Gunmen in Nigeria have kidnapped two Lebanese construction workers in the southern oil-producing Niger Delta and are demanding a ransom for their release, security sources said on Wednesday. The men were working for Setraco, a local engineering company specialising in … read more
Armed men have kidnapped two sons of the Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, Chief Goodluck Opiah. The boys, aged between 10 and 12, were said to have been accosted and taken away by the gunmen at the … read more
Warri Refinery was on Wednesday directed by the Federal Government to increase the supply of diesel by six truckloads per depot, as part of initiatives to stave off a national strike by oil workers. The government gave the directive after … read more
Seventy-eight (78) members of the Movement for Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) were yesterday arraigned before the Federal High Court, Enugu on an 8-count charge of treasonable felony by the Federal Government. The suspects were said to … read more
The National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association (IPMAN) are bracing for a fight with the government over back door hikes in the price of fuel. Diesel now sells for N145 per … read more
THE Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) on Tuesday said the N9,400 minimum wage was no longer realistic and proposed a minimum wage of N30,000. The congress, in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in … read more
IT was a tragic day in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Tuesday when people suspected to be cultists unleashed mayhem on the Choba Park campus of the University of Port Harcourt, killing a lecturer, two students, a woman passerby and … read more
Productivity in the Nigerian economy is likely to fall in the next four years, according to a new report by the Economist Intelligent Unit (EIU), contradicting government�s projection for the same period. According to the report, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), … read more
Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has seized 80 metric tonnes of cannabis in one of its largest ever hauls, officials say. The drugs were seized by NDLEA agents in a single raid in the south-western city of Ibadan, … read more
As the deadline for the voluntary disengagement of staff of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) expired last Friday, the management of the oil company is set to lay off about 2,500 of its workforce, who refused to cash in on … read more