THE Federal Government Inter-Agency Coordination Committee on Amnesty has voiced out that the high numbers of militants that accepted the amnesty offer by the government were so many that the capacity of the committee was pushed to the limits. Describing … read more
Minister of State for Information and Communications, Aliyu Bilbis, has said that Nigeria currently occupies number two position among the nations in the world whose citizens are infected with HIV/AIDS. Bilbis stated this on Friday at the 2009 World Post … read more
Teachers in Nigeria’s public universities have suspended their near four-month strike for two weeks so they could conclude ongoing negotiations with the federal government, their umbrella union said Friday. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) President Ukachukwu Awuzie announced … read more
For 13 years Dr Nathans Ibe has made regular trips from the UK to his homeland Nigeria to give free healthcare to villagers. But on his most recent trip to Imo state in the volatile Niger Delta he was kidnapped. … read more
The authorities in Nigeria say as many as 15,000 oil militants active in the Niger Delta surrendered under the two-month amnesty which expired on Sunday. The official in charge of the scheme said 5,000 weapons and 18 gunboats had also … read more
Nigerian anti-graft agency EFCC said on Thursday it would soon question the top management of three troubled banks that were sacked last week for running their institutions into insolvency. “Top executives of Bank PHB, Spring Bank and Equitorial Trust bank … read more
Nigeria’s most vocal opposition party, the Action Congress (AC), has condemned the plan by federal legislators to surreptitiously grant themselves and their state counterparts the kind of immunity from arrest and prosecution now being enjoyed by the President, Vice President … read more
A cargo ship loaded with weapons and ammunitions from the United States has been confiscated in Lagos, Nigeria. The arms loaded ship has raised concerns over arms proliferation either to the unrelenting rebel factions of Niger Delta or to political … read more
The main armed group in southern Nigeria said Wednesday it will resume attacks on the oil industry when its ceasefire expires on October 15. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) dismissed a government amnesty programme as … read more
THERE are indications that some of the arms and ammunition surrendered by the ex-militants originally belonged to the Federal Government. Those arms, it was alleged, were either stolen, bought from the services or seized by the militants during clashes with … read more