NIGERIA’s electoral commission was yesterday scrambling to prepare for rescheduled parliamentary elections on Saturday after two delays cast doubt on its ability to organise the vote in Africa’s top oil producer. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at first delayed … read more
The Presidential Task Force on Power (PTFP) has stated that an additional 1,000-megawatts have been added to Nigeria ’s electricity supply since President Goodluck Jonathan assumed power less than a year ago. In its progress report released Monday, Chairman of … read more
The British Police has kicked against the bail granted the former governor of Delta State, Chief James Onanefe Ibori, by the United Arab Emirates court sitting in Dubai. Metropolitan Police authorities, while responding to an electronic mail sent by our … read more
Elections in Nigeria this month are sneaking up on the oil market. The civil war raging in Libya and unrest across the Middle East pushed oil to triple digits in recent weeks. But the threat of disruptions to Nigeria’s 2.2 … read more
Nigerian authorities have yet again postponed the country’s parliamentary polls with elections now set to take place next Saturday, reports said. The Election commission’s decision Sunday marks the second time that the parliamentary polls originally scheduled for April 2 have … read more
The Nigerian vice presidential candidate and former Delta state governor, James Onanefe Ibori, was released from a Dubai prison last Thursday on humanitarian grounds because of his deteriorating health, his lawyer confirmed yesterday. Mr Ibori, 63, who has been in … read more
A stifling heat sat over the train car waiting at the Lagos terminal, its aisles a bazaar. Railroad employees hustled mobile phone recharge cards, women carried sweating bottles of soda atop their heads, and a man thrust packets of poison … read more
Shell started the selective divestment of some of its Nigerian assets with the SEPLAT and FHN/Afren deals. In executing these deals, Shell’s stated objectives were to optimise its portfolio in Nigeria while supporting the indigenisation drive of the Nigerian government. … read more
Following the cancellation of the Senate and following the cancellation of the Senate and House of Representatives elections yesterday, Nigerians have been assessing the impact of the cancellation. One of such is the huge capital losses the postponement will add … read more
Nigerians vote for a new parliament on Saturday in the first of a series of landmark elections this month as Africa’s most populous nation seeks to overcome a history of deeply flawed and violent polls. Violence has occurred in the … read more