Angry farmers under the aegis of Bayelsa Farmers Multi-purpose Cooperative Union, on Thursday in Yenagoa, held Fraizer Okuoro, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, hostage. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) revealed that the farmers, armed with … read more
Whether the voters’ registration exercise has ended or not is not the issue many Nigerians are talking about these days. The concerns about that exercise are largely about the huge sums spent on its execution compared to the number of … read more
A UK-based subsidiary of the US engineering and oil services giant Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) is to pay £7m to settle a case with the Serious Fraud Office connected to bribery and corruption involving its parent company in Nigeria. … read more
Cameroonian hostages seized earlier this month in the southwest Bakassi region were freed Wednesday, the government announced. “The hostages have been freed today,” government spokesman and Communications Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary confirmed. A press conference will be held on Thursday … read more
President Goodluck Jonathan Wednesday directed the nation’s security agencies to immediately start a special training of their personnel on proper crowd management, to avoid a re-occurrence of the tragedy that happened last Saturday in southern Port Harcourt, where 19 people … read more
Two gunmen in Nigeria suspected of involvement in a failed abduction attempt in the southern city of Warri were attacked and killed by a mob, according to a police official. Residents in the Eboh district of the city confronted the … read more
For the third time this year oil marketers have increased the price of aviation fuel, known as Jet A1, thereby prompting airlines to increase fares in order to absorb the extra operation cost, which is put at 25 per cent. … read more
Gunmen attacked a church Tuesday in northern Nigeria, but it was unclear if there were casualties in the latest such incident in the region where dozens have been killed in recent months. “There was an attack on a church around … read more
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) – the country’s mobile regulator, yesterday said that new Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards would no longer be allowed to make calls, signifying the beginning of SIM card registration. Executive Vice-Chairman (EVC) of the NCC, … read more
Nigeria began displaying register of voters for the April polls even as multiple registration was reported to have taken place in some centres. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in charge of the oil-rich African country”s just-concluded registration of eligible … read more