The Commissioner of the Lagos State Police Command, Marvel Akpoyibo, said on Monday that armed robbers have found a new way of robbing drivers on the highway. “We need to inform the members of the public of the new trend … read more
An employee of Belgrade’s Energoprojekt Dragan Stepanović, who was kidnapped in Nigeria, has managed to escape. He told the FoNet news agency that he was able to escape because his captors probably did not expect that He would know the … read more
There are no records to account for this country’s massive but haphazard importation of petroleum products, according to an official survey carried out last week. The survey, carried out by a Federal Government team led by engineers from Telemetry Nigeria … read more
The division within the leadership of the coalition of “ex-militant” groups in the Niger-Delta, the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger-Delta (MEND) seems to have taken a turn for the worse as some leaders of former militant groups, which are … read more
A year ago, the world was taken aback when on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom a nerve-taking documentary entitled Saving Africa’s Witch Children was aired. The demeaning scenes of tortured and stigmatised children tore hearts apart, human rights organisation, … read more
The Code of Conduct Tribunal yesterday in Abuja issued a bench warrant for the arrest of the former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu for his failure to appear before it to take his plea. … read more
Exxon Mobil Corp. ended months of negotiations with Nigeria by renewing three oil leases for fields the company operates in the country, an Exxon spokesman said. The three leases — for sites that produce more than 550,000 barrels a day … read more
There is a sigh of relief in the Niger Delta as the Federal government of Nigeria began the first installments of monthly allowances that were promised to former militants in exchange for peace and civility. Earlier this month, the former … read more
Swiss authorities said Friday that they had ordered some 350 million dollars of assets to be seized from the son of the late Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha for graft. “The first order of the sentence issued yesterday by the examining … read more
When white Zimbabwean farmer Irvin Reid arrived in Nigeria almost five years ago, he was given a set of grid references in the remote bush and told to find water and build a new farm. His dairy farm now has … read more