The Federal Government yesterday announced the revocation of the sale of national telecoms carrier NITEL and its mobile arm M-tel to the Transnational Corporation. Also, the government has ordered investigations into the management contract of NITEL/M-tel by Dutch telecoms firm … read more
Detectives from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Oyo State Police Command have discovered an illegal detention camp in Ibadan. At the camp, allegedly being run by an Islamic cleric Alfa Ganiyu Imoniyi Olaniyi, detainees were subjected to series … read more
Years after the search for petroleum deposits in the North appeared to have been jettisoned, a new effort is on to explore gas resources believed to be abundant in the area. There are indications that a bright ray of light … read more
FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo says he can only be removed as chairman, Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with strict adherence to the party constitution. Obasanjo, who has been in the eye of the storm over the … read more
A prominent Niger Delta militant leader, Henry Okah, has been extradited from Angola to Nigeria, according to officials in Angola. A founder of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend), he was arrested in Angola five months … read more
The trial of 18 men accused of dressing up as women has started in a Sharia court in northern Nigeria. The men were arrested last year in a hotel room in the city of Bauchi. Prosecutors read out a letter … read more
Nigeria’s plan to release $4 billion of its oil savings to the federal and state governments between now and June is unconstitutional and the payment must be in naira, the presidency said on Friday. The central bank and the finance … read more
The 250,000 barrels of crude oil produced by Total/Elf Oil Company is under threat following a standoff between the company and its over 2,000 employees The workers, under the aegies of National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) … read more
BETWEEN 2006 and 2007, Nigeria lost about N53.8 billion to petroleum pipeline vandalisation, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said. In a presentation to the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Down Stream) yesterday at the National Assembly, NNPC Managing Director, Abubakar … read more
AS 28 nations gather in New York, United States, to discuss the unwholesome influx of arms which has fuelled conflicts and poverty in Africa and other third world countries, the impact of the problem on the ongoing militancy in the … read more