Even if the country�s three refineries work at full capacity, Nigeria will continue to import fuel because they can only meet 75 percent of the country�s petrol needs. The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporat-ion (NNPC), Engr. … read more
A Nigerian man who arrived in Ireland as an asylum seeker seven years ago has become the country’s first black mayor. Rotimi Adebari has been elected as first citizen of Portlaoise in County Laois. The 43-year-old fled from Nigeria in … read more
President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has congratulated the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown, over his assumption of office. He equally congratulated his predecessor, Tony Blair, for a successful tenure. The President, in a congratulatory letter called for … read more
IT may take the Federal Government sufficient demonstration of its commitment to the development of the Niger Delta before militants operating in the region can lay down arms. A dominant militant group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger … read more
COMMANDER of the Joint Task Force (JTF), �Operation Restore Hope� in the Niger-Delta, Brigadier-General Lawrence Ngubane, yesterday, responded to the threat by militants to launch a reprisal attack on his men over the June 21 killing of 15 militants who … read more
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria has said the contractors handling the rehabilitation of Port-Harcourt Airport will be back to site by next week. The General manager, Public Affairs, FAAN, Mr. Akin Olukunle, made the disclosure in a chat with … read more
Nigeria’s main opposition party, the ANPP, has said it will join the new government of President Umaru Yar’Adua. The deal comes after days of talks called by the president, whose April election victory was judged “not credible” by international observers. … read more
ANOTHER dimension has been introduced to the criminal act of hostage taking in Rivers State as a three-year-old son of a state lawmaker was abducted in Port Harcourt yesterday. Sources told The Guardian that the child, Master St. Michael Steward, … read more
CONTRARY to media reports, only three soldiers and two members of staff of Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC) were killed during a recent clash between troops and some militants at the company’s flow-station in Ogboinbiri, Bayelsa State, Brig-Gen. Lawrence Ngubane … read more
A Nigerian court has refused to allow more cases to be added to a lawsuit against a pharmaceutical giant accused of improper drugs trials on children. Pfizer lawyers argued in Abuja that the amendments had been improperly filed. The Nigerian … read more