A gas pipeline in the Utorogun oil fields was blown up by unidentified criminals on Saturday. This is the first time such attack was carried out on a Shell-operated Nigerian Gas Company (NGC) Compressor station transporting compressed gas to Delta … read more
SECURITY has been beefed up in and around the Federal Capital Territory ahead of the visit of the United States Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton. A check by the Sunday Tribune revealed that the officers from the US Intelligence Unit … read more
We could have been more proactive – IGP II Inspector-general of police Ogbonna Onovo yesterday gave the police thumbs down for the handling of the crisis that led to the killing of people by the “Boko Haram”. Addressing senior police … read more
Two days into the commencement of the federal government’s amnesty programme, President Umar Yar’Adua yesterday met with 32 leaders of various militant groups from the Niger Delta at the State House, Abuja. Also yesterday, confusion trailed the implementation of the … read more
MILITANTS appear to have shunned the call by the Federal Government to turn in their arms in Delta State , as none of them showed up, yesterday, at the arms collection centres on the second day of the renunciation exercise. … read more
The Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), headed by Mujahideen Dokubo-Asari, has said that it would not accept the amnesty proposal of the Federal Government even as the group has raised alarm over alleged plans by the government to kill … read more
Nigeria’s most vocal opposition political party, the Action Congress (AC), has expressed deep shock and dismay at the arrest of its guber natorial candidate for Osun state in the 2007 general elections, Alhaji Rauf Aregbesola, over the genuineness or otherwise … read more
Ghana is set to become a major exporter to Nigeria and other West African countries according to a paper issued by Ghana’s Deputy Minister of Energy, “How Ghana Kept the Light On.” It said, “Ghana wants to be a major … read more
An uprising by a radical Islamic sect in northern Nigeria may ostensibly have been about religion but such bloodletting will recur unless underlying issues of poverty, unemployment and education are addressed. West African Islam is overwhelmingly moderate and northern Nigeria … read more
As the Federal government amnesty for militants in the Niger Delta got off to a good start yesterday, the police, acting on a tip-off, recovered 26 brand new AK 47 rifles and other arms and ammunition allegedly imported by Mujahid … read more