Port Harcourt — The International Working Group on Petroleum Pollution and Just Transition in the Niger Delta, IWG, has raised fresh concerns over the devastating health impacts of oil pollution in ...

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.

Diri disclosed this at the Annual Convention and Fund Raising of the Ijaw National Congress (INC) of the Americas, held in Houston, Texas, U.S., on Sunday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports ...

The Senate on Wednesday, May 22, mandated its committees on Petroleum Upstream, Downstream, Gas, Niger Delta Affairs, Health and Environment, to investigate a recent gas pipeline explosion in Bayelsa ...

Speaking on behalf of the groups in Lagos on Wednesday, Secretary, Ijaw Elders Forum (IEF), Lagos chapter, Mr Efiye Bribena, made the call at a joint news conference on ‘Multinational Panel Report’.

Residents of the riverine community of Bille say their livelihoods have been lost because of oil pollution British multinational Shell continued operating a major oil pipeline in Nigeria for years ...

Located in the heart of Nigeria’s Niger Delta, Bayelsa State epitomises a paradox of wealth and hardship. Despite its abundant oil reserves that drive the national economy, local communities endure ...

Niger Delta communities' case against Shell will be heard in English court, opening door for other multinational parent companies to be sued for environmental damage The UK Supreme Court delivered a ...

British multinational Shell continued operating a major oil pipeline in Nigeria for years even though it knew it was causing widespread pollution - despite a warning from its own staff that it was ...