Nigerian security officials said they discovered a complex oil-stealing scheme involving a secret oil pipeline through a militant camp and onto a private jetty.
Foreign oil firms in Nigeria are lobbying for the government to extend its deadline for an end to the wasteful practice of gas flaring, a request the government appears disinclined to grant.
Nigerian Vice President Jonathan Goodluck shocked his colleagues and countrymen this week when he referred to his country's oil wealth as an economic curse to his country over the last 50 years.
Nigeria’s vice president has asked the United Nations to assist the government’s efforts to stop the flow of illegal arms to the oil-rich Niger Delta, though he stressed Abuja did not want to internationalize the issue.
Six Russian hostages, held prisoner by militants in the Niger Delta, were freed after more than two months amid gang violence in Port Harcourt that left at least 15 dead.
ABUJA, Nigeria, June 1 (UPI) -- Nigeria's new president is looking to foreign consulting firms to help with persistent violence plaguing the Niger Delta.