FRESH crisis is looming in Warri, following the threat weekend, by the Ijaw residing in the Ogbe Ijoh area, to resist planned demolition of their properties. They accused the state Commissioner for Inter-Ethnic and Conflict Resolution, Mr. Ovuozorie Macaulay, of … read more
The current face-off between President Olu-segun Obasanjo and Vice President Atiku Abubakar was further stoked yesterday by anti-Atiku protesters who numbering about 400 barricaded the gate and prevented the number two citizen from entering the Presidential Lounge of the Murtala … read more
THE development of the Niger Delta should henceforth be a top priority to the Federal Government, according to a cross section of Nigerians surveyed in the Guardian Opinion Poll, GOP. A large percentage of the polled citizens want the government … read more
THE Ijaw leadership has petitioned the presidency, demanding the creation of two more additional states in the region and the practice of true federalism or confederation. President of the Ijaw National Congress (INC), Professor Kimse Okoko, said though the Ijaw … read more
Prisons in Nigeria are notorious, with many of the country’s 40,000 inmates crammed into massively overcrowded, dilapidated cells in old prisons. The most shocking statistic is that some two thirds of all the prisoners in Nigeria have not been convicted. … read more
CAN you believe that some of the expatriates who work as experts for the multinational oil corporations operating in the Niger Delta are artisans from places like Egypt and Thailand? This was the question asked by one of the Niger … read more
Barely a week after President Olusegun Obasanjo held a meeting with stakeholders in the Niger Delta region, the Movement for the Emancipation of the peoples of the Niger Delta, (MEND) has given fresh ultimatum to the foreigners in the region. … read more
(Reuters) – Militants whose attacks have shut a quarter of Nigerian oil output threatened on Friday to execute anyone found on previously attacked oil platforms operated by Royal Dutch Shell . The threat came as the oil giant said it … read more
A series of meetings to put an end to the attack on President Olusegun Obasanjo and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) by Vice President Atiku Abubakar were held yesterday by the party’s leadership at the zonal and national levels. The … read more
Nigeria�s president and vice- president have called for each other�s resignation in what is seen by diplomats as a significant threat to stability in the world�s eighth largest oil exporter. A statement from the office of Atiku Abubakar, Nigeria�s vice-president, … read more