A FEDERAL High Court in Port Harcourt, River State will tomorrow deliver judgement on the suit filed by the former governor of the state, Dr. Peter Odili, to prevent his arrest and prosecution by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission … read more
Royal Dutch Shell said on Monday it has lifted the force majeure on exports of Nigerian Bonny Light and Forcados crude. In January, the Anglo-Dutch oil major declared force majeure on Forcados export due to sabotage to a pipeline. A … read more
Nigeria�s strategic oil reserve, put at 36.2billion barrels, is expected to sustain her for the next 43 years, statistics have shown. The statistics also show that the nation has the lowest reserve life span among the members of the Organization … read more
Gunmen kidnapped two children belonging to a prominent former official in Nigeria’s oil city Port Harcourt on Tuesday, a military spokesman said. The children of former local government chairman Ephraim Nwuze — five-year-old Alwell and his eight-year-old sister Wisdom — … read more
Former head of state and presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) in the April 21, 2007 election, Major-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, has made good its threat to challenge the verdict of the Court of Appeal, Abuja, which had … read more
NEW measures have been introduced by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to check the scarcity of aviation fuel (JET-A1). Instead of leaving the importation of the product to marketers, the corporation has taken over the exercise. The Guardian learnt … read more
Former governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, and Udoamaka Okoronkwo, who are standing trial for alleged corruption before a Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna, have asked Justice Mohammed Lawal Shuaibu to disqualify himself from the trial for alleged … read more
The Joint Task Force of the Niger Delta on Sunday attributed the increasing cases of kidnapping in Port Harcourt to crackdown by its troops on illegal oil bunkering and sea piracy. The Spokesman of the JTF, Lt. Col. Sagir Musa … read more
Minister of Youth Development, Senator Akinlabi Olasunkanmi, has said immunity clause should not protect public officers against prosecution on criminal charges. Speaking during an interview with journalists in Ode-Omu, Osun State, on Saturday, Akinlabi said immunity clause was a sensitive … read more
Attackers armed with AK-47 rifles and dynamite blew up a police building on Bonny Island, an oil and gas export hub in Nigeria’s southern Niger Delta, security experts working for private companies said on Saturday The reports did not suggest … read more