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Nigerian Navy Acquires 250 Gun Boats To Battle Oil Thieves In Niger Delta

Nigerian Navy has acquired 250 boats several, several Offshore Patrol Vessels and Seaward Defence Boats in sustained fortification of its fleet to tackle oil...

Niger Delta: Suspected Oil Thieves Set Agip Pipeline On Fire

Unscrupulous people, described as crude oil thieves have set fire on an oil pipeline, belonging to Italian oil giant Agip at Ubeta community in...

Navy Detains 57 Sailors Over Crude Oil Smuggling, Illegal Refining

No fewer than 57 sailors have been arrested in Rivers State by the Nigerian Navy for allegedly smuggling crude oil and illegally refining diesel. The...

Nigeria: 22 Million Barrels Of Crude Oil Stolen In First Half Of 2019 – Obaseki

Godwin Obaseki, the governor of Edo State, said the nation lost about 22 million barrels of its crude oil production to oil theft between...

Oilfield Shutdown: Rivers Communities Turn To United Nations To Block Shell’s Return

Host communities of Oil Mining Lease, OML 25, in Kula Kingdom, Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State, have called on the United Nations,...

5 Oil Workers Kidnapped In Rivers

About five oil workers were on Tuesday, May 14, 2019, kidnapped by gunmen within the Oil Mining Lease, OML-55 operated by an indigenous oil...

Cross River: Soldiers Destroy 500 Drums Of ‘Adulterated Diesel’ In Raid At Smugglers’ Den

The Nigerian Army has destroyed 500 drums of adulterated diesel and two cars seized from smugglers in Jebs Community in the Calabar South Local Government...

Gunmen Kill Police, Kidnap 2 Shell Workers In Rivers

Unknown gunmen in Nigeria’s oil-rich state Rivers have killed two police guards and kidnapped two Shell workers, according to a police report on Saturday,...

Politicians Are Stock-Piling Arms In The Niger-Delta – Ex-Militants

Some ex-militant leaders in the Niger Delta region have expressed worry over illegal arms stockpile by politicians in the area ahead of the February...

Niger Delta Militant Group, WANDE, Threatens To Disrupt 2019 Election

A new militant group known as War Against Niger Delta Exploitation, WANDE, has threatened to disrupt the 2019 elections if its demands on the...

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