BAYELSA State government expended over N456 million on the aborted two-day working visit by President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua to the state earlier scheduled for June 29 and 30, 2009. The state Commissioner for Information, Orientation and Strategy, Asara Asara, disclosed … read more
President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua yesterday directed the chairman of the Presidential Panel on Amnesty and Disarmament of Militants in the Niger Delta, Gen. Godwin Abbe to immediately begin the process for a formal meeting with detained MEND chieftain, Mr. Henry … read more
President Umaru Yar’Adua’s scheduled visit to Bayelsa state was indefinitely postponed yesterday even as the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) vowed to continue its arms struggle. MEND described the president’s offer of amnesty as bait aimed … read more
AS investigations into the $190 million Halliburton bribe money continued, it has emerged that principal character in the saga, Mr. Jeffery Tessler, a lawyer, allegedly used construction giant, Julius Berger Nigeria Plc to distribute the sum of $11 million to … read more
The death toll in the collapsed two-storey building which occurred at the Lagos Terminus, Iddo in Ebute-Metta area of Lagos, at the weekend, rose to 31 yesterday. When our reporter visited the scene, he learned that an additional eighteen bodies … read more
The threat by militants to cripple Nigeria’s oil export is gradually being actualised as Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) has suspended its entire operations in the Western Niger Delta, covering Delta State and parts of Bayelsa State, … read more
RESIDENTS of Oyingbo and environs in Ebute-metta, Lagos Mainland Local Government woke up yesterday to the sight of a two-storey building, reportedly built about 45 years ago, reduced to rubble after a downpour on Saturday night. As at the time … read more
THE Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has announced plans to close down the domestic Runway 18 Left of the Murtala Muhammed Airport to enable it carry out maintenance work on the taxiway of the runway. According to FAAN’s Managing … read more
The NNPC has denied ever paying Niger Delta militants any money, while also noting that news reports from the House of Representatives indicating the country’s fuel stock and crude oil supply will dry out in 15 days was far from … read more
President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Ledum Mtee, has warned that the reconciliation that President Umaru Yar’Adua is offering leaves much to be desired, even as the Rivers State governorship candidate of the Action … read more