The Catholic priest who was abducted on Sunday evening in Rivers state in Nigeria’s Niger Delta oil region has been freed unharmed by his abductors, the police said Thursday. Rev. Father Pius Kii of the Christ the King Catholic parish … read more
ANOTHER step was taken yesterday by the Lagos State government in its determination to free the former federal capital of traffic gridlock and enhance security of lives and property. But this time, it was a collective decision of stakeholders as … read more
DESPITE the statement from the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Alhaji Yayale Ahmed, that President Umaru Yar’Adua began his leave on Monday and that the Vice President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, would be the acting president for the … read more
Ateke Tom-led Niger Delta Vigilante and Niger Delta Patriotic Force, have given the kidnappers of Reverend Father Pius Kii to return him within 48 hours or face dire consequence. The ultimatum was contained a in statement signed by spokesman for … read more
Governor Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa State narrowly escaped attack Monday, when a team of mobile police men and soldiers attached to him forced suspected armed robbers to beat a retreat at Elele, a border community between Rivers and Bayelsa State … read more
The increasing spate of kidnap of workers of Total Oil continued in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, as one Ngozi Ile, a worker with the oil giant was in the early hours of Sunday kidnapped by unknown gunmen. The kidnappers are … read more
Workers in the country’s oil and gas industry yesterday rejected the N5 reduction in the pump price of petrol approved by the Federal Government, describing it as “a calculated ploy to hoodwink Nigerians in order to introduce full deregulation of … read more
The Nigerian Army said yesterday that following unending threats by militants who obstruct construction and developmental projects especially roads and bridges in the Niger Delta, it had sent in proposals to the new ministry of the Niger Delta as well … read more
AMERICAN investigators have detected a pattern of foreign firms using bogus business consultants to facilitate bribery and corruption abroad, including Nigeria, where official sources indicated that most of the over 100 cases being probed by the U.S. government are found. … read more
Gunmen on Tuesday siezed and later freed a Lebanese construction worker in southwestern Nigeria’s oil-rich state of Delta, the military said. “He was abducted by unknown gunmen at the company construction site in Ekpan, Warri,” Colonel Rabe Abubakar, the military … read more