Author Archives: Chief Oyibo

Crew boat attacked – Bonny

We are receiving confirmed reports that a Hyundai crew boat was attacked this evening at approx 19:00hrs. The vessel was carrying both expatriates and Nigerians – including Navy personnel We are still trying to confirm nationalities, injuries, fatalities and casualties. … read more

Airlines protest NCAA sanctions on weather

THE Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has penalised some domestic carriers for allegedly violating real weather minima before take-off at some airports. Harmattan haze currently blows across the country, causing poor visibility and health hazards. The airlines penalised to the … read more

Nigeria will hold free polls, govt assures U.S.

A FEDERAL Government delegation to the United States (U.S.) has presented the government’s side of the feud between President Olusegun Obasanjo and his deputy, Atiku Abubakar, to the country’s influential Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). The interaction between the government’s … read more

Hostages keeping well

The three Italian and one Lebanese hostage held by an armed separatist group since December 7 in the Niger delta region of southern Nigeria are “well”, according to their captors, but no progress has been made in negotiating their release. … read more

Four chiefs killed in Nigeria’s oil delta

Unknown gunmen killed four community chiefs in a remote part of Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta, kidnapping eight others who were travelling in the same boat, police said on Monday. A police spokeswoman in Port Harcourt, the delta’s main city, said … read more

Atiku: Why Obasanjo made U-turn

FRESH facts emerged on Saturday on why President Olusegun Obasanjo restored the privileges of Vice-President Atiku Abubakar shortly before the Court of Appeal affirmed on Friday in Abuja that Atiku remained the vice-president. Sunday Punch learnt that the Presidency had … read more