A Niger Delta Environmental Advocacy group has commenced training of hundreds of fishermen on Coastal Environmental Monitoring and Advocacy in Yenagoa, Bayelsa capital. The capacity building programme held in Yenagoa on Friday, is coming amidst ongoing oil and gas leaks at Aiteo’s oilfields in Nembe and Conoil’s oil block... Read more
Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production Ltd on Friday said it is intensifying efforts to stop the ongoing Nov 5 leak from its operations at Nembe in Bayelsa. The assurance is contained in an update statement signed by Mr Victor Okoronkwo, Group Managing Director of the indigenous firm made available... Read more
Fishermen operating along the Santa Barbra River and Nembe creeks in Bayelsa on Wednesday lamented the adverse impact of the Nov. 5 oil leak from Aiteo’s oilfield near the area. The management of Aiteo, an indigenous oil firm which operates the Oil Mining Lease (OML) 29 said the... Read more
The Ijaw National Congress (INC) on Tuesday berated Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production Company over alleged poor response to the Nov 5 spill from its oilfields in Nembe Bayelsa. The group noted that it was wrong for Aiteo to attribute the wellhead leak within its oil bloc in... Read more
Ex-Niger Delta Militants To Begin Training In Cassava Factory First Quarter Of 2022, Says Consultant
The Project Management Consultant for the 60-daily-metric-ton Bayelsa Cassava Processing Factory, Mr. Adebowale Ayoade, has disclosed that about 1000 ex-agitators and delegates of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) will begin training at the facility first quarter of 2022 subject to the approval of PAP’s leadership. Ayoade, who described the... Read more
Mr Gospel Obolo, a sports enthusiast and Entrepreneur on Monday advocated use of frequent sports competitions to engage the teeming youth population as a means to discourage crime. Obolo, a Vice Chairman Kick-boxing Federation of Nigeria made the call at the opening ceremony of 2021 Ogbia Traditional Wrestling Festival... Read more
Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production says it is seeking foreign technical expertise to halt the ongoing Nov 5 oil leak at an oilfield it operates in Nembe, Bayelsa. The oil firm in a statement issued by its Spokesman, Mathew Ndianabasi on Sunday noted that the oil firm has intensified... Read more
The Bayelsa government on Friday said it was not satisfied with the inability of Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production Company to plug ongoing leaks at its field in Nembe, two weeks after the incident. The government reaction was contained in a statement issued by Mt Ayibaina Duba, Bayelsa Commissioner... Read more
The Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (Rtd) on Wednesday said the Amnesty Programme was collaborating with Bayelsa Starch plant on training. The 60-metric ton daily capacity Cassava Processing Factory in Bayelsa will train and employ the ex-agitators on cassava farming and starch processing.... Read more
The Movement for the Survival of the Izon Ethnic Nationality in the Niger Delta, (MOSIEND), has asked the Minister of Niger Delta, Sen. Godswill Akpabio to resign for lack of performance. MOSIEND regretted that Akpabio has betrayed the hopes and expectations that heralded the announcement of his appointment... Read more
