Two children who were kidnapped in Nigeria’s oil hub Port Harcourt earlier this week have been released, police said Saturday “The children were released unhurt. I spoke to their father who confirmed the good news,” Rivers state police chief Felix … read more
For the first time since the controversy surrounding the redeployment of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Chairman, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu to NIPSS, the government of the United States has expressed its concern over the matter publicly, Empowered Newswire reports. Empowered … read more
President Umaru Yar�Adua on Saturday in Shanghai, China said the Federal Government would soon embark on the development of metro lines for some of Nigeria�s major cities The President also said that Nigeria would welcome Chinese technical assistance for the … read more
Amnesty International on Saturday called on Nigeria to allow two detained suspected separatist leaders to be allowed access to their lawyers and family. Henry Okah, suspected of being the spokesman for the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta … read more
Representatives of the major Niger Delta militant groups have failed to reach an agreement on ending violence and kidnappings in the region. The Voice of America reports that the groups failed to reach a consensus on who among them truly … read more
Fears that Lagos may be hit by fuel scarcity heightened on Friday as the Department of Petroleum Resources took a decision to recall all the contaminated fuel in circulation. Sources said the department, after a long meeting with the major … read more
Parents of two kidnapped toddlers have pleaded for the release of their children. Chimaraoke and Kelechi Okocha, aged two and one-and-half years respectively, were seized on Feb. 26, by unknown gunmen on their way to the University of Port Harcourt … read more
A female Nigerian politician badly beaten by a local MP is standing by the publication of a revealing photograph showing her injuries in a hospital bed. Habiba Garba told the BBC she wanted people to see the reality of violence … read more
The Defence Headquarters on Wednesday warned anyone contemplating to protest the affirmation of President Umaru Yar�Adua�s election by the Presidential Election Tribunal to have a rethink. It said the warning was necessitated by information that there were plots by some … read more
The visiting Managing Director of International Monetary Fund (IMF), Prof. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has advised Nigeria to strike a balance between maintaining a healthy foreign reserves and spending on infrastructural development. In an interview with THISDAY Board of Editors in Abuja … read more