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
A Dutch oil worker and a Nigerian serviceman were killed on Tuesday when armed men attacked a small ferry near the Bonny Island oil and gas export complex, industry sources said. There were conflicting early reports of the attack on … read more
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
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
Minister of State for Defence, Chief Michael Onolememen, said weekend, that insecurity situation in the Niger Delta region is worrisome, and is making the Federal Government very uncomfortable . He said the push for peace in the region is to … read more
THE Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mr. Funsho Kupolokun, said on Sunday that the scarcity of Petroleum Products in the country would get worse following a fresh pipeline vandalisation that occured in the earily hours of Saturday. … read more
Ogoni youths have given the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria certain conditions to fulfil as a means of eliminating frequent fire outbreaks on the company�s facilities in the area. The conditions are the raising of a surveillance team to … read more
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
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
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