Four Nigerian villagers and an environmental group are demanding oil company Shell take responsibility for damage from oil leaks caused by its Nigerian subsidiary, lawyers said Wednesday. The letters sent to Royal Dutch Shell PLC accuse the company of negligence … read more
An unknown group of gunmen on Tuesday night seized a Chevron oil supply vessel, Lourdes Tide, with 11 crew on board. Among the crew aboard the vessel were Ukrainian and a Portuguese. The rest were said to be Nigerians. It … read more
Activities of petrol pipeline vandals have resulted in the country loosing a whopping N150.5bn in revenue in eight years According to a report by the Petroleum Product Marketing Company, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, 12,770 cases of … read more
The House of Represent-atives may not ratify the Green Tree Agreement between Nigeria and Cameroon signed by former president Olusegun Obasanjo ceding the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon. But the head of Nigerian delegation on the Cameroon-Nigerian Joint Commission on Bakassi, … read more
The police high command has deployed anti-terrorist squads in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt and Kano Although police sources told our correspondents on Tuesday that the action was aimed at checking violent crimes in the cities, a top security source in … read more
Senators have now washed their hands off the travails of their colleague, Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, in her case with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over her involvement in the N300 million scam in the Health Ministry. They acknowledged on … read more
Pilots flying Nigeria�s air space are navigating blindly because of the short-distance coverage by radars being used in the country�s airports, Managing Director of the Nigeria Communications Satellite (NIGCOMSAT) Engr. T. Ahmad-Rufai said yesterday. Rufai said immediately after pilots take … read more
Following the Federal High Court judgment last year, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has appointed a Lagos based real estate firm, Real Estate Derivatives Limited, to sell the forfeited properties of former Bayelsa State Governor, Chief DSP Alamieyeseigha. … read more
Youth restiveness in the Niger Delta region of the country has continued to impact negatively on the economy dragging crude oil output to 1.18 million barrels per day (mbd). Economic indicators from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) indicate that … read more
Unidentified gunmen in Nigeria’s restive south have hijacked an oil-services vessel carrying 11 crew members, the military said Wednesday. The hijackers are demanding about $250,000 for the release of the boat and the crew, including one Portuguese and one Ukrainian, … read more