Nigeria’s leaders still need to shed some of the attitudes and values built up under military rule if Africa’s most populous nation is to reach its full potential, according to a review by its continental peers. The African Peer Review … read more
Following Thursday ruling by federal high court in Asaba quashing the 170-count charge bordering on money laundering filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against former Governor James Ibori of Delta State, the commission has said the ex-governor … read more
After decades of military rule, coups and strong-armed elections, Africa’s most populous nation now finds itself with a seriously ill, and absent, president. For weeks, President Umaru Yar’Adua has been hospitalized in Saudi Arabia for what staffers say is a … read more
Former Delta State Governor Chief James Ibori walked away a free man yesterday when the Federal High Court, Asaba quashed all the 170 charges of money laundering instituted against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). When the … read more
DESPITE repeated reassurances from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that the current fuel scarcity which has hit some states across the federation would soon end, the situation seems only to be worsening, as the price of fuel continues to … read more
Nigeria’s Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) export has suffered yet another major setback as Shell Petro-leum Development Company (SPDC) has announced the shut down of its Soku Gas Plant in Rivers State, exactly two months after the plant resumed operations. The … read more
The travel plans of over one million British Airways (BA) passengers are to continue on schedule as a High Court has issued an emergency injunction to stop a 12-day strike by the airline’s cabin crew staff over Christmas. Over 90 … read more
Nigeria’s most vocal opposition party, the Action Congress (AC), has slammed the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Justice Minister, Michael Aondoakaa, for “seeking to pull the wool over the eyes of Nigerians with his string of poorly-thought-out comments on … read more
Pipeline vandalism at Arepo Village in Ogun State, on Monday, may have slowed down distribution of petroleum products in Lagos area, thereby aggrevating the fuel scarcity which has lasted for three days. The vandalism, which was discovered late Monday night, … read more
His problems seemed to have come to an end on the night of October 3 this year, when he accepted the Federal Government’s amnesty offered to militants in the creeks of Niger Delta. Then, he had renounced violence and militancy, … read more