By Ridwan Adekunle The Federal Government has scored a major point with the arrest, repatriation, and arraignment of the Very Large Crude Carrier, (VLCC) MT Heroic Idun suspected of being involved in the illicit activity. This is in line with…
By Ogaga Ariemu Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), on Monday, backed human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) that there is a deliberate attempt to cover up the involvement of military personnel in the serious crime of oil theft.…
Elder states-man and Ijaw Leader, Chief Edwin Clark has called on the Federal Government to institute a judicial inquiry to investigate oil theft in the country. Clark, who made the call while addressing a news conference on Monday in Abuja,…
Contrary to claims by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited that oil bunkering started 20 years ago, the crimes had been on for more than five decades, Niger Delta leader and First Republic Federal Commissioner for Information, Edwin Clark, clarified…
Officers of the Nigerian Navy in Delta State on Monday destroyed an illegal oil bunkering vessel arrested with stolen crude oil aboard Niger Delta creeks. It was gathered that operatives of the newly-contracted private oil pipeline surveillance team, Tantita Security…
…Illegal bunkering would soon become a thing of the past — Tompolo Our correspondent No less than additional 42 tapping points by crude oil bunkers on Nigeria’s oil pipelines in two states – Delta and Bayelsa, have been further uncovered…
By Barth Ndubuwah, Port Harcourt The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Rivers State Command said it has arrested 19 suspects over oil theft and illegal dealings in petroleum products. Addressing journalists at the NSCDC Command Headquarters in Port Harcourt, the…
Critical stakeholders have underscored the need to tackle illegal oil bunkering in the Niger Delta, lamenting that the country’s revenue is dwindling drastically due to the activities of oil thieves. The stakeholders who spoke in during interviews in some of…
By Uthman Salami The Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO), Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, Mele Kyari alleged that churches, mosques, security agencies as well as host communities were involved in crude oil theft. The NNPC boss made this allegation…
By Bisi Adewumi The Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Awwal Gambo has said that there is a significant miscalculation in claims of how much Nigeria is losing in terms of oil theft as the figures provided are outrageous and…
