The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said that it investigated former governor of Rivers State, Dr. Peter Odili, over allegations of official corruption and looting of state resources during his tenure and found him culpable. It said it … read more
Protesting Ijaw youths on Sunday stopped the repair works on the Escravos Lagos pipeline belonging to the Nigerian Gas Company, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. The latest development apparently truncated the inauguration of the strategic gas flow … read more
ELDERS and leaders of Obetim community in Ndokwa West Local Government Area of Delta State, have served a quit notice to youths involved in militant activities in the area, saying that anybody caught henceforth would be handed over to security … read more
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal yesterday summoned the European Union Observer Groups (EUOG), Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) and the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) over the April 21 election. Other bodies summoned by the Tribunal are African Independent Television (AIT), Channels … read more
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said he wants to “vastly expand and diversify” trade with Nigeria, Africa’s leading oil exporter. Mr Singh said the two countries wanted to form a “partnership for economic growth” during an address to a … read more
Workers in the country’s aviation sector have resolved to embark on a nationwide industrial action beginning from midnight October 21. This is to press home demands for the payment of terminal entitlements of the former staff of the liquidated Nigeria … read more
AFTER eight days in captivity, father of the Deputy Speaker in the Rivers State House of Assembly, Charles Nwile, has been released. The 70-year-old, Chief Lawrence Nwile, was released following the arrest of a suspect, Johnbull Robinson, last Friday and … read more
The Task Force on Beautification and Sanitation of Effurun and Warri, Delta State, has started demolishing illegal structures in the area. The Task Force, led by its Chairman, Prof. Chike Okolocha, began the exercise last week at the newspaper depot … read more
President Umaru Musa Yar�Adua yesterday held a crucial meeting with State Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senate President, Senator David Mark, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mrs. Patricia Olubunmi Etteh and theparty�s National … read more
Finance Minister, Dr. Shamsuddeen Usman, has expressed hope that crude oil production from the Niger Delta region would continue its recovery in the months ahead. An agency report quoted him at the weekend as saying that Royal Dutch Shell�s (RDSA) … read more