Category: West Africa

Nigeria will talk with the Niger Delta Avengers militant group which has claimed a string of attacks that cut crude output sharply, its oil minister said. The southern Delta swamps, where many complain of poverty and oil spills, have been hit by militant attacks on oil and gas pipelines which have brought Nigeria’s oil output…

The Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees (AUPCTRE), has decried the failure of the federal government, states and local governments to implement the New Pension Act 2014 for workers. The union, therefore, urged all tiers of government to fully comply with the provisions of the Act and implement it,…

The Federal Government on Monday said it had evolved two strategies – engagement and security – to halt attacks on oil installations in the country as a result of the renewed insurgency in the Niger Delta region. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo disclosed this on Monday at the State House during a meeting with a delegation…

Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has withdrawn from the ongoing trial of former Benue governor, Gabriel Suswam. Mr. Suswam and his former Commissioner for Finance, Omadachi Oklobia, are standing trial on alleged diversion of N3.1 billion, money laundering and breach of public trust. Mr. Mohammed withdrew from the trial in protest…

Two oil firms operating in Nigeria say they lose 140,000 barrels of crude daily due to recent attacks on their facilities by militants. The attacks by a militant group, believed to be the Niger Delta Avengers, caused the loss, according to Eni and Aiteo from their oilfields in Bayelsa. At about $48 per barrel, an…

Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has said the parlous state of the nation’s economy will continue throughout the tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari, causing the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led government to fail woefully. Fayose gave this assertion yesterday in his address during the thanksgiving service marking the first anniversary of the fifth assembly of…

After waiting in line for more than four hours to buy gasoline in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, taxi driver Adebayo Olawole considered himself fortunate he got a half-filled tank. The day before, he got to the front of the line and was told there was none left. “I’ve not made any money in two days,” Olawole,…

Nigeria’s President Buhari is launching what would be the biggest oil clean-up exercise the world’s ever seen… if he’s really serious Could 2016 be the year that a proper clean-up of the oil-stained creeks and fields of the Niger Delta finally gets underway? That’s certainly the promise of the Nigerian government, with President Muhammadu Buhari…

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has cancelled at the last minute a visit planned for Thursday to the oil-producing Niger Delta, which has been hit by a wave of militant attacks, a government source said. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will instead visit the restive southern region to launch a cleanup programme of the Ogoniland, an area…

Militants have attacked a boat belonging to Nigeria’s state oil firm NNPC in the Niger Delta, killing at least six people, the army said on Thursday. “During the deliberate attack two soldiers were killed, one wounded, one soldier missing while four civilian staff attached to the house boat were shot dead,” the army said in…