Category: Niger Delta

Oil giant Shell's long-overdue compensation pay out to a community devastated by oil spills in the Niger Delta is an important victory for the victims of corporate negligence, said Amnesty...

Uneasy calm has engulfed the South-South part of  Nigeria following renewed violence in the region and the vow by a faction of the Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND,to...

The Federal Government, yesterday, gave financial and material aid to 300 ex-Niger Delta militants to enable them start off their medium and small-scale businesses. The aid was given the ex-militants...

Call it faith, you are right, as the family of Mr. Lucky Ebebi, one of the 12 policemen presumed dead after an attack by ex-militants at Azuzama, Southern Ijaw Local...

If they made good their threat, at the time you are reading this, members of the taken-for-dead Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) would have resumed hostilities...

The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe, has solicited the support of governors of the nine states in the Niger Delta region as part of the ministry's sensitisation...

The people of Otumara Community, Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State, have asked the Shell Petroleum Development Company Limited, SPDC, to halt a proposed gas plant project in...

EX-militant commanders in the Niger Delta region have warned hoodlums to desist from further acts of kidnapping in the region. In a statement under the aegis of Leadership Forum for...

CRISIS hit the defunct Niger-Delta Liberation Force, NDLF, a militant group formed by the ex-militant leader, the late “General” John Togo, weekend, with the group torn into two factions. Spokesperson...

We witnessed ourselves firsthand the conviction of our dear leader yesterday the 21st of January 2013 by the South African Supreme Court on all the 13th count charges which as...