"Oloibiri" is an enlightening film that makes it easy to comprehend the plight of the Niger Deltans abandoned by the government and oil multinationals. It is also a movie based on true life events; ...

The first Nigerian commercial oil well in Oloibiri, a community in Ogbia Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, was once likened to a proverbial old and feeble woman abandoned by her ungrateful ...

Oloibiri Well No 1. It is the display board on the first oil rig in Nigeria. The visible advertised signal of the first Oil Well relic appeared like the ‘first atomic bomb on Hiroshima’ mark of an all ...

For Nigerian production designer and art director, Labiran Mayowa, every wall, chair, stain and empty corner on a movie set must tell a story before an actor even speaks. From working on the ...

It's a new cinema week, and we have lots of great movies showing in the cinemas this week. From "Queen of Katwe," "Inferno," to "Oloibiri" check out this week's cinema schedule. Synopsis: when a man ...

Oloibiri came alive in an event organised in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, by the Shell Producing Development Company (SPDC). Who will forget Oloibiri in a hurry? It has always been said that the history of ...

Long before the creation of Bayelsa State on October 1st 1996, the Oloibiri Oil Museum Tower was designed by the Federal Government in conjunction with an Italian Consortium for the construction of a ...

The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited has expressed delight at the planned construction of the Olobiri Museum and Research Centre in Otuabagi, Ogbia Local Council of Bayelsa State ...

“The history of the Nigerian and oil and gas industry woven into one man. From being an 18-year-old school certificate trainee technician in Shell-BP in 1959 to the NLNG CEO in 1990 and NNPC GED in ...

Yenagoa — The recent oil spill from the Oloibiri Well 2 which prompted the Bayelsa State House of Assembly to invite the Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) to appear ...

This development has laid to rest an age-long contradiction over the rightful owner of the land where oil was first discovered in commercial quantity and quality in Otuabagi community in the Ogbia ...

OIL WELL NO. 1, NIGERIA — Three decades after pumping its last drop, the first oil well in Nigeria is marked by a decrepit signboard bearing what would seem an uncontroversial statement: Oloibiri Well ...