Another round of tension has gripped the oil industry in the Niger Delta over the renewal of the N48billion oil pipeline surveillance contract awarded to the
A former Politics Editor at LEADERSHIP Newspapers Group and the immediate-past Commissioner for Information and Orientation in Ondo State, Donald Ojogo, of
Operatives of the Special Joint Task Force and men from a private security firm, Galaxy Security Services, yesterday, busted an illegal oil bunkering syndicate syphoning crude oil from Chevron/NNPC rigs on the high seas in Ondo State.
The Joint Special Forces have busted a syndicate siphoning crude oil from Chevron/NNPC rigs on the high sea in Ondo state, Southwest Nigeria. Bibopere Ajube, leader of the Galaxy Security Services in Ilaje Local Council Area of the state, who led the special military forces, discovered the evacuation points of the bunkering syndicate. "Two monster boats used for the illicit operations by the syndicate were located at different points where they were hidden within suspended residential raft houses at Awoye island community," Mr Ajube said in Akure on Tuesday.