A Shell Spy Police Sergeant, Sylvanus Ebhooman, and six others have been arrested by the Joint Task Force, Operation Restore Hope, for alleged pipeline theft. Coordinator, Joint Media Campaign Centre of the JTF, Colonel Rabe Abubakar, who confirmed the arrest … read more
Moves to address the lingering fuel crisis continued at the weekend with the Federal Government considering the recommendation of the Presidential Committee on Deregulation on the appropriate pricing of petrol. The current template of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency … read more
NIGERIA on Thursday in New York submitted a claim to the United Nations (UN) for the extension of its continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles. The documents for the claim were presented to UN officials of the Division for Ocean … read more
THE Nigeria Police Force is to have full powers to check election rigging and ensure free and fair polls in the country under a legislative proposal by President Umaru Yar‘Adua that also aims to send thugs out of election business. … read more
Minister of Health, Professor Babatunde Osotimehin, has said the Federal Government had taken proactive measures to prevent and confront the swine flu, should there be any outbreak of the A(H1N1) influenza in Nigeria. Osotimehin also said government would upgrade the … read more
SEVERAL lives were feared lost yesterday in violence at Umuechem community in Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State. The cause was a chieftaincy tussle. Community sources told Sunday Vanguard that there had been tension in the area for long … read more
Nigeria’s southeastern Rivers State government has described reports of an outbreak of influenza A( H1N1) in the state as untrue on Saturday. The Commissioner for Health, Samson Parker, told the News Agency of Nigeria in the state capital Port Harcourt … read more
Port Harcourt, the capital city of Rivers State, which prides itself as Nigeria’s garden city, has ranked low among cities that have the best infrastructure, a new report by the United States-based Mercer Consulting for 2009 has revealed. According to … read more
Nigeria is a country of circles. The land scape, whether political, social or economic, is rept with circuital. One of such circles is perennia fuel scarcity. There has been no government in the country that has not grapple with the … read more
Kidnapping in Rivers State is now punishable with imprisonment for life without the option of a fine, following the signing into law yesterday of the bill prohibiting kidnapping in the state. The state governor, Chibuike Amaechi said at the signing … read more