MOSOP says it is a foreign legal adventure, which has no backing in Ogoniland. The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP says the lawsuit by Ogale villagers in Ogoniland against the Royal Dutch/Shell is a foreign legal adventure … read more
Vice Admiral Ola Ibrahim, the Nigeria Chief of Naval Staff, has said that African Navy needed to cooperate to curb the activities of sea pirates in the continental coastal water. The Naval chief told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) … read more
The maze of shacks on stilts stretch out across the filthy water’s surface, canoes colliding as they hustle between them in a slum that serves as a warning for the world’s fastest growing continent. Tens of thousands of people live … read more
Shell Petroleum Development Co. of Nigeria Ltd. has awarded a contract for line pipes worth over NGN7.8 billion ($47 million) to SCC Nigeria Ltd., a Shell spokesman said Monday. Tony Okonedo, Shell’s Corporate Media Relations Manager, said in a statement … read more
The Police in FCT say 13,000 officers will be deployed to prevent crimes during and after the Eld-el-Kabir celebration. Mr Michael Zuokmor, the Commissioner of Police in the FCT, said this on Friday while parading suspected armed robbers and vandals … read more
Nigeria said it had been losing 28 billion naira annually on pensions for non-existent government ‘ghost workers’, a further sign of the impact corruption has on sub-Saharan Africa’s second-largest economy. New Finance Minister and Coordinator of the Economy Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala … read more
There are no two ways about it; oil is to Nigerians what blood is to life. Nigeria’s economy literally runs on it and any policy taken by government in the oil and gas sector always affects them. With the planned … read more
IT will be a rare spectacle this Friday, November 4, when a Christian ministry devoted to the conversion of people considered as gross sinners holds its “Guys Night” in Lagos. Smoking, drinking of alcohol and dancing to immoral music – … read more
A loud explosion hit the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Sunday, residents said, with the area targeted by scores of bomb and gun attacks blamed on an Islamist sect. It was not immediately clear whether there were deaths or … read more
Last Wednesday’s collapse of a six-storey building at Maryland, Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial city, did not come as a surprise. It was never the first. If anything, building collapse has become, perhaps, the most challenging debacle the state government has continued … read more