The transformation of Nigeria’s Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs into the Ministry of Regional Development (MRD) in October 2024 has introduced a new administrative architecture with far-reaching ...

Coalition of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) led by Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) in collaboration with Social Action on Monday kicked against the divestment of oil assets in the ...

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), under its project “ Strengthening the Niger Delta Peace Architecture through Community-Based Crime and Violence Prevention Strategies ”, is ...

But the entire Niger Delta is a textbook example of the resource curse. Somehow possessing one of the richest deposits of oil in the world has made this region poorer and more unstable .

The Niger Delta hosts the second largest petroleum reserves in Africa, with the Nigerian economy heavily dependent on the industry. But since the extraction and processing of oil started in the ...

The troops of 6 Division, Nigerian Army have sustained the pressure on the economic saboteurs in the Niger Delta region arresting 43 suspected oil thieves and deactivating 14 illegal refineries.

Participants from Akwa-Ibom, Rivers and Imo states-three new states integrated into the LIFE-ND framework-have benefitted from a five-day intensive training aimed at strengthening sustainable ...

Judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on Monday that Equatorial Guinea has a legal claim to a cluster of small islands in potentially oil-rich waters in the Gulf of Guinea ...