Fresh tension has gripped communities in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State as the operatives of the Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta combed the area in search of their missing rifles. Findings by our correspondent on … read more
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, (MEND) has warned oil companies working along the coastal region of Nigeria to be ready for war, just as it said the military was not in a position to protect them. MEND … read more
A Former Governor of Rivers State, Dr. Peter Odili, was last Wednesday quizzed by the State Security Service over alleged threats to security in the state. Investigations by our correspondent revealed that Odili arrived the SSS headquarters in Abuja at … read more
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Saturday said that it was intensifying its manhunt for Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello who has been on the run since last Wednesday. It said that the embattled senator could not run forever, adding that … read more
The Federal Government has pencilled in a former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Kofi Annan, to chair the proposed Niger Delta summit. Already, the Presidency has contacted the international diplomat for the assignment. Sunday Punch gathered that the Vice-President, … read more
President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is due back to the country on Tuesday having completed his treatment of an undisclosed ailment at a Wiesbaden Hospital in Germany. He left Nigeria last Monday after assenting to this year�s Appropriation Act at the … read more
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has claimed that its fighters on Thursday destroyed a major pipeline belonging to Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) at Adamakiri in Rivers State. According to an online … read more
MILITANTS who attacked the Dibi- and Olero Flow Stations in Delta State on Wednesday seized an unspecified number of weapons from the men of the Joint Task Force (JTF) on the Niger-Delta and the delay by the miliant group, identified … read more
AS the cat and mouse game between the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello continues, her colleagues at the Lower Chamber of the National Assembly has asked her to surrender to the anti-graft agency. The House … read more
Oil prices crossed $117 a barrel for the first time after a militant group in Nigeria said it had attacked a Royal Dutch Shell-operated pipeline. Confirmation that production had been hit revived US sweet, light crude, which had fallen more … read more