Top naval officers and ratings serving in the Niger Delta converged on Warri, Delta State, on Tuesday for a two-day seminar on how to enhance security in the region. The security officers were also to discuss on the threat perception … read more
PALPABLE fears have gripped several state officials, as there are strong indications that tribunals sitting at various state capitals may overturn more governorship elections. The ruling of the Supreme Court last Thursday in Abuja, which removed Celestine Omehia as governor … read more
INDICATIONS are that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is in big trouble, as shown in its last Wednesday night’s meeting at the Villa, in Abuja. President Yar’Adua and Vice President Goodluck Jonathan as well as the party governors were … read more
Leader of Niger Delta People�s Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, on Friday, threatened to go back to the creeks if the federal government failed to address the agitation of the region. Asari, who spoke at the Niger Delta Investment and … read more
Landlords who say they are the original owners of Port Harcourt, have vowed to partner the Rivers State government to chase out the aborigines resident in all the waterfronts in the state capital. This is on the heels of the … read more
The embattled leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State Of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, was this morning granted a three-month bail by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. The MASSOB leader had been denied … read more
NEW governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi was sworn in yesterday evening amidst tight security, after he arrived Port Harcourt at exactly 5.30 pm to the waiting embrace of hundreds of supporters, who had thronged the Port Harcourt Air … read more
Nigeria’s Supreme Court has annulled April’s election of the governor of oil-rich, violence-prone Rivers State. The court said current Governor Celestine Omehia had not been the legitimate candidate of the governing People’s Democratic Party. It ruled that the post should … read more
Twenty one suspected armed robbers have in the last few days been killed while 47 were arrested by the police in Lagos State after exchanges of gunfire at different confrontations in the state. The police have also recovered 18 stolen … read more
A BABY whale measuring about 12 metres beached around 3.30 a.m. Wednesday on the Nigerian side of the Seme border town along the Nigeria-Benin Republic international corridor. While some of the crowd that thronged the scene went with nothing more … read more