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Nigeria Air Crash: Rivers Lose Naval Commodore
Friday, 8 June 2012, 4:35 pm | Akanimo Sampson
GOVERNOR Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State, one of the key oil and gas producing states in Southern Nigeria, has confirmed that the state lose a Naval Commodore in the Sunday air crash in the country. More >>
Group To Nigerian Govt: Act On Warri Refinery Report
Tuesday, 29 May 2012, 12:44 pm | Akanimo Sampson
FOREMOST environmental rights advocacy group in Nigeria, Environmental Rights Action(ERA) has commended the House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream) for ordering the shutdown of the Warri Petrochemical Plant in Delta State, insisting ... More >>
Strange 'Democracy Day' Gift For Nigeria's Oil Minister
Tuesday, 29 May 2012, 12:40 pm | Akanimo Sampson
NIGERIA's Petroleum Resources Minister, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke, on Monday got a seeming strange gift from a civil society group in the Niger Delta, as President Goodluck Jonathan's administration rolled the drums for the country's 13th Democracy ... More >>
Serious Security Concerns On Bayelsa Guber Poll
Wednesday, 8 February 2012, 2:56 pm | Akanimo Sampson
THERE are some serious security concerns in the Niger Delta axis of Nigeria, ahead of the Bayelsa State governorship election, later this February. This is coming as former Governor Timipre Sylva, claimed last week that his Ijaw kinsman and Nigeria ... More >>
Fuel Scarcity Hits Niger Delta, Group Calls For Purge
Thursday, 19 January 2012, 12:04 pm | Akanimo Sampson
URBAN and rural areas in the Niger Delta, Nigeria's main oil and gas region, are currently experiencing a severe non-availability of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) popularly known as petrol, in the energy stations. This has resulted to long queues at the ... More >>
2012 Will Be Hot For You, Group Warns Chevron In Nigeria
Thursday, 22 December 2011, 12:40 pm | Akanimo Sampson
FOR the American oil giant, Chevron, the 2012 operational year is likely to be very unpleasant for them in the Niger Delta area, Nigeria's main oil and gas belt, if they failed to shift ground from their alleged ''divide and rule tactics''. The Niger ... More >>
Climate Talks: FoEI Blames US, Others For 'Failure'
Monday, 12 December 2011, 11:46 am | Akanimo Sampson
A GLOBAL federation of environmental rights advocacy groups, Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) has raised an alarm that the world is heading for environmental pandemic that will be worse than the HIV/AIDS scourge. Chair of the global federation ... More >>
Climate Change: Nigeria At Risk On Food, Activists Warn
Wednesday, 30 November 2011, 11:46 am | Akanimo Sampson
ENVIRONMENTAL rights activists from Nigeria, have started to sound fresh alarm that the country is at risk of looming hunger crisis if she fails to shift her focus from fossil fuel-driven economy to the green economy. Nigerian campaigners in an e-mail ... More >>
Don't Displace 20,000 Citizens, Court Orders Nigerian Govt
Tuesday, 15 November 2011, 10:37 am | Akanimo Sampson
A HIGH Court in Rivers State, one of Nigeria's key oil and gas blocks, has ordered Governor Chibuike Amaechi, who is also the Chair of the country's Governors' Forum, to stop his administration's planned eviction of over 20,000 citizens living at the ... More >>
Bitumen Exploitation Scares Nigerian Communities
Thursday, 3 November 2011, 11:55 am | Akanimo Sampson
WORRIED by the evils of crude oil in the oil-bearing communities of the Niger Delta, Bitumen-bearing communities of Ondo, Ogun, and Edo States of Nigeria, rose from a consultative forum in Benin City, the Edo State capital, on Tuesday, with a strong ... More >>
We'll Disrupt Oil Production In Nigeria - Group Warns
Thursday, 27 October 2011, 10:19 am | Akanimo Sampson
AN oil watch group, the Niger Delta Indigenous Movement for Radical Change has threatened to disrupt continued oil exploration and production activities in the country's oil and gas basin, if stakeholders continued to act with ''impunity'' in the Niger Delta ... More >>
Why Security Problems Persist in Nigeria--Workshop
Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 10:04 am | Akanimo Sampson
Poverty. Uneven development. Factionalised elites. These are some of the reasons a technical workshop on sustainable security in Nigeria, identified as the principal causes of the worrisome security challenges confronting the administration of President ... More >>
At 51, Nigeria Still Lacks Leadership, Says US-Based Scholar
Monday, 3 October 2011, 4:59 pm | Akanimo Sampson
Professor Felix M. Edoho, one of the erudite Nigerian scholars based in the US, on Saturday, took a hard look at the country at 51, and blamed all the unsettling security, political, socio-economic, religious and environmental problems on lack of leadership. More >>
Environmental Parliament Tackles Nigeria on UNEP Report
Monday, 3 October 2011, 1:45 pm | Akanimo Sampson
An Environmental Parliament in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, has faulted the Federal Government's approach to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report on oil pollution in Ogoniland. More >>
Niger Delta Militants Returning to Creeks—Group
Friday, 30 September 2011, 10:43 am | Akanimo Sampson
There are serious concerns in some quarters in the Niger Delta area, Nigeria's main oil and gas basin, over alleged re-grouping of some unrepentant insurgents in the creeks of the volatile oil region. More >>
Nigeria:Rights Group Backs Police on Bayelsa Security Outfit
Friday, 30 September 2011, 10:40 am | Akanimo Sampson
The Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (IHRHL) has given reasons why they are in full support of the decision of the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim, to scrap Famou-Tagbei, a special security outfit that was funded by ... More >>
Jonathan Needs Help On Wikileaks—A'Ibom Group
Friday, 30 September 2011, 10:36 am | Akanimo Sampson
A socio-political think-tank group in Akwa Ibom State, Eket Collectives, says the on-going seeming shocking revelations about corruption in Nigeria by Wikileaks, is a clear indication that President Goodluck Jonathan, needs help in his administration’s ... More >>
NDDC Top Job: Group Campaigns for Eket
Monday, 26 September 2011, 2:09 pm | Akanimo Sampson
Community Watch Nigeria (CWN), a community-based group in the Niger Delta, Nigeria's oil and gas region, is campaigning for the Eket axis of the oil basin to produce either the Managing Director or Executive Director of the Niger Delta Development ... More >>
Local Content War in Niger Delta, Group Mobilises Women
Thursday, 22 September 2011, 10:14 am | Akanimo Sampson
The relative peace in the Niger Delta, Nigeria's main oil and gas basin, will soon be shattered following renewed unease over how oil majors are allegedly treating the local content policy of the Federal Government. More >>
Group Blames Nigerian Constitution for Boko Haram
Wednesday, 21 September 2011, 11:18 am | Akanimo Sampson
AKWA Ibom Reforms Forum, a socio-economic and political reform group in Akwa Ibom State, has called on the National Assembly to urgently review the country’s constitution, saying the document is largely responsible for the terrorist acts of the Boko haram, ... More >>
