DESPITE repeated reassurances from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that the current fuel scarcity which has hit some states across the federation would soon end, the situation seems only to be worsening, as the price of fuel continues to … read more
Nigeria’s Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) export has suffered yet another major setback as Shell Petro-leum Development Company (SPDC) has announced the shut down of its Soku Gas Plant in Rivers State, exactly two months after the plant resumed operations. The … read more
The travel plans of over one million British Airways (BA) passengers are to continue on schedule as a High Court has issued an emergency injunction to stop a 12-day strike by the airline’s cabin crew staff over Christmas. Over 90 … read more
Nigeria’s most vocal opposition party, the Action Congress (AC), has slammed the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Justice Minister, Michael Aondoakaa, for “seeking to pull the wool over the eyes of Nigerians with his string of poorly-thought-out comments on … read more
Pipeline vandalism at Arepo Village in Ogun State, on Monday, may have slowed down distribution of petroleum products in Lagos area, thereby aggrevating the fuel scarcity which has lasted for three days. The vandalism, which was discovered late Monday night, … read more
His problems seemed to have come to an end on the night of October 3 this year, when he accepted the Federal Government’s amnesty offered to militants in the creeks of Niger Delta. Then, he had renounced violence and militancy, … read more
TWENTY- FOUR days after he was taken to Saudi Arabia for medical attention, the hide-and- seek game over the state of health of President Umaru Yar’Adua continued yesterday with top Federal Government officials preferring that Nigerians be silent over the … read more
The federal government, in keeping with its efforts aimed at strengthening the gains of the just concluded amnesty process, yesterday inaugurated a presidential committee and four sub-committees for the Niger Delta. The committees include the Presidential Committee on the modalities … read more
TWENTY-FOUR days after President’s Umaru Yar’Adua was admitted to the King Faisal Intensive Care and Research Centre, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta has warned that the prevailing ceasefire in the region was being … read more
President, West African Bar Association, WABA, Mr Femi Falana, yesterday, initiated an action, asking a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to compel President Umaru Musa Yar’adua to immediately empower the Vice-President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan to discharge the functions of … read more