Africa's Nontobeko Mlambo attended the 20th African Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC), held at Witwatersrand ...

The sale of SPDC was always going to be emotive for Nigeria. It is the biggest and oldest oil company in the country, operating 3,173 kilometres of pipelines and flow lines that cross a vast swath of ...

Nigeria is aiming to produce 2 million barrels per day of oil by the end of this year, as the revival of the West African ...

Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri has called for reparations and an extensive environmental cleanup to counter the “decades ...

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.

This is not the first time Shell is blaming anyone but itself for its long legacy of environmental pollution in the Niger Delta. In the past, the company had crafted narratives suggesting that the ...

Nigeria's state oil firm NNPC said on Thursday it had increased oil production to 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd), with the possibility of getting to two million bpd by year-end.

A group of Ijaw stakeholders headed by Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State is seeking reparation for environmental pollution caused by oil companies operating in the state.

Four in every five people in Africa cook using wood, charcoal and other polluting fuels in open fires or inefficient stoves.

Mr Diri said the group made the demand through the Bayelsa Oil and Pollution Commission report titled, "An Environmental Genocide: Counting the Human and Environmental Cost of Oil in Bayelsa, Nigeria, ...