PREPARATIONS towards ensuring peaceful elections may have begun as the Nigeria Police are deploying about 200,000 officer for the exercise, Inspector General of Police Mr. Sunday Ehindero, has disclosed. The Police chief stated yesterday in Abuja that the decision to … read more
Vice President Atiku Abubakar says that the April general elections would not hold if the Federal Government stops him from contesting the presidential polls. Speaking in Lokoja, Kogi State, on Thursday, in continuation of his campaign, Atiku said: “We are … read more
A militant group calling itself the Niger Delta Gorillas, a purported arm of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has written an e-mail to most of the major oil and gas companies, asking them to withdraw … read more
Seven people were shot dead Friday and 10 others were seriously wounded when gunmen opened fire in a crowded district of Nigeria’s oil capital Port Harcourt, the police said. The unidentified gunmen entered the city aboard two buses, and blocked … read more
Gunmen kidnapped a Lebanese worker Wednesday in Nigeria’s restive southern oil region, the latest in a string of attacks across the increasingly lawless area, police said. The man, whose name was not released, was working on a construction project in … read more
The Action Congress has threatened that there would not be election in Nigeria if the Independent National Electoral Commission went ahead to disqualify its presidential candidate, Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, from contesting the April election. The party, in a statement by … read more
Nigeria�s flag carrier, Virgin Nigeria, has been voted Airline of the year. The honour was bestowed on the airline at the 12th annual ThisDay awards which was held at MUSON centre, Onikan, Lagos. Virgin Nigeria beat the other three competing … read more
Six Nigerian human rights groups on Wednesday served a notice of intent to carry out an independent assessment of the performance of local government councils in Rivers State . The groups met with the State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Magnus … read more
Dow Jones)- There is a 30% chance that the ongoing legal maneuvers between Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Nigeria’s electoral commission may lead to a delay of the country’s April presidential elections, an analyst at the Eurasia Group said Tuesday. … read more
The re-designed naira notes and coins are to go into circulation as from Wednesday (today) following the formal inauguration by President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abuja.. L-R: Managing Editor, Emerging Markets, Mr. Will Goodhart, Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof. Charles … read more