The National Executive Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the leadership of the Trade Union Congress will meet on Monday (today) to decide whether or not to commence a nationwide strike on Wednesday. The President of the National Union … read more
Crack detectives from the police and intelligence unit of the Joint Task Force (JTF) code-named �Operation Restore Hope� are closing in on the armed gang that abducted four workers – three Indians and a Pole – in Sapele, Delta State, … read more
IT was wild jubilation in most parts of Rivers State Thursday when news of the conditional release of the leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujaheed Asari Dokubo, by an Abuja High Court filtered into the state. … read more
Hundreds of angry villagers chased workers away from an oil-transfer facility Monday in restive southern Nigeria and occupied the premises in hopes of forcing payment from the oil industry, officials said. Elsewhere in the Niger Delta, gunmen were holding some … read more
NIGER Delta youths, particularly from the Ijaw extraction, brought Port Harcourt to a standstill for over four hours yesterday, as they came out in their thousands to welcome the leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Mujahid Dokubo-Asari. … read more
Recently released leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NPVF), Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo yesterday arrived Air Force Base, Port Harcourt with a promise to do everything in his powers to end kidnapping and hostage taking in the region. … read more
Security was on Saturday tightened around strategic oil installations in the Niger Delta region ahead of the strike action planned by the Nigerian Labour Congress and the oil workers� unions. The workers are pressing for the reversal of some decisions … read more
FOLLOWING Thursday’s release of Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo by an Abuja High Court, militants in the Niger Delta have announced a complete ceasation of hostilities in the area. In an online statement yesterday signed by one Cynthia Whyte, the militants … read more
Gunmen attacked an oilfield on Sunday in Nigeria’s southern Bayelsa State being guarded by soldiers after nine militants were killed by the army in the same area recently, an official said. “The fighting is still raging in the afternoon,” a … read more
Gunmen kidnapped two Lebanese construction workers in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta on Friday, a military spokesman said. The two men, who work for Italian firm Stabilini, were snatched in Delta state in the western part of the anarchic wetlands region. … read more