In January 2006, a fledgling group known as the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta People (MEND) kidnapped a group of oil workers, setting in motion a series of high-profile abductions of ...

Southern Nigeria’s vast Niger Delta boasts Africa’s most extensive mangrove forests — and some of the world’s largest fossil fuel reserves. Efforts to extract oil and gas have resulted in numerous oil ...

Niger Delta Indigenous Contractors Association (NDICA) has lauded leadership of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Speaking with reporters in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, Acting ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. After decades of crude oil spills and the introduction of invasive plant species, thousands of hectares of mangroves in the Niger Delta are ...

Cleaning up the oil spills along the Niger Delta is no quick or easy task. Yet for one 501(c)(3) non-profit it's dedicated to alleviating the oil spill issues by Shell and other companies, which are ...

Le projet de dépollution du delta du Niger, financé à hauteur d’un milliard de dollars, s’est soldé par un échec. Corruption, incompétence et pollution persistante laissent un bilan accablant, au ...

An international research team led by the University of Galway has used Earth observation radar data to map oil pipeline networks covering a 9,000 km 2 region in the Niger Delta and pinpoint where ...

Nigeria’s Niger Delta region is rich in natural resources. Its vast oil and gas deposits are the mainstay of the country’s economy. The region, in the southernmost part of the country, features ...

After nearly seven decades of oil exploration in the Niger Delta, the Nigerian oil industry now makes up 65% of government revenue and 88% of foreign exchange earnings. But this oil wealth has come at ...