TWO years to the 2011 general elections, rigging strategies allegedly being put in place by some politicians have put the Action Congress (AC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on the warpath. The AC, which fired the first shot, said … read more
Nigeria’s Presidency Thursday said President Umaru Yar’Adua had no hand in the alleged withdrawal of police escorts attached to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. The Presidency, however, expressed sadness at “the sort of politics” it alleged media handlers of the … read more
The Nigerian government is deliberating on what it must do about the Niger Delta crisis and the Nigerian economy as Dow Jones news wire, recently estimated the country’s revenue loss to be about $20.7 billion as a result of the … read more
CIVIL society group, Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN) says the geographical spread of criminal activity from the Niger Delta, Nigeria’s main oil and gas region, is a symptom of more persistent problems that have not been addressed over the past four … read more
GOVERNOR Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa State has described the travel advice issued on Tuesday by the British government, warning its citizens against travelling to the… Niger Delta, region as misleading. He described the warning as an “unacceptable misrepresen-tation” of the … read more
Atiku Abubakar knew he had it coming when he kicked both President Umaru Yar’Adua and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday and, as anticipated, the reaction a day later was a throw back to the knock-downs and drag-outs between … read more
Giuseppe Canova, the Italian national from Castione della Presolana (Bergamo) who was kidnapped on Monday in Nigeria, is well. AGI received the news from Italian sources who are negotiating his release. The sources say that there are present attempts to … read more
THE Federal Government yesterday gave an update on its bid to unmask the senior Nigerian officials that allegedly collected bribe from Halliburton to award contracts in the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) projects. Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Chief Kaase … read more
Family members of a 10-man Nigerian crew held in captivity by Somali pirates since August 2008 have appealed to Nigerian Senate President David Mark to intervene to save their breadwinners from imminent death. A petition signed by Trigo Egbegi, Dorcas … read more
Siemens, Halliburton, Shell, Wilbros, Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR) and Starcrest, are all multinational companies with one thing in common. They and their officials have been or are being investigated by authorities in the United States, France, Germany, Switzerland and … read more