GLO Mobile has again been rated the best GSM operator in the country by a new audit of mobile telephone service providers in Nigeria . A summary of Network Audit for Lagos State in June published in August-September 2006 edition … read more
A corruption investigation in Washington has roiled Nigeria, leaving the top two leaders publicly trading allegations. Nigeria’s president says his estranged vice president is implicated in the bribery case against a U.S. legislator, and the vice president has responded with … read more
US multi-billionaire Bill Gates promised to assist Nigeria in fighting HIV/Aids in talks with President Olusegun Obasanjo, official News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported on Sunday. During the meeting in Obasanjo’s southwestern Ota farm on Saturday, the president discussed the … read more
Abia State Government has appealed to the Federal Government to implement the findings of the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) Oil Wells Verification Committee by paying to the state, full revenue from the 53 oil wells located in … read more
Rising hostilities bet-ween soldiers of the Joint Military Task Force and militants in the Niger Delta has forced Shell to shut in another 9,000 barrel per day of oil production. The closure of the Ekulama 1 flow station east of … read more
Militants yesterday raised an alarm that the military in the Niger Delta has commenced retaliatory attacks on Ijaw settlements over the killing of about 14 soldiers in two separate clashes as they allegedly attacked Elem-Sangana near Soku in Rivers State … read more
Another day of diplomatic efforts to secure the release of four British oil workers held captive in Nigeria are continuing today. The men were among seven overseas workers abducted in an attack on a residential compound in the country’s Akwa … read more
Nigeria’s troubled oil-rich Niger Delta has witnessed an upsurge in violence, with fighting between militants and Nigerian troops, in which militants claim at least a dozen soldiers were killed. The government’s handling of the crisis has come in for some … read more
THE Nigerian Army has described as untrue the claim by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) that its members killed over 10 soldiers in two separate attacks in the Niger Delta on Wednesday. But in a … read more
ATTEMPTS were being made last night to secure the release of four Scottish oil workers kidnapped at gunpoint in Nigeria, as the Foreign Office confirmed that the men were still alive. Nigerian government officials have made contact with the men … read more