Demonstrations and Crowds: Victoria Island and Lekki Peninsula The wake for the late Funsho Williams will be held this evening, at 5:00 p.m., at Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos. A memorial ceremony will take place at the same location tomorrow, Thursday … read more
Two Norwegians and two Ukrainians were kidnapped at gunpoint from an oil services ship off the coast of Nigeria on Wednesday, the latest in a series of abductions in Africa’s top oil producer, authorities said. In a separate hostage crisis … read more
Nigeria has begun pulling its troops out of the Bakassi peninsula ahead of Friday’s deadline to hand it over to Cameroon, the Nigerian military said on Monday. The International Court of Justice ruled in 2002 that Nigeria should turn over … read more
An oil services firm, Halliburton, has paid N711 million to a community in Trans Amadi, Port Harcourt in Rivers State as compensation over a major industrial pollution from the company�s facilities that affected the area in June 1996. The payment … read more
A unit of Halliburton is under investigation by the UKs Serious Fraud Office over the US oil service companys part in an alleged plot to pay more than 170 mln usd of bribes to win work at a Nigerian gas … read more
Worried by increasing use of small arms by students of tertiary institutions in the country, the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Sunday Ehindero, has warned parents and guardians not to allow their wards to be used by politicians and other … read more
A group which called itself the “Movement of the Niger Delta People (MONDP)” yesterday claimed responsibility for the kidnap of a German national, Mr. Didone Shephard last Friday and demanded for the release of Alhaji Asari Dokubo and former Governor … read more
The International Crisis Group has warned that except the situation in the Niger Delta is amicably resolved, it could escalate into a full blown war in the next one year or two. It, therefore, called on the United States and … read more
The Federal Government has said South African satellite broadcast firm, Direct Satellite Television (DSTV), a subsidiary of Multichoice, can no longer broadcast the English Premiership League (EPL) in Nigeria. THISDAY gathered weekend that the Minister of Information and National Orientation, … read more
Still no contact between Nigerian authorities and abductors of three Filipinos and a German, all employees of oil firms in the oil-rich Niger Delta southern region. Meanwhile, the local Guardian newspaper reported another armed attack against an unidentified installation of … read more