Author Archives: Chief Oyibo

18 to vie for President

A picture of the presidential candidates for the April 9 election emerged yesterday. Eighteen candidates have so far cleared the hurdle to contest the election, sources told The Nation. More candidates are likely to emerge before the expiration of the … read more

Plans to replace expatriate pilots

The Managing Director of Bristow Helicopters, Capt. Akin Oni, has said the company has put a policy in place to replace all existing expatriate pilots and engineers with Nigerians by 2015. Oni, who disclosed this last week in Lagos at … read more

Death toll in stampede rises to 12

President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday cancelled planned campaign rallies in two northern states after a stampede killed 12 people at an election meeting he addressed the day before. Police said Sunday that a 12th victim had died in hospital following … read more

Pirates fire at chemical vessel

Pirates in a fishing boat opened fire on a chemical vessel in a suspected robbery attempt off the coast of Nigeria, an international maritime agency said on Friday. The International Maritime Bureau said the sailors of the vessel spotted a … read more

Five killed in attack in Plateau State

Five people including a child were shot dead in an overnight attack in violence-wracked central Nigeria over a cattle dispute, police and medical officials said on Friday. Police in Plateau State said “cattle rustlers” stormed residential quarters of a soil … read more