PETROLEUM and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, has accused theleadership of Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, Committee on Expatriate Quota of compromise. The umbrella body for senior staff in the nation’s petroleum industry demanded for the immediate … read more
At least 19 people have been shot or hacked to death in a brutal attack in a village in north-west Nigeria, police say. Eyewitnesses said about 150 people raided the village of Lingyado, in Zamfara state close to the border … read more
Shell has never denied that its oil operations have polluted large areas of the Niger Delta – land and air. But it had resisted charges of complicity in human rights abuses. Court documents now reveal that in the 1990s Shell … read more
At least three cases involving Nigerians claiming to have lost their manhood (penis) to suspected cultists are currently in the news. But they have not received prominence like that of the gang rape of a young woman in Abia State … read more
A witness says suspected members of a radical Muslim sect threw a bomb at soldiers in Nigeria’s restive northeast, killing two bystanders at a nearby wedding. The attack happened Saturday in Maiduguri, the home of the sect known locally as … read more
SECURITY operatives have foiled an attempt by about 920 suspected members of Boko Haram to infiltrate the federal capital, Abuja ostensibly to carry out the earlier threat by the group to bomb the city during today’s 51st Independence Anniversary celebration. … read more
A British national, who is said to be in the employ of Shell Petroleum Development Company, is now on the watch list of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) at Onne Port for allegedly importing illegal arm and ammunition into Nigeria. … read more
FOLLOWING reported threats by the members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect to extend their onslaught to notable federal universities in country, security has been placed on the red alert at the University of Nigeria. Our correspondent who visited the … read more
Six suspected members of a radical Muslim sect accused of plotting bombings that killed 25 people in Nigeria have pleaded not guilty to the charges they face. The six men appeared Friday at the Federal High Court in Abuja for … read more
Gunmen attacked a ship Friday supplying an Exxon Mobil Corp. offshore oil rig near the coast of Nigeria, kidnapping a sailor and leaving another wounded, an official said. The attack happened off the coast of Akwa Ibom state, the home … read more