Fears heightened on Sunday over the health condition of the 24 Filipinos allegedly being held by Ijaw militants in the creeks of Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State. Report available to our correspondent on Sunday indicated that … read more
The main militant group in Nigeria’s restive, oil-rich south said dozens of its heavily armed forces raided a prison Sunday and freed one of their leaders. Officials in the oil-industry center of Port Harcourt confirmed there was a prison break, … read more
THE Action Congress (AC), yesterday, warned of the imminent release of President Olusegun Obasanjo�s last joker against Vice-President Atiku Abubakar with a plot to stop him as the party�s presidential candidate through the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The party … read more
THERE were strong indications yesterday that Nigeria may soon be at the threshold of another round of health pandemic, following the discovery of Influenza Virus Type A (Avian Influenza) in samples obtained from some suspected human victims. An official of … read more
MEN of the State Security Service (SSS) in Delta State, yesterday, raided the Warri and its environs of a supposed militant, suspected to have been involved in the January 20 kidnap of the 24 Filipinos by the Movement for the … read more
THE Rivers State Governor, Peter Odili has called for the enhancement of the Nigerian Navy to enable it effectively deal with the growing spate of hostage taking and vandalisation of the nation’s oil facilities in the Niger Delta. Odili’s advice … read more
Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has alerted that President Olusegun Obasanjo is not ready to leave office in May this year. Speaking in the Housa service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) monitored in Kaduna yesterday, Atiku urged Nigerians to … read more
A Belgian man working for a building materials company has been murdered in the oil city of Warri, in Nigeria’s lawless Niger Delta, and two suspects have been arrested, police said on Sunday. The police commissioner of Delta state, where … read more
Fifty militants on Sunday fought a gunbattle with Nigerian security forces and torched police headquarters in Port Harcourt in the oil-producing Niger Delta to free one of their leaders. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said … read more
The Lagos State police command on Friday declared that it had put all necessary safety pre-cautions on ground to ensure a hitch- free flag off of the presidential campaign of the Peoples� Democratic Party in the state. The declaration was … read more