Explosions tore through two oil-company facilities in southern Nigeria on Monday, officials said, as militants pressed ahead with a yearlong campaign for greater regional control of oil funds in Africa’s largest producer of crude. Two separate private security contractors, speaking … read more
Today Monday, December 18, 2006, operatives of the movement for the emancipation of the niger delta (MEND) planted tthree car bombs in locations strategic to the oil industry in the niger delta. The operative in one location reported a concentration … read more
The four men, three Italians and one Lebanese, taken hostage December 7 in the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria will not be released for Christmas, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), which is holding them … read more
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders yesterday had a long deliberation on who will be the running mate of Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in next year’s presidential election. The names of Rivers State Governor, Dr. Peter Odili tops the list of … read more
Nigeria’s ruling party on Sunday chose a reclusive Muslim state governor, Umaru Yar’Adua, to be its candidate to succeed Olusegun Obasanjo as president of Africa’s most populous nation in elections next year. Yar’Adua, the 55-year-old governor of Katsina state, beat … read more
Sixteen-year-old Brandy Liggins stood anxiously with her six siblings around the flight-departure screen at a German airport, frantically searching for their connecting flight to Italy. Call it survivor’s instinct, but Brandy had a feeling they weren’t going to Italy to … read more
Gunmen invaded an oilfield control station in Nigeria’s Bayelsa state in the Niger Delta and are holding several people hostage, a company spokesman said on Friday. Following is a chronology of some major attacks on the Nigerian oil industry in … read more
Armed men susupected to be militant youths yestarday stormed the Choba branch of the united Bank for Africa and made away with undisclosed sums of money. The armed youths who were according to eyewitness accounts, very violent, did not aim … read more
The nation may soon witness a deadlier dimension in the Niger Delta struggle as the militants have threatened to introduce suicide bombers as a new way of enforcing their demands. The militants also plan to intensify kidnaps, expanding their dragnet … read more
Governor Peter Odili yesterday bowed out of the presidential race in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), 24 hours to the national convention of the party. The withdrawal, it as learnt, was on the instruction of President Olusegun Obasanjo. Yesterday, another … read more