Nigeria, Africa’s biggest oil producer, has set itself a target of boosting daily production by about three fifths to 2.7 ...

An ongoing oil spill at a wellhead and subsequent fire in Buguma community in Nigeria's coastal Rivers state has entered its fourth week, with no immediate action taken by authorities or operators to ...

Following the persistent oil spills and gas flares in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria occasioned by the ... the multinational oil giants to end the pollution. The communities are the Eteo ...

The Senate panel said the coordinator has repeatedly shunned its invitation to explain why the Ogoni land in the Niger Delta area has yet to be cleaned up despite the release of $360 million for the ...

Nigeria, Africa’s largest exporter of natural gas, has flared its highest volume of natural gas in four years, a development that has ...

On Apr. 30, 2024, as the sun rose over Lagos, bulldozers rolled in to the Oniru waterfront, a popular leisure hub, where they ...

The Nigerian Constitution establishes environmental protection through several interconnected provisions. Section 20 explicitly ...

The Niger Delta, in southern Nigeria, is one of the most ... been plagued by severe environmental pollution for decades, primarily due to extensive oil exploration and production activities.

Ogoniland, in Nigeria's coastal Rivers state, is a flashpoint for pollution in the oil-rich Niger River delta region where a $1 billion cleanup was launched in 2018 following a comprehensive 2011 ...

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The Nigerian government should stop pretending not to know what Ogonis want . It should create a state for the Ogoni people .

The organisations, which signed the statement, include Miideekor Environmental Development Initiative, Ogoni Solidarity Forum-Nigeria ... oil extraction, referencing the 2011 United Nations ...