Chevron Nigeria Limited has indicated interest in building an 800-megawatt power plant to be located in Lagos. The power plant, to be known as Agura IPP, will be owned 60 per cent by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and 40 … read more
The Federal Government has begun moves to frustrate the plan by the United States to establish a military base in the Gulf of Guinea. The oil-rich gulf is bordered by Nigeria, Angola, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Sao Tome and … read more
Hurricane appears to be sweeping through the Lagos underworld as police announced on Thursday that with new logistics support they have killed 16 armed robbers and arrested 780 suspected criminals this week. While briefing reporters at the State Command Headquarters, … read more
Disputes, mainly over money, between Nigerian politicians and criminals who helped them win elections in April are causing a surge in kidnappings, a top policeman said on Wednesday. He cited the case of nine local politicians being held hostage in … read more
Human rights advocates in Nigeria are voicing alarm about recent arrests of cross-dressing men and of women allegedly wearing ‘indecent’ clothes, saying the arrests could signal a deterioration of civil rights. In the mostly Muslim city of Bauchi in northern … read more
In a desperate bid to get money from their victim, militants who abducted the relation of the Rivers State Chairman of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association have backed down on their initial demand for N10m ransom. Our correspondent on Wednesday … read more
PORT HARCOURT � RESIDENTS of Ogbogoro Community, Obio/Akpor Council, Rivers State now live in fear following death threats allegedly received by seven chiefs, elders and community leaders from runaway cult leader, Nna Dede, also known as Master and his group. … read more
SOME youths suspected to be militants, who allegedly made the victory of Honourable Yousuo Amalanyo, a member of Bayelsa State House of Assembly a reality in the last general election, have kidnapped his mother, Mrs. Laura Canus, and demanded a … read more
The Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro, on Monday met with the chief security officers of all the embassies in the country. The meeting came barely four days after the United States warned that Nigeria risked being attacked by … read more
The presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), General Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday told the presidential election petition tribunal that former President Olusegun Obasanjo imported 80,000 rifles to rig the April 21 elections in favour of President Umaru … read more