Gunmen on Tuesday attacked a boat carrying oil workers in Nigeria, leaving one worker dead and underscoring dangers for energy firms operating in Africa’s oil giant as unions prepared to strike over growing insecurity. The gunmen attacked a boat carrying … read more
THE closure of the 18L runway of the Lagos airport caused by the skidding off of a DHL B727 aircraft last Thursday is affecting traffic flow in and out of Lagos. Aircraft now spend more time taxiing to the second … read more
Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC) can now heave a sigh of relief over its shut oil wells in Akigbene and Fierebaghagbene communities in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, as the government has directed the indigenes to re-open … read more
TWO persons have been arrested by the State Security Service (SSS) in connection with the kidnap of six foreign oil workers working for Peak Petroleum Nigeria Limited by militants in Bayelsa State, about three months ago. The Bayelsa state government … read more
A lengthy statement from al Qaeda No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks calls on Muslims to step up their resistance against the United States. “Your leaders are hiding from you … read more
The proposed three-day warning strike by Nigerian oil workers this week, to protest rising insecurity in the Niger Delta, may affect the country`s oil production and export, going by reports in the local media Sunday. According to the reports, leaders … read more
STATE Security Service (SSS) operatives in Delta State are now on the trail of a Warri-based female socialite said to be a sponsor of militants operating in the Niger-Delta region just as about 300 militants have either fled the region … read more
LEADERS of the oil workers in the country have directed members in the export and other strategic terminals to begin the process of shutting down all operations towards the planned three days national strike beginning Wednesday to protest amongst others … read more
The management of TSKJ which is handling the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas project in Bonny, Rivers State, which was rocked by a face-off with its workers has announced that agreements have been reached for the resumption of full scale work … read more
General Ibrahim Babangida (IBB)�s quest for the nation�s top job in 2007 may have run into bad weather if feelers coming from his political camp are anything to go by. The former military president�s camp has allegedly broken along lines … read more