Group warns persistent oil spills and gas flaring are worsening health crises and environmental destruction across Niger ...

Major groups in the Niger Delta used the opportunity of the World Environment Day (WED) to demand for full implementation of ...

Mkpoikana UdomaPort Harcourt — The Media Awareness and Justice Initiative, MAJI, has called on the Federal Government to immediately end gas flaring and strengthen environmental regulation, warning ...

Gas flaring, a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, saw a significant increase in 2023, reaching the highest level since 2019. The World Bank's Zero Routine Flaring initiative, endorsed by ...

Gas flaring puts the equivalent of over 400m tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere The process known as "gas flaring" has been condemned as a danger to the environment and human health, as well ...

Anyone aware of our country’s journey through gas flaring and the many failed attempts to end it would not be moved by the latest government-set deadline—2030. We set out on this path many years ago, ...

Despite ratifying the Paris Agreement in May 2017, experts say Nigeria presently shows little sign of meeting its ...

A World Bank report outlines the amount of excess natural gas that is burned off, a practice that wastes energy and increases climate-warming emissions. The amount of natural gas flared worldwide ...

The House of Representatives on Tuesday asked its relevant committees to conduct an investigative hearing to ascertain the level of compliance with the Flared Gas (Prevention of Waste and Pollution) ...

At a Railroad Commission meeting last month, Commissioner Jim Wright chastised Callon Petroleum for flaring natural gas at a drilling site, saying it should “find a better solution.” But his comment ...

Felicity Bradstock is a freelance writer specialising in Energy and Finance. She has a Master’s in International Development from the University of Birmingham, UK. Oil and gas companies did not reduce ...