President Umaru Yar’Adua will travel to Saudi Arabia on Monday for medical checks, his office said. “President Umaru Yar’Adua will leave Abuja today for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. While there, the president will call on his personal physicians in … read more
Nigeria’s anti-corruption police on Monday gave defaulting debtors of nine bailed-out banks two weeks to organise repayments or risk arrest, prosecution and the seizure of their assets. Nigeria has injected around 600 billion naira ($4 billion) into the banking system … read more
A 17-year-old Nigerian girl and three other pilgrims died of swine flu soon after arriving in Saudi Arabia, Saudi health officials said yesterday while announcing the first deaths from swine flu in this year’s hajj. The Saudi Health Ministry said … read more
TWO Policemen were killed yesterday in Port Harcourt and two others sustained gun shot wounds during a fierce encounter between the Police and gunmen around Woji road area of the state capital. Also, two children were kidnapped on their way … read more
The Commissioner of the Lagos State Police Command, Marvel Akpoyibo, said on Monday that armed robbers have found a new way of robbing drivers on the highway. “We need to inform the members of the public of the new trend … read more
An employee of Belgrade’s Energoprojekt Dragan Stepanović, who was kidnapped in Nigeria, has managed to escape. He told the FoNet news agency that he was able to escape because his captors probably did not expect that He would know the … read more
There are no records to account for this country’s massive but haphazard importation of petroleum products, according to an official survey carried out last week. The survey, carried out by a Federal Government team led by engineers from Telemetry Nigeria … read more
The division within the leadership of the coalition of “ex-militant” groups in the Niger-Delta, the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger-Delta (MEND) seems to have taken a turn for the worse as some leaders of former militant groups, which are … read more
A year ago, the world was taken aback when on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom a nerve-taking documentary entitled Saving Africa’s Witch Children was aired. The demeaning scenes of tortured and stigmatised children tore hearts apart, human rights organisation, … read more
The Code of Conduct Tribunal yesterday in Abuja issued a bench warrant for the arrest of the former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu for his failure to appear before it to take his plea. … read more