The Joint Task Force (JTF) comprising the Nigeria Navy, Air Force and Army, on Thursday, launched ‘Operation Jagunlabi’, to fight pipeline vandals around the creeks in Lagos. The Flag Officer Commanding, Western Naval Command, Rear Adm. Slyvanus Abbah, who flagged off the operation in Majidun, Ikorodu, told journalists that it was aimed at combating the […]
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Operatives of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) surveillance team on Wednesday arrested a policeman and a tanker driver who were part of a pipeline vandals syndicate reportedly using a Lagos hotel as a base. The surveillance team traced the smell of petrol to a burst pipeline which was allegedly channelled to a waiting tanker at […]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has appealed to pipeline vandals to desist from destroying pipelines in the country. NNPC says it has marked its pipelines to avert vandalism and fire outbreaks to sustain the current steady supply of petroleum products nationwide. Maikanti Baru, the group managing director, NNPC, said this in Abuja on Tuesday. […]
Continue ReadingThe Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said from January 2016 till date, government lost 7 billion dollars (N2.1 trillion) to the activities of militancy groups and oil pipeline vandals in the Niger Delta region. The Group Managing Director of NNPC, Dr Maikanti Baru, said this on Friday in Abuja at the 2016 Fiscal Liquidity Assessment […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s crude oil production has declined massively from an average of 2.2 million barrels per day last year to about 1.4 million barrels per day due to increased vandalism of crude oil pipelines by vandals. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, said on Monday while appearing before a special session of the […]
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