The House of Representatives yesterday set up a committee to investigate alleged delay in the execution of repair works of the Port Harcourt International Airport, alleging possible sabotage by some airliners. Honourable George Ford Nwosu (PDP) Rivers State while proposing … read more
Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, has assured the diplomatic community in Nigeria that hostage-taking in the Niger Delta will soon become a thing of the past, especially with on-going peace initiatives by the Federal Government. Jonathan said this when he received … read more
OPERATIONS at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos are currently being hampered by a fault in the radar system. The Guardian learnt that the fault, which occurred last Friday, was caused by an electric power surge, which blew the screen … read more
At least nine people were killed in fighting between rival criminal gangs in Nigeria’s oil city of Port Harcourt, the state news agency reported on Monday. The nine, including a woman who was hit in her car by a stray … read more
Dutch Oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, yesterday announced the resumption of full scale oil exploration and production in Niger Delta region after the multi-national firm left area following spate of hostage taking of its staff and youth restiveness … read more
The main militants group in Nigeria’s oil producing Niger Delta say it will not extend its month-long ceasefire which expires on Tuesday. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend) says it has been kept on the sidelines … read more
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, on Sunday, disclosed that some workers of the American oil giant, Chevron Nigeria Limited, had been kidnapped by the Niger Delta militants at Okerenkoko, Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta state. Uduaghan … read more
Technical experts from the United States’ Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) arrived in the country yesterday to audit three domestic airlines, Arik Air, Virgin Nigeria and Bellview which had been designated to fly tthe Nigeria-US air route by the Federal Government. … read more
TWO Task Forces to tackle the issue of illegal structures and sanitation problems in three major cities in Delta State, have been set up by the state government. They are the Asaba Capital City Beautification and Sanitation Task Force and … read more
MILITANTS struck again in the early hours of yesterday in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital and kidnapped a Syrian, Mr. John Daher. Seven gunmen, according to the Rivers State Police Command Public Relations Officer, waylaid a Niger Delta Development … read more