THE Federal Government’s bid to prosecute some top Nigerian officials linked with the $180 million Halliburton bribery may soon receive a boost. Reason: Albert Jack Stanley, the man at the centre of the fraud, has offered to assist investigators do … read more
Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) said on Sunday it had shut down flowstations feeding into its Trans-Niger oil pipeline in southern Nigeria as a precautionary measure after a fire at a manifold. The Anglo-Dutch giant said it had shut down some … read more
A private security official says gunmen commandeered a Nigerian naval vessel and killed one sailor during an attack an oil facility in Africa’s biggest oil producer. The official said about 18 boatloads of fighters hit the facility run by Royal … read more
A manifold at Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s (RDSB.LN) Bomu-Bonny oil pipeline in Nigeria caught fire early Sunday morning, according to an eyewitness. “Around 3 a.m. local time, there was an eruption from the Bomu manifold” next to the K.Dere community … read more
Ramzey Lawaz is determined to pursue university education abroad, because he is frustrated with difficulties in researching for academic assignments in Nigeria. The 19 year old student of Corona School has indicated interest in some universities in the United Kingdom … read more
More than $20m being proceeds of the controversial sales of Federal Government property in the United States is still withheld in a US bank account years after the sales of the houses in Washington, DC and Maryland. The Empowered Newswire … read more
Nigerian newspapers this week played up the face-off between the erstwhile number two citizen, Abubakar Atiku, and his former political party, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Also on the front burner was another political story bothering on the second … read more
Nigeria’s opposition Action Congress (AC) has condemned the alleged plan by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to enlist the support of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) to rig the 2011 general elections. MEND had … read more
Nigeria’s National Sports Commission (NSC) has named a panel to probe the circumstances surrounding the theft of US$236 million from the offices of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). In a statement, the NSC said the five-member panel should find the … read more
Although full list of those that will benefit from President Umaru Yar’Adua’s planned amnesty to Niger Delta militants is yet to be made public, Saturday Vanguard can however reveal some names sent to the presidency for the proposed pardon. The … read more