(MarketWatch) — Nigeria’s Oil Minister Edmund Daukoru said Monday Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA) has told him it will take around a month to bring back most of the country’s shut-in oil production. Daukoru, who is also the president of … read more
IJAW leader, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark ,was literally belching fire, last Wednesday, when he played host to Sunday Vanguard at his Kiagbodo country home in Delta State. “It�s because it’s you (Vanguard) that I am opening up in this way. … read more
The National Intellig-ence Agency (NIA) has commenced a full-fledged screening of all the security personnel employed at the nation’s airports by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) as part of overall measures to put the security of airport users … read more
More naval patrols in Nigeria’s southern delta region have failed to persuade oil company Royal Dutch Shell to return to its abandoned oilfields as militants continue to clash sporadically with troops, oil industry and military officials said on Sunday. About … read more
Niger Delta militants seeking greater regional control of oil resources said a former commissioner in Bayelsa state is the only person authorised to negotiate on their behalf. The militants also said they would continue attacks on oil and gas facilities … read more
More and more Nigerians demand for establishment of a Marshall Plan for the development of the Niger Delta region, as a way out of the cycle of violence that has enveloped the area. On Monday, March 27, the remaining three … read more
Hundreds of rampaging youths yesterday went rioting atthe Area 1 office of the National Population Commission (NPC) in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The Protesters who claimed they were ad hoc staff protesting the non-payment of their census allowance by … read more
GENERAL. Charles Taylor deported to Sierra Leone. On the 27th of March 2006 Liberia’s new leader said she wants her predecessor sent directly to the UN-backed war crimes court in Sierra Leone and does not want him in Liberia. But … read more
At about 1000 40 men (estimation) from Ogu-Ikpokiri Community beached with four speed boats at WACT/FOT area. Some of them were armed, shooting in the sky to dispatch Prodeco/Trevi workers, claming that they wanted their share of labor contract. Navy … read more
The British High Commission announces that new visa application procedures will be introduced in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Ibadan, Enugu, Benin City and Warri on Friday 31 March. This is part of an important series of improvements to the UK visa … read more