The Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Awoye Aziza, flew into Port Harcourt on Monday afternoon to join his lieutenants in finding ways of securing the release of five Chinese who were taken hostage by militants in Port Harcourt last Friday. … read more
Oil workers have resolved to continue their suspended strike should government fail to urgently convene a stakeholders� summit to address security issues in the Niger Delta. President of National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), Comrade Peter Akpatason … read more
TWO naval personnel and an unspecified number of State Secret Service (SSS) operatives were reported kidnapped yesterday during a clash between suspected militants and men of the Joint Task Force (JTF) off an oil platform in Soku, Akuku-Toru Local Government … read more
As the security situation in the Niger Delta degenerates, foreigners in the region now go in groups to avoid being kidnapped by the daring militants. Findings by our correspondent in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, at the weekend, showed … read more
Tension mounted in Delta State on Sunday as the remains of two of the five soldiers and an employee of Shell Petroleum Development Company, murdered on Friday by irate youths in Ughelli, headquarters of Ughelli North Local Government Area of … read more
Kidnappers who are holding five Chinese telecom workers in Nigeria’s southern oil-producing Niger Delta have asked for a ransom, the chairperson of the local government area where the abduction took place said on Monday. Gunmen broke into the rented apartment … read more
President Olusegun Oba-sanjo yesterday morning directed the Nigerian Police and all other security agencies to clampdown heavily on anybody who may want to disrupt the conduct of this month’s general elections. In a message to Nigerians on the occasion of … read more
The world�s most powerful nation, the United States, has intervened in the on-going war between President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice President Atiku Abubakar, warning President Obasanjo to desist from alleged plans to arrest Abubakar when he returns to Nigeria next … read more
Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has expressed optimism that the repair work at the Port Harcourt International Airport will be completed by April. Speaking to newsmen at the conference centre of the Federal Aviation Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), the … read more
A Chinese rescue group arrived in Port Harcourt, the capital of Nigeria’s south state of Rivers, Saturday afternoon to seek release of five Chinese workers who were kidnapped Friday morning. The group, which arrived in the airport at about 4:30 … read more