The European Union plans to boost aid to Nigeria in the next five years with a large portion aimed at supporting the OPEC member’s security forces, a senior European official said on Friday. The EU has proposed increasing its financial … read more
The thirteen Filipino seamen who were last week convicted by Justice Chukwura Nnamani of the Federal High Court in Benin City for stealing crude oil have been released from jail. This was confirmed yesterday by Filipino Vice President and Presidential … read more
Men of the Nigerian Army on Thursday invaded the camp of Woki Godswill Ibralayu alias Kitikata who last week attacked the multi-billion dollar Brass Oil Terminal belonging to Italian oil giant, Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC). Six militants were reportedly … read more
The Nigeria Police Force Bayelsa State Command said on Friday that there were no more cult killings in the state. The state commissioner of police, Mr. Julian Okpaleke, said in Yenagoa that the police had wiped out all gang related … read more
The pump price of premium motor spirit otherwise called petrol could rise to about N73.37k per litre if the Federal Government and other stakeholders ratified the open market price of the product as calculated by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory … read more
The Presidential Steering Committee on the Global Financial Crisis has said that the Federal Government will no longer continue to subsidise the prices of petroleum products in the country It also said the planned privatisation of the nation’s four refineries … read more
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has claimed it killed over six soldiers after an attack on one of its camp by the military in Ke River, Rivers State, on Thursday. Spokesman of the militant group, … read more
Two days of clashes between rival cults in Edo state have left at least eight people dead, Nigerian police confirmed on Thursday. “At least eight people died in the violence,” Edo police spokesman Peter Ogboi told AFP. Local media said … read more
Nigerian leaders are promising to move ahead with planned efforts to reform the country’s oil and gas sector despite the continuing violence plaguing the petroleum-rich Niger Delta. Speaking to petroleum investors at a conference in Lagos, Nigerian Oil Minister Rilwanu … read more
Nigeria’s army raided a militant camp in the oil-producing Niger Delta on Friday, recovering arms and ammunition in what it said was part of an offensive to flush criminals out of the creeks. Colonel Rabe Abubakar, spokesman for the joint … read more