By Martin MetiehFor nearly 70 years, communities in Nigeria’s Niger Delta have continued to bear the environmental and human cost of oil and gas exploration, even as the region remains the backbone of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - A member of Shell staff on the Bonga offshore oil Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel off the coast of the ...

A renowned environmentalist, Dr. Nnimmo Bassey, has stated that when the environment is eroded, life expectancy is also eroded. He revealed that the main promoters of the environmental evils, some of ...

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has urged oil firms to protect communities from gas flaring and pollution. The commission promised to work with International Oil Companies (IOCs) and ...

Members of the Ogale and Bille communities had applied for the case to be heard in Britain, arguing they could not get justice in Nigeria. Members of the Ogale and Bille communities had applied for ...

The governor of Nigeria’s Bayelsa state has renewed calls for oil companies like Shell and Eni to pay $12 billion to clean up the pollution from their operations in the state over the past 50 years.

Shell plc SHEL has been operating in the Niger Delta for more than 60 years. During that time, there has been thousands of oil spills and leaks from Shell's pipelines and equipment. The pollution has ...

As it passed above the Niger Delta in 2021, a satellite took an image. It showed acres of land, scraped bare. The site, outside the city of Port Harcourt, was on a cleanup list kept by the United ...

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell faces a lawsuit from four Nigerian villagers on Thursday in a case that could set a precedent for damage claims against international companies. Filed in a ...

At about sixteen minutes into this video, the al-Jazeera film crew tour a polluted creek and visit an illegal refinery in Bodo. I have traveled in the Niger Delta and sometimes thought I had gone to ...