PRESIDENT Umaru Yar’Adua was rattled yesterday by the South-South Governors’ threat to pull out of its amnesty programme for militants and has reached out to some of the governors to find out what went wrong with their usual channel of … read more
A Nigerian newspaper editor said on Friday that police have charged him with “publication of libellous article, threat to life, conspiracy and forgery.” Shaka Momodu, a senior editor with Lagos-based ThisDay newspaper, said that the police interrogated him on Wednesday … read more
Nigeria’s oil revenue was slashed by half in the first quarter of 2009 compared to the previous quarter, official statistics released Thursday show, as the industry suffered the impact of militant attacks. The huge slump in oil income dragged down … read more
Governors of the six states of the South-South geopolitical zone resolved unanimously last night to distance themselves from the amnesty deal granted militants in the oil-rich region by President Umaru Yar’Adua unless the Federal Government withdraws the new Petroleum Industries … read more
Nigeria’s President Umaru Yar’Adua has appointed Mr. Ogb onaya Onovo as the acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), pending his confirmation by the appropriate authorities, the presidency said in a statement Thursday. Onovo, until his appointment a Deputy Inspector General … read more
Vietnamese police have arrested five Nigerians in a probe into a smuggling ring suspected of trafficking heroin through this country from India to China, state media reported. “The suspects, including five Nigerians and four Vietnamese, have apparently transported a significant … read more
The Yoruba of South-Western Nigeria may need to hold a colloquium to choose another word to capture the civilised kidnapping that is currently the rave in the country. Kidnapping simply means holding another person against his/her will, with the intent … read more
SECURITY around the Atlas Cove jetty in Lagos was yesterday beefed up over fears that men of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) may stage another attack on the Jetty in Lagos, which was repaired by the … read more
More than 500 people have been kidnapped in Nigeria so far this year, up nearly 70 percent from all of last year, as militants and criminals expand targets to include religious figures and children, a federal minister said. Hundreds of … read more
Some 5,000 inhabitants from five villages in Nigeria’s northern Kano state have threatened to relocate to the state capital, Kano, in protest at 30 years of grappling with acute water shortages. Villagers in Rigar-Rana, Agale, Dandani, Kwabo and Barebari in … read more