Wike as the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Mr Kelvin Ebi-Thomas, the President, NDPDA, said this when he spoke with newsmen in Yenagoa on Thursday. Ebi-Thomas...
The Defence Headquarters on Friday said troops of Operation Delta Safe have destroyed 51 illegal oil refining sites and recovered stolen crude oil and refined products in the Niger Delta in the last one week. The Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Edward Buba, disclosed in a statement...