The British Government is to return to Nigeria �16,598,000 remaining part of the looted funds of the former governors of Bayelesa and Plateau states, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha and Joshua Dariye, when the funds are freed by the Britsh court. A statement … read more
Security operatives in Rivers State said on Tuesday that they had located the hideout of the kidnappers holding Mares Divine Emeruwa, the five-year-old son of a Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) employee. A source at the State Security Service (SSS) … read more
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC ) has concluded plans to arraign no fewer than six former governors in court for allegedly corruptly enriching themselves while in office. Making the revelation on Tuesday was the chairman of the … read more
TWO children, Fransisca Ehileme, aged six and her five-year-old brother, Francis, both children of an oil worker, were on Monday abducted by gunmen on their way to school around Rumuigbo junction in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. Security sources … read more
Nigerian-American Niger Delta activist, Dr (Mrs.) Judith Asuni, who is under trial with three others on allegations of espionage, will know her fate today as the Federal High Court, Abuja, gives a ruling on her application for bail. Justice Binta … read more
Four persons, including a policeman, were feared killed in two separate bank robbery attempts in Lagos on Monday. Besides, another policeman and a few other civilians who sustained gunshot injuries during the attacks have been hospitalised. The first attack happened … read more
Firstly, we want to dissociate ourselves from the statement purported to have been issued from MEND and signed by one Don Pedro regarding the current attack on the Shell EA fields. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta … read more
Heavily armed gunmen in speedboats kidnapped seven workers, including three foreigners, from an offshore Nigerian oilfield in a major setback to peace in the Niger Delta. The raid on Saturday night was the first big attack on an oil facility … read more
The trial by Pfizer Pharmaceutical Company of oral Trovalfloxacin (Trovan) in Kano between April 3 and 8, 1996 during the outbreak of severe meningitis in Nigeria was illegal. This verdict is contained in the report of an Investigation Committee set … read more
Political associates of the embattled former governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, met on Sunday to devise fresh strategies to help him out of his present predicament. The state Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, led his deputy, Prof. Amos Utuama, … read more