Delta State has dismissed claims that the boundary dispute with Ondo State over oil wells has been resolved, and has vowed not to concede any of its oil wells to its neighbours. The Commissioner for Lands, Survey and Urban Development, … read more
THE move by the Lagos State Government to rid Lagos of street trading and bring sanity to the metropolis is a step in the right direction. The painful reality is that hawkers have turned the city’s major highways into markets. … read more
Angry villagers who took over three Shell oil installations in Nigeria’s troubled southern delta region vacated the facilities Tuesday after a six-day occupation, a community spokesman said. Elsewhere, however, a group of villagers who occupied a facility run by the … read more
Nigerian photojournalist Abayomi Adeshida, 35, describes what he saw at the crash site of the ADC airlines which came down in a storm shortly after taking off from the capital, Abuja. I got to the site at about 1430 local … read more
FEDERATED Niger Delta Ijaw Communities (FNDIC) and other militant groups in the region, weekend, rolled out four conditions under which the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) will be allowed by the Ijaw to resume operations in the creeks of Delta … read more
RESURGENCE of ethnic militia activities in the Niger Delta has been viewed as an economic and humanitarian tragedy. A research fellow of the Centre for Advance Social Studies, Dr Sofiri Peterside who spoke weekend at a seminar organised by the … read more
Officials of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) would arrive Ogoniland today for a five-day exploration of the environmental situation of the area. The visit of UNEP is in response to earlier invitation extended to the organisation by President Olusegun … read more
Barely one year after the nation lost over 200 persons in two fatal air disasters, Nigeria yesterday witnessed another air tragedy in which an ADC Airline Boeing 737 aircraft crashed five minutes after taking off from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International … read more
Paul Smith has vowed never to go back. After 18 days as a hostage in Nigeria – during which time his wife Paula was told he was dead – he is quitting the African oil producer. The brutish treatment of … read more
Nigeria has revoked the license of the company whose commercial airliner crashed the day before leaving 96 dead, the country’s third major civilian air catastrophe in little over a year. Among those killed Sunday were the country’s top Islamic cleric, … read more