THE Federal Government has evolved fresh measures to curb the excesses of local and foreign racketeers in the oil industry. In collaboration with a British university, the government has developed a fingerprinting device to identify crude oil from official sources … read more
Nearly three months after its operations were disrupted by sustained militants� attacks, the Indorama-managed Eleme Petrochemical Ltd., on Saturday resumed production at the plant, assuring of better services. But unlike before, the workforce and the company�s premises are now under … read more
The British High Commissioner in Nigeria, Mr. Richard Gozney, on Friday said that only 8,000 out of 28,000 Nigerians that applied to study in the United Kingdom in 2006 were successful. Gozney, who was on a visit to the Minister … read more
Flash floods sweeping Nigeria’s biggest city, Lagos, have forced thousands of families from their homes, residents and witnesses said. The flooding in the Ikorodu district of Nigeria’s commercial capital follows days of heavy rain, which caused a nearby river to … read more
EXCEPT the precarious security situation in the Rivers, Bayelsa and Delta States improves substantially within the next six months, there may be no expatriates working and resident in these states. This follows reported plans by oil companies and allied industries … read more
Pfizer has asked a Nigerian court to disregard an experts’ report into drug tests it conducted on Nigerian children in 1996 and which are now the subject of four court cases, the company said on Friday. The Nigerian federal government … read more
The Commissioner of Police, Oyo State command, Mr. Udom Ekpoudom, has withdrawn all policemen attached to influential individuals in the state due to the upsurge in robbery incidents and other crimes in Ibadan, the state capital. Similarly, police personnel earlier … read more
The Nigeria Labour Congress at the weekend said the ‘plea bargain’ between former Bayelsa State Governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was not an acceptable alternative to a formal conviction of the culprit. Speaking in … read more
Militants late on Thursday freed 70-year-old Madam Hansel Seibarugu, mother of the Speaker of the Bayelsa House of Assembly, after eleven days in captivity. Mama Yenagoa as she is fondly called was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen who invaded her Akaibiri … read more
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, are to get a total of N19.5 million as severance pay as soon as the National Assembly ratifies the payment of severance allowance to former public office-holders. Documents exclusively obtained … read more