Forty-seven people have made the final cut as prospective jurors in the trial of a man who is charged with a failed terrorist attack on a Detroit-bound plane. All were told to report to federal court Thursday. There are 32 … read more
Nigeria’s federal government has fired the chief executive officers of three key aviation parastatals as part of its ‘transformation agenda’. Those affected, according to a statement from the Ministry of Aviation, are the Managing Directors of the Federal Airports Authority … read more
Over the past decade, Shell Oil Company’s Nigeria operation has been complicit in human rights abuses, caused inexorable environmental harm, injected cash and resources into an armed militia groups, and fueled the communal tensions that are tearing the region apart. … read more
A pipeline in Nigeria belonging to Italian firm ENI has been sabotaged and is now undergoing repairs, the company said on Tuesday, with such incidents frequent in the country’s oil-producing region. “There was a sabotage on the pipeline Obama-Brass, close … read more
PETROLEUM and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, has accused theleadership of Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, Committee on Expatriate Quota of compromise. The umbrella body for senior staff in the nation’s petroleum industry demanded for the immediate … read more
At least 19 people have been shot or hacked to death in a brutal attack in a village in north-west Nigeria, police say. Eyewitnesses said about 150 people raided the village of Lingyado, in Zamfara state close to the border … read more
Shell has never denied that its oil operations have polluted large areas of the Niger Delta – land and air. But it had resisted charges of complicity in human rights abuses. Court documents now reveal that in the 1990s Shell … read more
At least three cases involving Nigerians claiming to have lost their manhood (penis) to suspected cultists are currently in the news. But they have not received prominence like that of the gang rape of a young woman in Abia State … read more
A witness says suspected members of a radical Muslim sect threw a bomb at soldiers in Nigeria’s restive northeast, killing two bystanders at a nearby wedding. The attack happened Saturday in Maiduguri, the home of the sect known locally as … read more
SECURITY operatives have foiled an attempt by about 920 suspected members of Boko Haram to infiltrate the federal capital, Abuja ostensibly to carry out the earlier threat by the group to bomb the city during today’s 51st Independence Anniversary celebration. … read more