In the heart of Nigeria, where the air smells of oil and the soil holds an abundance of wealth, the Niger Delta region stands as a stark paradox: an area blessed with natural resources yet plagued ...

The Niger Delta Community Youth Association has demanded that 40 percent of oil licences be allocated to people from the oil-producing areas. The group made the demand through demonstrations ...

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC ... responsibilities in fast-tracking the development of Nigeria’s oil-rich region. Related PostsComplete your abandoned projects in Abia, Otti ...

It read in parts, “The recent barefaced demeaning pattern of allocating oil-prospecting licenses to non-Niger-Delta interests is an unacceptable, unjustifiable, and anti-developmental trend of a ...

A group, under the aegis of the Niger Delta Community Youths Association based in Bayelsa, Akwa-Ibom, Edo, Rivers, Cross-River, Delta, Imo, Abia and Ondo States have expressed strong objection to ...

The fund is compensation for years of oil exploration and exploitation, which a civic organisation, the Clean Ecosystem Foundation stated in a report issued at the weekend. President Bola Tinubu ...

Tension rises in the Niger Delta on Wednesday as youths from Bayelsa, Rivers, Delta, and other oil-rich states demand a 40% allocation of oil bloc licenses to local investors. Organized under the ...

Nigeria’s underdeveloped but oil-rich Niger Delta region currently is the site of a crippling insurgency. Fueled by a complex mixture of protest, crime, and political corruption, the network of ...

Militia Stages Attacks in Niger Delta Seeking Local Control of Oil The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, or MEND, first emerged in January 2006 when it launched coordinated attacks ...