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JRS launches project to strengthen oil spill resilience in Akwa Ibom community

Nigeria, Aug. 7 -- The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Nigeria has launched a new project aimed at strengthening the resilience of an oil-producing community in Akwa Ibom State against the devastating im... Read More


Ogoniland: 51 civil society groups oppose planned resumption of oil production

Nigeria, Aug. 7 -- Fifty-one civil society organisations have opposed plans to resume oil production in Ogoniland, calling on the federal government to abandon the move and instead focus on cleaning u... Read More


Agric tech firm seeks stronger partnerships for mechanised farming

Nigeria, Aug. 6 -- Agricultural technology company Hello Tractor has called for stronger collaboration among governments, financial institutions, technology providers and private operators to build a ... Read More


Two arrested in Akwa Ibom for digging up fresh corpse to steal, sell casket

Nigeria, Aug. 6 -- The Nigeria Police Force, Akwa Ibom State Command, has arrested two persons, including the manager of Mbiokporo Cemetery in Uyo, over the alleged exhumation of a freshly buried corp... Read More


Heritage Energy yet to contain Delta oil blowout after five weeks

Nigeria, Aug. 5 -- Five weeks after an oil well blowout in Delta State's Uzere Kingdom, the operator, Heritage Energy Operational Services Limited, is yet to fully contain the incident, raising concer... Read More


Former deputy bureau chief of The Guardian, Anietie Akpan, dies

Nigeria, Aug. 4 -- Veteran journalist and publisher Anietie Akpan is dead. Mr Akpan, a former deputy bureau chief of The Guardian in Nigeria's South-south region, died on Sunday night, according to t... Read More


Ebonyi spent 6.2 per cent of health capital budget in first half of 2026 despite N210.64bn revenue

Nigeria, July 29 -- The Ebonyi State Government released only 6.2 per cent of its health sector capital budget in the first half of 2026, even as education spending also lagged behind budgetary provis... Read More


Shell documents reveal 'basket' pipeline, missing wells, $10.9 billion clean-up liability in Niger Delta - Report

Nigeria, July 29 -- Internal Shell documents disclosed in a United Kingdom court case have exposed what rights groups describe as years of neglected infrastructure, weak environmental oversight and at... Read More


Donor cuts, govt inaction push HIV patients towards death, uncertainty in Rivers, Akwa Ibom (I)

Nigeria, July 28 -- Grace* spent years protecting two things: her health and a secret she never wanted exposed. Every few months, a community health worker discreetly delivered her antiretroviral med... Read More


Police assures of investigation into Akwa Ibom pastor's death

Nigeria, July 27 -- The Nigeria Police Force in Akwa Ibom State said it has commenced an investigation into the death of a pastor, Etetim Udo, whose body was found inside his church premises in Oron L... Read More