• Hausa Edition
  • Podcast
  • Conferences
  • LeVogue Magazine
  • Business News
  • Print Advert Rates
  • Online Advert Rates
  • Contact Us
Monday, August 4, 2025
Leadership Newspapers
Read in Hausa
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
  • Columns
  • Football
  • Others
    • LeVogue Magazine
    • Conferences
    • National Economy
  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
  • Columns
  • Football
  • Others
    • LeVogue Magazine
    • Conferences
    • National Economy
  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
Leadership Newspapers
No Result
View All Result

Bunkerers Causing More Damage In Niger Delta Than Oil Firms – Group

by Anayo Onukwugha
2 years ago
in News
Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on XTelegram

 

Advertisement

A civil society organisation, the African Indigenous Foundation for Energy and Sustainable Development (AIFES), has declared that activities of illegal oil bunkerers in the Niger Delta region was causing more damage to the environment than those of oil companies operating in the area.

AIFES executive director, Legborsi Pyagbara, made the declaration yesterday in Port Harcourt while speaking at a stakeholders’ dialogue on Ogoni clean-up.

The dialogue themed, “Ogoni UNEP Report: Youths Mobilising for Justice and Social Change,” attracted youth leaders and representative of youth groups from several communities in Ogoni land.

“One of the challenges we are facing at the moment is oil bunkering. It is clearly driven by the youths. If you look at it, the damage it has done to our environment in the last few years of intensive bunkering of oil in the Niger Delta, has done us more damage than even what we contemplated from the oil companies.

RELATED

Kano Govt Insists On Deadline For Land Recertification

Desertification: Kano Gov Flags Off Distribution Of 5.5m Tree Seedlings

2 minutes ago
PPDC Launches $4,000 Grant For Investigative Journalists

PPDC Launches $4,000 Grant For Investigative Journalists

28 minutes ago

“What I am trying to say is the damage we have done to ourselves in bunkering, though we condemn the oil companies for what they are doing, we have done far more damages to ourselves than even what the oil industry has done.

“It might have been done in complicity with them but if you allow an outsider to come to your own house and connive with strangers to destroy your own house, who are you doing? Are you doing the strangers or you are doing yourself?” Pyagbara queried.

He stated that the aim of the dialogue was to mark the 12th anniversary of the submission of the report of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on Ogoni environment to the federal government.

“We are gathered here today because on August 4, 2011, the United Nations Environment Programme formally submitted its report on Ogoni environment to the federal government.

“For us in Ogoni, the submission of that report was very strategic and it was a watershed in the struggle of Ogoni people for a better environment,” the AIFES boss said.

 

 


We’ve got the edge. Get real-time reports, breaking scoops, and exclusive angles delivered straight to your phone. Don’t settle for stale news. Join LEADERSHIP NEWS on WhatsApp for 24/7 updates →

Join Our WhatsApp Channel




SendShareTweetShare
Previous Post

Traffic Wardens Threaten Strike Over Promotions

Next Post

Ohanaeze Tasks South East Governors On Sit-At-Home Order

Anayo Onukwugha

Anayo Onukwugha

You May Like

Kano Govt Insists On Deadline For Land Recertification
News

Desertification: Kano Gov Flags Off Distribution Of 5.5m Tree Seedlings

2025/08/04
PPDC Launches $4,000 Grant For Investigative Journalists
News

PPDC Launches $4,000 Grant For Investigative Journalists

2025/08/04
Nyanya/Karu Residents Laud Wike Over Restoration Of Potable Water
News

‘Pray For Me Daily, I Deal With Lawless Elite,’ Wike Tells FCT Residents

2025/08/04
PICTORIAL: Ex-Soldiers Protest, Demand Outstanding Entitlements In Abuja
News

PICTORIAL: Ex-Soldiers Protest, Demand Outstanding Entitlements In Abuja

2025/08/04
Arsenal Launch £42.5m Swap Deal For Lookman
News

Atalanta CEO Confirms Pact Lookman Amid Transfer Speculation

2025/08/04
1 Feared Killed In Fresh Communal Clash Between Osun Communities
News

Travels: Osun Gov’t Denies Misuse Of Public Funds

2025/08/04
Leadership Conference advertisement

LATEST

Desertification: Kano Gov Flags Off Distribution Of 5.5m Tree Seedlings

PPDC Launches $4,000 Grant For Investigative Journalists

‘Pray For Me Daily, I Deal With Lawless Elite,’ Wike Tells FCT Residents

PICTORIAL: Ex-Soldiers Protest, Demand Outstanding Entitlements In Abuja

Atalanta CEO Confirms Pact Lookman Amid Transfer Speculation

Travels: Osun Gov’t Denies Misuse Of Public Funds

Coalition Asks UBEC Boss To Resign Over Alleged Infractions

PDP Must Uphold Outcome Of South-South Congress — Wike

How To Check 2025 WAEC Result Online

BBNaija S10: Thelma Emerges First Female Head Of House

© 2025 Leadership Media Group - All Rights Reserved.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
  • Columns
  • Football
  • Others
    • LeVogue Magazine
    • Conferences
    • National Economy
  • Contact Us

© 2025 Leadership Media Group - All Rights Reserved.