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 ...

is the lighting up of the Niger Del­ta, which has banished darkness from many communities in the Niger Delta region through the installation of solar-powered street lights. The lighting up of the ...

Fringing the delta of the Niger River, local mangrove forests are essential to biodiversity and the survival of local communities. In Nigeria, scientists, activists and lawyers are joining forces ...

Activists, including King Okabi of the Ogale community, have called for an end to oil giant Shell's pollution in the Niger Delta and demanded compensation as the trial between Ogale and Bille ...

ABUJA-FORMER Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El_Rufia has raised the alarm that Nigeria was at the moment facing existential threat and that the Niger Delta like the role it played has been ...

The Niger Delta Development Commission is set to take sports in the region to the next level with the Niger Delta Games, after their strides in infrastructural development, the Games consultant ...

A group, the Niger Delta Eco Monitors has called for the Group Chief Executive Officer of the NNPC Ltd, Mr. Mele Kyari, to be given more time to complete the rehabilitation he has begun in the ...

Organisers of the Niger Delta Sports Festival (NDSF) have made reasonable progress in the upgrade of some of the sporting facilities identified for competitions. A turning point in the ongoing ...

Around 28 GAA pitches worth of mangrove land is lost every day in the Niger Delta due to oil pollution. Nearly 6,000 hectares of mangrove forests in the Niger Delta are lost to oil spills annually.