In support of ongoing efforts to boost Nigeria’s daily crude oil production, Nigerian Navy personnel attached to Forward Operating Base (FOB...

Nigerian troops arrested 43 suspected oil thieves and seized more than 254,000 litres of stolen fuel in a series of operations across the oi...

Nigeria has stepped up its drive to crack down on oil theft in the Niger Delta region as it aims to increase national production to 3 millio...

At dawn, the dense creeks and swamps of the Niger Delta are enveloped in an eerie silence, which is interrupted only by the intermittent chi...

Nigeria's oil-rich Rivers state will provide six gunboats to the navy for patrols as part of efforts to help combat oil theft, which has...

A new plan has been proposed by key security Agencies to protect the country’s oil and gas industry through tightening border controls and i...

The Nigerian army said on Wednesday that it had destroyed at least 27 illicit oil refineries and seized around 100,000 liters (26,400 gallo...

The Nigerian Navy reports it tracked and subsequently arrested a Panama-registered bunker vessel which it is accusing of oil theft. They tra...

A crude oil pipeline explosion killed at least one person and injured another on Friday, authorities on the scene said, while members of the...

More than 11,000 Nigerians from the oil-producing Niger Delta have filed a compensation claim against Shell at the London High Court. Some...

Nigeria is facing unprecedented levels of theft of its main export. The theft of oil is costing the country an estimated $700m a month. An...

The Gulf of Guinea is witnessing a shift in the dynamics of piracy, with criminal networks moving away from targeting commercial maritime an...

A Nigerian court has charged 26 men with conspiracy to commit a maritime offence and attempting to illegally deal in crude oil after authori...

Nigeria has lost nothing less than 120 million barrels of crude oil from January and September this year amidst revenue crisis. The level of...

 Nigeria's defense chief defended the destruction of a seized ship that was smuggling stolen oil, saying no investigation was needed. Cr...

Oil major Shell's (SHEL.L) Nigerian subsidiary is investigating reports that an illegal oil tap ran for nine years on a pipeline it ope...

Officials in Nigeria discovered an illegal connection line from one of its major oil export terminals into the sea that had been operating u...

Nigeria’s government has turned once again to a man it previously hunted as a thief and enemy of the state, recruiting him to curb rampant t...

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari expressed concern on Friday over large-scale crude oil theft, saying it was affecting the country...

Africa's largest oil producer, Nigeria, says thieves and vandals cost the country up to 200,000 barrels of oil per day - that's bill...