A gunman in Nigeria shot at a helicopter travelling between oil facilities operated by Italy’s Agip (ENI.MI: Quote, Profile, Research) in the Niger Delta on Wednesday but the aircraft landed safely, the military said. Lieutenant-Colonel Nkana Efik, commander of the … read more
Nigeria has charged six Ghanaians and a Nigerian with stealing 4,000 metric tonnes of crude oil in the Niger Delta, its anti-corruption agency said on Wednesday. Some estimates say 100,000 barrels of crude are stolen from the Niger Delta every … read more
A Portuguese engineer who was kidnapped in southwestern Nigeria was released after spending three weeks in captivity, his family and Portuguese officials said Wednesday, according to Lusa news agency. Jose Luis Rosa, an engineer with the construction firm Picolo, had … read more
An outbreak of Lassa fever was reported when the Chief Medical Director of National Hospital Abuja (NHA), Dr Olusegun Ajuwon, confirmed that one patient from the Federal Capital Territory, and two others from the adjoining Nasarawa State, were brought to … read more
Nigeria’s main militant group said it repelled military forces attacking one of its camps Thursday in the restive southern region of Africa’s biggest petroleum producer. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta said in an e-mail statement that … read more
A Russian oil tanker was attacked by pirates off the Nigerian coast but managed to escape with no casualties or damage, a source at a Russian shipping company said on Tuesday. The Khatanga, owned by the Murmansk Maritime Shipping Company, … read more
THE Joint Task Force (JTF), code-named Operation Restore Hope, on Tuesday applauded last Friday’s judgment of the Federal High Court, Benin, convicting the 13 Filipinos arrested on November 14, 2008, for illegal oil bunkering. According to a statement issued by … read more
Nigerian advanced fee fraudsters have broken into the webmail account of UK Justice Secretary Jack Straw to mount an audacious, and potentially politically embarrassing, scam. Hundreds of Straw’s contacts received a bogus (and frankly implausible) message on Thursday claiming the … read more
Nigeria says countries around the Gulf of Guinea should work together to make the region safer. Gunmen, allegedly from Nigeria, attacked Equatorial Guinea’s presidential palace, last week. The Gulf of Guinea has seen persistent acts of piracy, in recent years. … read more
Hobbled by a persistent power problem that seems to have defied solution, Nigeria has voted a massive 323 billion naira for raising its power generation and tackling transmission and distribution problems (US$1=145 Naira). The money, jointed contributed by the 36 … read more