The court of Appeal sitting in Benin City this afternoon annulled the election of Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan as governor of Delta State. The Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) had declared Mr Uduaghan winner of the 2007 governorship election, but Great … read more
French company Bourbon, a global provider of oil and gas marine services for the petroleum industry, confirmed on Nov. 10 that three Bourbon employees who were abducted in Nigeria in September while aboard the Bourbon Alexandre have been released by … read more
Gunmen in Nigeria on Monday kidnapped two Indonesians and also shot and injured two other people in a village in southern Akwa Ibom State, police said. “The hoodlums shot and injured two people and made away with two Indonesians,” police … read more
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), said plans are underway to launch series of attacks on oil infrastructure in the Niger Delta region soon. It also said that it was holding several expatraites hostage including three … read more
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) on Monday directed its members to join the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in its three-day warning strike scheduled for Wednesday. A statement by the National Secretary of the union, Shuaibu Leman, directed the members … read more
A suspected member of an Islamist sect that launched an uprising last year tried to shoot a local traditional leader at his house at the weekend in northern Nigeria, the military said on Monday. Military spokesman Lieutenant Abubakar Abdullahi said … read more
THE Federal Government at the weekend said it was changing its strategy towards its earlier target of producing a truly made-in-Nigeria car by the year 2017. It was learnt that because the steel and plastic industries which the government thought … read more
The US Department of Justice hit the London-listed oil super-major with the penalty, after Panalpina, which was employed by Shell, agreed to plead guilty to taking bribes on behalf of its clients. Panalpina, a major Swiss freight and logistics company, … read more
A blast rocked a government lodge located near a state headquarters in southern Nigeria’s restive oil producing Niger Delta region on Wednesday, an official said. No casualties were reported in the explosion which occurred around 1400 GMT in Asaba, the … read more
An overhead water tank collapsed and crushed to death six pupils of the College of Education Model Primary School at Agbor, in Nigeria’s Southern Delta state, and left over 20 others injured on Tuesday, the local press reported. The report … read more