Oil & Gas

A September 21, 2023, enterprise news report (i.e., a news report that’s not from a news release or a press conference) from the Daily Trust found that “Despite the numerous assurances by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu that… subsidy is gone… the federal government paid N169.4 billion as subsidy in August …

On Tuesday, the petroleum pump price soared to N617 per litre at different outlets of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) in Abuja. The development follows a nationwide approval by the oil company for an upward review in the pump price of petroleum, coming after several months. In his …

An umbrella body of the Urhobo youth in the Nigeria Delta, Urhobo Youth Council, has called on President Ahmed Bola Tinubu to immediately halt the Niger Delta Development Commission’s, NDDC, 10,000 job hope initiative program, saying that it may end up as another drain on the he resources of the …

By Kelvin Ebikaowei … Commend Senate for due diligence and progress The Community leaders of Isoko communities, Abuetor and Osekwenike Communities of Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, have declared support and a vote of confidence on the Coalition of Isoko Youth for their efforts in pursuing the alleged …

Motorist, traders, human rights activists, and angry youths, protesting the fuel and new naira notes scarcity, barricaded the Asaba-Onitsha Expressway in Asaba, call for a better Nigeria, and also urged the Federal Government of Nigeria to arrest Managing Directors of commercial banks for allegedly hoarding the new Naira notes. Speaking on …

Major stakeholders from Oil Producing Communities in Ondo State have asked a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to stop the President Muhammadu Buhari, from inaugurating the Governing Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, pending the hearing and determination of the suit filed in Court. The Plaintiffs in …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja signed the 2023 Budget of N21.83 trillion along with the 2022 Supplementary Appropriation Bill into law. Speaking at the signing of the eighth and final annual budget of this Administration, the President said the aggregate expenditures of N21.83 trillion, is an increase of …

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has sent the name of Lauretta Onochie as the substantive chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission. The Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, on Wednesday, at the plenary read the nomination letters sent to the senate by the president.

Former Assistant Inspector General of Police and Elder Statesman of Isoko Nation, Felix Ogbaudu has urged the Federal Government to listen and give consideration to the request and position of Isoko Youths as regards inclusiveness in the pipeline surveillance contract awarded to the Niger Delta Region. Ogbaudu who spoke in …

The former commander of the defunct Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), Government Ekpemupolo, better known as Tompolo, has accused the Nigerian Army and Nigerian Navy, saying that illegal Oil bunkering are taking place around the location of their gunboats. The Niger Delta activist made the incriminating remark against …