Hurricane-strength winds and rain tore through the islands of Nigeria’s commercial capital on Monday, killing at least one person and downing trees across major roadways. The storm brought torrential rains through Ikoyi, Lagos and Victoria islands, the centers of commerce …
Royal Dutch Shell PLC says it is repairing a trunkline after detecting a leak blamed on oil thieves in Nigeria’s oil-stained southern delta. A Shell spokesman said in a statement Tuesday evening its Nigerian subsidiary has cut production by 70,000 …
The worst Nigeria offshore oil spill in more than a decade has been contained before reaching the West African nation’s coast, officials with Royal Dutch Shell PLC said Monday, less than a week after one of its lines bled crude …
Authorities say 16 people are dead in Nigeria after two buses crashed head-on into each other on a highway. Sunday Maku of the Federal Road Safety Commission told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the collision happened after one of …
Royal Dutch Shell PLC long has argued that thieves are to blame for most of the oil spills coming from pipelines in Nigeria’s crude-producing southern delta. Now the company is trying to prove that claim in real time on the …
West African countries are discussing the creation of a regional force to tackle growing piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, a senior Nigerian government official said on Wednesday. Piracy is a growing threat to shipping in West Africa’s Gulf of …