For the second time since 1999, the rumoured death of a PDP�s presidential candidate gripped the nation causing serious concern. First, it was President Obasanjo, then as president elect, after his victory on February 27th 1999 was rumoured to have … read more
(Reuters) – A Lebanese man who was abducted on Feb. 28 in Nigeria’s southern oil-producing Niger Delta was freed three days later, police said on Thursday without giving any details on the terms of his release. A friend of the … read more
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential running mate and Bayelsa Governor, Goodluck Jonathan, has suggested urgent industrialisation as a means of stemming the tide of hostage- taking in Niger Delta. Jonathan said this yesterday in Abeokuta, during electioneering campaign before the … read more
Members of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), yesterday accused some officers of the Nigeria Police of complicity in pipeline vandalisation in the Eastern part of the country. Addressing newsmen in Enugu, yesterday, Port Harcopurt Zonal … read more
THE Atiku Campaign Organisation has alleged that the Federal Government has been intimidating commercial airlines to deny Vice President Atiku Abubakar and the Action Congress (AC) the use of their aircraft for campaign-related trips. According to a press statement by … read more
THE United States government has expressed dissatisfaction with the ongoing political party process in Nigeria, particularly the seeming zero-tolerance of the federal executive to opposition groups. The President George W. Bush administration is also worried by the procedure through which … read more
Information revealed that Mr Wilson Halera, a Fillipino that was kidnapped along Owerri Airport on 6 Feb 07 has been rescued by soldiers at Buguma on 7 Mar 07 at about 8:30pm. He was said to have been moved immediately … read more
A Filipino engineer kidnapped in Nigeria has been released by his captors but a Filipina earlier reported to have been abducted had apparently left the African country and was now back in the country but has remained missing, the Department … read more
Nigeria’s ruling party presidential contender, Umaru Yar’Adua, 55, says he is well enough to run in April’s polls. Speaking to the BBC from Germany, where he was flown for a medical check-up, he scotched speculation that he was unfit to … read more
Arik Air on Wednesday denied that its Fokker 50 aircraft was grounded for violating Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority regulations. According to a statement by the airline�s Head of Corporate Communications, Mr. Gbemiga Ogunleye, the Aircraft in question was a replacement … read more