A young Nigerian was Wednesday charged with attempted murder and trying to use a weapon of mass destruction aboard a US plane, as under-fire security chiefs vowed to revamp intelligence services. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, was indicted on six counts … read more
Ailing Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua, who has been in hospital overseas for the past six weeks, has spoken to the vice president and heads of parliament, a government minister and state governor said. It was not clear what was discussed … read more
The Bayelsa State office of oil giant, Chevron, along Imgbi Road, Yenagoa, was shut Wednesday by irate youths protesting the alleged signing of a Global Memorandum of Understanding (GMoU) in Port Harcourt instead of Yenagoa. They also threatened to shut … read more
On Wednesday in Abuja, Governors who are members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) held a “solidarity” meeting with Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, after which they declared that they do not know when President Umaru Yar’Adua would return from Saudi … read more
Amnesty International has accused Shell Nigeria of human rights abuses, spreading pollution and other crimes against corporate responsibility (CSR). It provoked Paul Holmes, editor and publisher of The Holmes Report, to argue that companies will and should be held to … read more
THE Chevron -owned multi-million naira Escravos-Gas-To-Liquid (EGTL) project in Warri South West local government area of Delta State Monday evening ran into troubled waters, as trigger happy soldiers shot dead three workers and severely injured others for yet undisclosed reasons. … read more
NIGERIANS continued yesterday to live under the hobbling impact of fuel scarcity as the product still sold for N100 instead of the official N65. The development made the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) to call on the Nigerian … read more
A Nigerian man accused of trying to detonate explosives on a US-bound flight has provided “useful intelligence” to FBI interrogators, according to US officials. Robert Gibbs, the White House spokesman, said on Tuesday that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab gave the information … read more
.K. security services were aware of airline-bombing suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab before his alleged Christmas attack on a U.S.-bound flight but didn’t consider him a threat, Home Secretary Alan Johnson told Parliament on Tuesday. “During [Mr. Abdulmutallab’s] time in the … read more
As controversy and anger continue to trail the listing of Nigeria as one of the 10 countries on the United States of America’s top security watch list, the Senate has threatened to severe diplomatic relations with the country if by … read more