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Is oil discovery a curse to Nigerian host communities?

With a maximum crude oil production capacity of 2.5 million barrels per day, Nigeria is Africa's largest oil producer and the 13th largest oil-producing...
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Spill: Group clamours replacement of outdated pipelines, closure of abandoned wells

Oil firms operating in Nigeria’s oil rich but restive Niger Delta region have been called upon to change all the oil pipeline infrastructure that...
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Richard Steiner: Why Nembe must catalyse new paradigm of oil responsibility in Nigeria

The recent catastrophic oil and gas blowout at Nembe, Bayelsa State, again tragically highlights the continuing failures of oil management in Nigeria. The Nembe blowout...
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Women clamour feminist economy to restore Niger Delta ecosystem

“Without women, without collective effort we cannot really restore the Niger Delta environment.” This assertion was made by Chief Emem Okon, the Executive Director of...
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Conservation

National Park service to establish parks in Niger Delta

The National Park Service (NPS) has pledged its commitment to establish more parks in the Niger Delta region and preserve the available forests across...
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Nembe oil spill substantially contained – Aiteo

Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production Company (AEEPCO) has said that the oil spill at its Oil Mining Lease (OML) 29 Wellhead at Nembe in Bayelsa...
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Nembe: 2m barrels of crude spilled into river, says Bayelsa gov

Gov. Douye Diri of Bayelsa State, on Wednesday, December 1, 2021, visited the site of the ongoing oil leak in Nembe, 25 days after...
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Divestment from onshore oil production in Niger Delta: Trends and implications

Most oil production licenses in Nigeria will soon be operated by domestic oil companies (DOCs), rather than international oil companies (IOCs), for the first...
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