The deadly stabbing of a police officer sparked clashes in tense central Nigeria on Tuesday as Muslims commemorated the birth of the Prophet Mohammed, with witnesses reporting several others killed. According to one witness, the violence in the city of … read more
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has carpeted President Goodluck Jonathan over the appointment of former member of Ondo State House of Assembly, Kingsley Kuku, as Presidential Adviser on Niger Delta. The group reiterated that it does … read more
A Vanguard report states that the Nigerian National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (Nosdra) has taken the Pipelines and Product Marketing Company Limited (PPMC), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), to the Federal High Court in … read more
The United States says it will partner the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs in ensuring the success of the Amnesty Programme. The U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Terence McCulley, said this yesterday in Abuja during a courtesy call on the … read more
A picture of the presidential candidates for the April 9 election emerged yesterday. Eighteen candidates have so far cleared the hurdle to contest the election, sources told The Nation. More candidates are likely to emerge before the expiration of the … read more
The Managing Director of Bristow Helicopters, Capt. Akin Oni, has said the company has put a policy in place to replace all existing expatriate pilots and engineers with Nigerians by 2015. Oni, who disclosed this last week in Lagos at … read more
President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday cancelled planned campaign rallies in two northern states after a stampede killed 12 people at an election meeting he addressed the day before. Police said Sunday that a 12th victim had died in hospital following … read more
FOR allegedly excluding their community in its welfare programmes despite alleged environmental pollution in the area, the people of Obe-Nla in Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State have threatened to shut down the operations of the American oil giant, … read more
Nigerians should draw the right lessons from the 18-day revolt which saw the end of former Egyptian leader, Hosni Mubarak after 30 years and do the needful to effect a regime change in Nigeria at the April polls, presidential candidate … read more
THE late President Umaru Yar’Adua did a kidney transplant in 2002 as governor of Katsina State, but avoided another one as president for fears causing unrest, according to diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. The cables claimed former Minister of Agriculture … read more