President Umaru Yar’Adua said Tuesday that the country’s fuel supply situation will “normalize” in the next two weeks. Nigeria, one of the top eight leading crude oil producers in the world, has faced a severe shortage of gasoline and other … read more
The main militant group fighting in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region said it’s considering the release of British hostage Matthew Maguire, held since last September. Comments by the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Bob Dewar, noting the injustice done to the … read more
The unending fuel crisis in the country is the handiwork of a cartel operating in the nation’s oil sector, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua said yesterday with a promise to go after them. He described the cartel as “the greatest institutional … read more
BRITISH High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Bob Dewar, has attributed the lingering crisis in the Niger Delta to the years of alleged neglect of the area by successive governments in Nigeria. Dewar also urged the current federal administration to move … read more
A Nigerian, Taiye Ogboyomi, was last Thursday charged before a Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, for allegedly duping an American of $1m. The American businessman, Mr. Brandon Benson, narrated in graphic details before the court how Ogboyomi, … read more
Barely 24 hours to the kick-off of the first leg of the nationwide labour-instigated mass rally in Lagos, the Federal Government has raised an alarm over a possible break-down of law and order on account of the protest. This is … read more
A Shell Spy Police Sergeant, Sylvanus Ebhooman, and six others have been arrested by the Joint Task Force, Operation Restore Hope, for alleged pipeline theft. Coordinator, Joint Media Campaign Centre of the JTF, Colonel Rabe Abubakar, who confirmed the arrest … read more
Moves to address the lingering fuel crisis continued at the weekend with the Federal Government considering the recommendation of the Presidential Committee on Deregulation on the appropriate pricing of petrol. The current template of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency … read more
NIGERIA on Thursday in New York submitted a claim to the United Nations (UN) for the extension of its continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles. The documents for the claim were presented to UN officials of the Division for Ocean … read more
THE Nigeria Police Force is to have full powers to check election rigging and ensure free and fair polls in the country under a legislative proposal by President Umaru Yar‘Adua that also aims to send thugs out of election business. … read more