Nigeria’s military said Monday it has seized a ship laden with 5,000 tonnes of stolen oil and 30 barges amid rising cases of crude theft in one of the world’s main oil producing regions. The spokesman of the Joint Task … read more
The Medium Term Expenditure Framework, submitted to the Senate on October 4, says the removal of fuel subsidies would save the country over $800 billion. Supporting the push for an end to fuel subsidy, Special Adviser to the President on … read more
The American Occupy movement started on September 17, 2011, with a few dozen demonstrators who attempted to pitch tents in front of the New York Stock Exchange. The group is protesting social and economic inequality caused by corporate greed, and … read more
The United Nations Security Council on Monday condemned piracy in the Gulf of Guinea off the West African coast and backed regional plans to tackle the growing problem. This year, piracy in the region has escalated from low-level armed robberies … read more
MOSOP says it is a foreign legal adventure, which has no backing in Ogoniland. The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP says the lawsuit by Ogale villagers in Ogoniland against the Royal Dutch/Shell is a foreign legal adventure … read more
Vice Admiral Ola Ibrahim, the Nigeria Chief of Naval Staff, has said that African Navy needed to cooperate to curb the activities of sea pirates in the continental coastal water. The Naval chief told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) … read more
The maze of shacks on stilts stretch out across the filthy water’s surface, canoes colliding as they hustle between them in a slum that serves as a warning for the world’s fastest growing continent. Tens of thousands of people live … read more
Shell Petroleum Development Co. of Nigeria Ltd. has awarded a contract for line pipes worth over NGN7.8 billion ($47 million) to SCC Nigeria Ltd., a Shell spokesman said Monday. Tony Okonedo, Shell’s Corporate Media Relations Manager, said in a statement … read more
The Police in FCT say 13,000 officers will be deployed to prevent crimes during and after the Eld-el-Kabir celebration. Mr Michael Zuokmor, the Commissioner of Police in the FCT, said this on Friday while parading suspected armed robbers and vandals … read more
Nigeria said it had been losing 28 billion naira annually on pensions for non-existent government ‘ghost workers’, a further sign of the impact corruption has on sub-Saharan Africa’s second-largest economy. New Finance Minister and Coordinator of the Economy Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala … read more