TWENTY-FOUR hours to the inauguration of new political leadership at both the federal and state levels, Nigeria today is on tenterhooks. Police presence was beefed up across the cities yesterday ahead of the two-day sit-at-home protests declared by the civil … read more
The Nigerian Navy has deployed six patrol ships in the Niger Delta region to check the activities of militants operating in the area. The Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ganiyu Adekeye, disclosed this at the inauguration of the Nigerian … read more
African countries spend over $4 billion (about 512 billion) to import 150,000 expatriate professionals yearly. An administrator with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Mr. Kemal Dervis, while speaking on the effects of brain drain in Africa at the on-going … read more
We strongly recommend all Brits read the following and cross check with their employers, insurance companies etc on safety, security, liability and coverage. The Foreign Office today revised its travel advice for Nigeria. We are now advising against all travel … read more
The Vice-President and presidential candidate of the Action Congress in the April elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar will not be returning to the country before May 29. Speaking with Empowered Newswire during the week in the United States where he had … read more
In Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta, one area, Ogoniland in Rivers State, resists oil production. Residents there say oil companies refuse to meet their demands to redistribute wealth and protect the environment. VOA’s Nico Colombant reports. Young men walking along roads … read more
The stage appears set weekend for a showdown between the police and a coalition of Labour and Civil Society groups who have scheduled mass action and rallies for Tuesday. The action, to protest alleged fraud in the April elections, coincides … read more
The Department of Foreign Affairs said Sunday that no Filipino was among nine foreign oil workers abducted in Nigeria. Claro Cristobal, DFA spokesman, told abs-cbnNEWS.com in a text message that Philippine Ambassador to Nigeria Masaranga Umpa confirmed that according to … read more
THE commander of the Niger-Delta Freedom Fighters (NDFF), aka Egbema One, which kidnapped the four American oil workers of Global Industries, an oil servicing company to the Chevron Nigeria Limited on May 8 in Delta state spoke to Saturday Vanguard … read more
Gunmen on Friday seized a boatload of foreign oil workers, including three Americans, four Britons and a South African, in the latest violence to hit Nigeria’s southern petroleum-producing region, officials said. Nearly 200 foreign workers have been kidnapped in 18 … read more