Hundreds of toddlers and children on Sunday took to the streets in Port Harcourt to protest incessant kidnapping of underaged persons in Rivers State. The children, who were accompanied by some adults, marched through some major streets in the city … read more
President Umaru Musa Yar�Adua yesterday visited Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State in what is his first visit to the Niger Delta region since he was sworn in as president of the federal republic. He used the occasion to warn … read more
AMIDST growing public anxiety, the Nigerian Navy on Friday in Abuja gave an insight into the spate of kidnappings and hostage takings in the Niger Delta. The Navy Headquarters said some militants resorted to such criminal activities because they could … read more
Following recent in-cessant attacks on its production facilities and widespread theft of its crude oil and condensate, especially in the volatile Niger Delta region, the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has described the situation as precarious and �an impending disaster … read more
Again, a staff of an oil company, Mr. Goodday Joseph and a toddler, Tonye George were kidnapped in Port Harcourt and Okrika, at the weekend. Meanwhile the whereabouts of Mrs. Fedelia Chioma, mother of the Leader of the Rivers State … read more
The United States government has refrained from being drawn into the issue of whether former President Jimmy Carter should intervene in the Niger Delta, preferring to allow the Nigerian government deal with its domestic affairs. The Movement for the Emancipation … read more
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro, on Friday, warned that the al-Qaeda terrorist network was planning to bomb some parts of Nigeria. Okiro, who did not give the locations which the group led by the world�s most wanted man, … read more
Shell says it requires an additional $3 billion (N375 billion) and the resolution of the Niger Delta crisis to be able to end gas flaring in the country, insisting that it will be unable to meet the December 2008 deadline … read more
US anti-bribery investigators are targeting a former Halliburton subsidiary over its work on a key Royal Dutch Shell project in Nigeria, widening a corruption probe into the country’s troubled oil industry. The US investigation into Halliburton’s Nigerian operations – covering … read more
Kidnappers have released three employees of a Chinese construction firm in Nigeria, China’s foreign ministry said on Saturday, two days after they were abducted following a dispute over wages and working conditions. The brief statement on the foreign ministry website … read more