Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Chief Executive Officer of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, has secured the release of 27 ex-militants detained by the Ghanaian authorities over unruly behaviour at the vocational institute where … read more
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Monday signed a contract agreement with seven contracting partners to drive the SIM Card registration process for six months. The seven contracting partners will handle the registration process in different parts of the country. The … read more
Tehran’s ambassador to Nigeria said Tuesday that arms seized in October at a port in Lagos were destined for the Gambia and followed an agreement between Iran and the small West African nation. The controversial arms shipment sent from Iran … read more
Developers of the Blackberry phone; Research In Motion (RIM) has through it’s Managing Director for Africa, Mr. Deon Liebenberg announced that the Blackberry App World, an application that had initially been closed to users on the continent has now been … read more
President Goodluck Jonathan who is contesting for the presidency under the Peoples Democratic Party PDP kicked off his campaign in Lafia, the capital of the North Central Nigerian state of Nasarawa. There are other presidential candidates in opposition political parties … read more
A US appeals court refused to reconsider a lawsuit that accused Royal Dutch Shell of helping Nigerian authorities violently suppress protests against oil exploration in the 1990s. In a divided vote that prompted a bitter debate among some of its … read more
The Muslim fundamentalist group, Boko Haram, has given conditions to enable its members stop slaughtering innocent Nigerians in some parts of the North. The group said it would stop inflicting pains on the people if the Borno State Governor, Senator … read more
IN a swift response to deep-water horizon oil spill and subsequent explosion of the drilling rig in the Macondo prospect oil field of the Gulf of Mexico, the Federal Government said it would soon establish ‘search and rescue’ and aerial … read more
Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has again extended the voter registration, which was due to end Saturday, the commission has announced. However, the two-day extension will only be in areas of the country where the exercise did not begin … read more
Nigeria’s largest helicopter company, Bristow Limited, has said that the federal government’s amnesty programme for militants has improved the level of aviation safety in the area. Describing the amnesty initiative as one that has “positively worked” for the aviation industry, … read more