SECURITY agencies in Bayelsa State have deployed military checkpoints on Yenagoa roads with a view to stopping the upsurge in the abduction of relations of government officials/legislators by ransom-demanding gunmen. The exchange of fire by rival gangs in neigbhouring Rivers … read more
As rampaging cultists continued their siege on Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, the Directorate of Defence Information has said that the military is capable of protecting the people of Niger Delta but has chosen not to use excessive force. The … read more
In its bid to reduce criminal activities in the Lagos metropolis, the Lagos State Police Command has impounded 553 motorcycles and arrested 1,134 suspects during routine raids. The motorcycles were impounded and their riders charged to court for failure to … read more
AFTER some top level talks between the Nigerian government and its United Kingdom counterpart, the Virgin Atlantic aircraft which was impounded on Wednesday after one of its crew members was arrested with cocaine, was released yesterday. The plane left with … read more
Gunmen kidnapped a British oil-industry worker as he traveled to work Friday in Nigeria’s southern oil region, where gunfire rang out across the main city for a fifth day. Britain, which has advised all its nationals to leave three southern … read more
Kidnappers in Nigeria’s oil heartland released a Bulgarian and a Briton after a month in captivity on Wednesday, but elsewhere in the anarchic region a deadly gang fight entered its third day. The two employees of British oil company Exprogroup … read more
Mike Hill, the Briton whose daughter, Margaret, was kidnapped by militants in July, is dead. Mr. Hill, who worked with Lonestar Drilling, a sub contractor to Shell Petroleum Development Corporation, had been scheduled to travel abroad for medical attention on … read more
Soldiers were yesterday drafted to the Rivers State Government House as the exchange of gunfire between rival cultists which has characterised daily life in Port Harcourt, the state capital, since Tuesday continued last night. The soldiers were seen in front … read more
Vice President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday made details of his assets declaration public. He put his total assets which he had earlier declared before the Code of Conduct Bureau at N295, 304, 420 million. The public declaration of the assets came … read more
Barely two weeks after the abduction of the mother of the Speaker of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, eleven Years old Son of the Deputy Chief Whip of the Assembly, Master Daniel Benjamin, was yesterday abducted in broad day … read more