Felix Duru Mbah

*Firm Confirms Clamping Done, Spill Clean-up Underway Nigerian oil firm Renaissance Energy has halted production into the country's Trans Niger Pipeline (TNP), a major oil artery transporting crude from onshore oilfields to the Bonny export terminal, following an operational incident, the firm said today, May 16. An environmental rights group said yesterday (Thursday) that the pipeline burst on May 6 and spilled oil into the local B-Dere community in Ogoniland, the second such incident affecting the pipeline in two months. Nigerian oil consortium Renaissance Group, which now owns Shell's former onshore subsidiary that operates the pipeline, "immediately isolated the pipeline…

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has reportedly arrested Fred Ajudua, a Lagos-based socialite and businessman, in connection with an alleged $1.43 million fraud. The arrest took place in Abuja on Tuesday, following a Supreme Court order issued on Friday, May 5, 2025, which revoked his bail and directed that he be remanded in the Correctional Service. A highly placed source at the EFCC headquarters in Abuja who spoke in confidence, informed Vanguard of the development. “Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested Lagos-based socialite and businessman Fred Ajudua, pending his re-arraignment for an alleged $1.43…

The 450,000 barrels per day (bpd ) Trans Niger Pipeline (TNP), a major oil artery transporting crude from onshore oilfields to the Bonny export terminal, burst and spilled oil into the local B-Dere community in Ogoniland, Rivers State, an environmental rights group said on Thursday, May 15. This is the second incident affecting the Trans Niger Pipeline in two months. In March, the pipeline was shut after a blast that caused a fire. Executive Director, Health of Mother Earth Foundation, Nnimmo Bassey, said the spill, which occurred on May 6, was yet to be stopped, adding that the slow response…

*Accuses President Of Lacking Political Will, Insensitivity By our reporter Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential flagbearer in the 2023 presidential poll and former Vice President (VP) Atiku Abubakar has tutored the government of President Bola Tinubu on how the administration of then President Olusegun Obasanjo decisively fought insecurity. Abubakar, popularly known as Atiku, was VP under Obasanjo. Their administration ran from 1999-2007. His accusation came amid several assurances by the Federal Government, from time to time, that it was on top of the nation's security situation. Addressing a delegation of stakeholders from Kogi East Senatorial Zone, led by former Kogi…