In order to protect the health of its citizens and visitors to the United Kingdom, UK, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, a government agency regulating food items in Britain, has banned the importation of some food items from countries outside … read more
The Minister of Police Affairs, Dr. Ibrahim Yakubu Lame, has said that the directive given to the Nigeria Police Force by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) to withdraw policemen attached to individuals as guards does not affect judges and legislators. … read more
The stretch of road that ushers one into the largely rural hamlets and villages that make up Ibeno local council of Akwa Ibom State is lined with some 18 hurriedly constructed structures that house officers of the Nigerian Police Mobile … read more
The first thing that used to hit visitors to Nigeria’s commercial hub was a gridlock of rusty yellow buses and the tumbledown stalls of the vast Oshodi market — the whole amid the unrelenting din of horns, sirens and vendors. … read more
ATTACKS on vessels off the Nigerian coast are going unreported and could exceed those occurring off the coast of Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden, International Maritime Bureau divisional director Michael Howlett has warned. While there were 40 attacks … read more
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Thursday suspended a brokerage firm blamed by fuel retailer African Petroleum (AP) (APET.LG) with deliberately forcing down its share price over the past two months. The NSE said on Wednesday it was investigating allegations … read more
THERE are indications that crude oil theft from the upstream sector of the oil industry in the country has worsened in the last six months, accounting for about 680,000 barrels per day of about 1.3 million barrels per day (bpd) … read more
THE Federal Government has lost about N105.1 billion since November 2008 due to the shutdown of the Soku gas plant in Rivers State, which used to provide 40 per cent of the gas need of the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas … read more
The Joint Task Force (JTF), code-named Operation Restore Hope, on Thursday raised the alarm that a militant group led by a certain Kingsley Opuye was planning an attack on oil and gas installations in the Niger Delta. According to a … read more
Eight policemen attached to the convoy of the Delta State Commissioner of Police, Mr Jacob Oshiomogor, were killed yesterday during an exchange of gunfire with armed robbers. Mr Oshiomogho, however, escaped death by the whiskers. The attack took place at … read more