Uzoma Okere, the lady brutalised Monday by armed naval ratings attached to Rear Admiral Harry Arogundade, has dragged the Nigerian Navy before a Lagos High Court, reports Saturday’s issue of the privately-owned Punch newspaper. In an enforcement of fundamental human … read more
Rivers State Governor Chibuike Ameachi has denied that he contrinutted N50 million to the Niger Delta Vigilante Movement to acquire arms for the 2007 electioneering campaigns. Comrade Tom Atake, the head of Niger Delta Vigilante Movement accused the Governor of … read more
About 2,500 fresh troops have been deployed in the Niger Delta from the western and northern parts of the country, the Commander of the Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta, Operation Restore Hope, Brig.-Gen. Wuyep Rimtip, has said. Rimtip, … read more
Several people, including navy personnel, were killed during a gun battle between rival gangs over local politics in Nigeria’s southern oil-producing state of Bayelsa on Friday, residents said. Fighting in the town of Nembe — nestled in the mangrove creeks … read more
Gunmen in speedboats attacked the Nigerian military at an oil flow station operated by U.S. energy firm Chevron late on Thursday but the facility was not affected, the military said on Friday. “Last night, some men in speedboats attacked our … read more
An environmentalist group and four Nigerians filed suit against Royal Dutch Shell PLC in the Netherlands on Friday, claiming the company was negligent in cleaning up oil spills in Nigeria. The civil suit filed by the four men and Friends … read more
President Umaru Yar’Adua wants former OPEC Secretary-General Rilwanu Lukman to take over as minister of energy as part of a cabinet reshuffle, a presidential aide told Reuters on Friday. Lukman, who is an honorary advisor to Yar’Adua on energy and … read more
Stakeholders, including a representative of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Ian Facer, yesterday urged greater coordination among those involved in Nigeria’s quest to achieve its dream of generating power through nuclear energy. A communique issued at the close of … read more
FEDERAL Government, Shell and other stakeholders of Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) have spent a total of N1.521 trillion ($13 billion) on the Bonny gas project, which has provided some solutions to the global energy security and diversity. Out of … read more
COMMERCIAL banks in Aba, the economic capital of Abia State, yesterday shut their doors against customers to protest the state of insecurity in the town particularly the increasing wave of kidnapping and armed robbery. The warning strike, as they called … read more