TWENTY- FOUR days after he was taken to Saudi Arabia for medical attention, the hide-and- seek game over the state of health of President Umaru Yar’Adua continued yesterday with top Federal Government officials preferring that Nigerians be silent over the … read more
The federal government, in keeping with its efforts aimed at strengthening the gains of the just concluded amnesty process, yesterday inaugurated a presidential committee and four sub-committees for the Niger Delta. The committees include the Presidential Committee on the modalities … read more
TWENTY-FOUR days after President’s Umaru Yar’Adua was admitted to the King Faisal Intensive Care and Research Centre, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta has warned that the prevailing ceasefire in the region was being … read more
President, West African Bar Association, WABA, Mr Femi Falana, yesterday, initiated an action, asking a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to compel President Umaru Musa Yar’adua to immediately empower the Vice-President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan to discharge the functions of … read more
Labour stood firm last night against deregulation. Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) leaders rose from a crucial meeting in Abuja, saying no to fuel price increases – the likely fallout of a deregulated downstream sector of the oil industry. They set … read more
The Nigerian company Allied Energy and Italian oil and gas major Eni (ENI.MI) have started pumping oil from Nigeria’s offshore Oyo oilfield with an initial output of about 25,000 barrels per day (bpd), Eni said on Tuesday. Eni, which has … read more
Nigeria’s military has destroyed about 600 illegal oil refineries in the Niger Delta and arrested seven oil thieves, the military said on Tuesday. Details of the refineries were not immediately available, but industry officials said they could be makeshift structures … read more
Despite claiming ignorance of the near air disaster of last Sunday, the Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has launched an investigation into what led to the temporary breakdown of the radar at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos (MMIA). Many … read more
Ailing Nigeria’s President Umaru Yar’Adua may act this week to stem the worsening constitutional and governance crisis caused by his illness by moving to empower his deputy to act for him while he recuperates from his sickness, the local press … read more
ANOTHER round of fuel scarcity became apparent nationwide, Monday, 10 days to Christmas, leaving commuters stranded, businesses paralysed and Nigerians fleeced at the few filling stations where the product was available. Checks revealed that in view of the current realities, … read more