PH Convoy Attack January 15, 2008. MEND Freelance Freedom Fighters; volunteers answering our call to fight against injustice and oppression in the Niger Delta carried out the attack on the convoy of a General Manager with the Nigeria Ports Authority … read more
Nigeria is to earn N16.912 billion daily from oil sales under the budget agreement deal worked out between the National Assembly and the presidency it emerged yesterday. The daily oil revenue amounting to N6.189 trillion over the year was arrived … read more
AFTER spirited arguments in favour and against the bail application by former Delta State Governor, Chief James Ibori, standing trial for corruption and money-laundering, the Federal High Court, Kaduna, yesterday adjourned further hearing to January 31. The dramatic court session … read more
President Umaru Yar�Adua on Tuesday accused multinational firms of being the biggest contributors to corruption in Nigeria, then braced himself for a bigger battle against it. He solicited the assistance of the World Bank to check such companies when he … read more
The most prominent armed group in southern Nigeria has claimed responsibility for a dynamite attack Monday night on the convoy of a port authority official in Nigeria’s oil hub city Port Harcourt. “Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta … read more
Royal Dutch Shell has declared a force majeure on crude shipments from its Forcados export terminal in Nigeria after sabotage to a pipeline last week, the company said on Monday. The sabotage on two pipelines between the land-based Forcados terminal … read more
President Umaru Musa Yar�Adua has lifted the ban on the importation of bagged cement into the country. The lifting of the ban, according to the government, is with a view to bridging the deficit of 11.5 million tonnes in the … read more
Niger Delta militants attacked an oil service vessel on Bonny River in the Niger Delta on Monday, Rivers State Commissioner of Police Felix Ogbaudu said. He told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that the vessel was heading toward the Mystras oil platform … read more
THERE have been startling revelations about how army officers sold weapons to militant groups in the Niger Delta. According to investigations, thousands of AK-47 rifles, General Purpose Machine guns (GPMGs) and ammunition are said to be missing from the Nigerian … read more
(Reuters) – Danish shipping and oil group A.P. Moller-Maersk suspended all shipping to a major oil industry port in Nigeria, the company said on Monday, after militants shot at six vessels nearby last week. Onne port is not an oil … read more