A British oil worker freed after being held captive for more than six months in Nigeria is to remain in the country for another week. Robin Hughes, 59, originally from St Margaret’s Bay, Kent, was among 27 oil workers kidnapped … read more
Two Turkish crew members of Marshallese-flagged Turkish ship Aleyna Mercan abducted by pirates off Nigerian, were released Wednesday, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported. Turkish diplomatic sources were quoted as saying that Captain Sinan Taskiran and second engineer Salim Attila … read more
German construction giant Berger Nigeria Plc is to refund N6.1 billion of the contract sum for the East-West road in the Niger Delta, following its withdrawal from the job. The road runs through Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Cross River and Akwa … read more
Insinuations about a possible deployment of soldiers for the conduct of the governorship rerun in Ekiti State on Saturday have been laid to rest. The Presidency said yesterday that requests that troops be deployed in Ekiti for the poll would … read more
Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said Wednesday in southeast Nigeria’s Cross River state that some 15,000 people have been displaced because of a mysterious wind on April 17. The NEMA official said the windstorm damaged about 1,200 houses at … read more
The police have advised President Umaru Yar’Adua that it is not necessary to deploy soldiers in Ekiti for the Governorship rerun ballot on April 25. Force Public Relations Officer, Emmanuel Ojukwu, gave an assurance in Abuja on Tuesday that the … read more
THE Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Michael Aondoaaka, on Tuesday said the United States had agreed to provide evidence linking eminent Nigerians with the Halliburton bribery scandal. The minister said this in Abuja, while inaugurating … read more
Kidnapping of people in exchange for ransome which is very prevalent in the South-south and South-eastern zones in the country has reared its ugly head in the northern part of the country as police confirmed that a Canadian university student … read more
A Canadian citizen was reported as missing and presumably kidnapped in Nigeria, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Friday. No details of the woman’s identity or the circumstances of her disappearance were given. A ministry spokesman said Canadian officials were … read more
ONE of the Commanders of the Movement for Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND), Commander Ogunbos, who led the squad that had a fierce gun battle with the Joint Task Force (JTF) on the Niger-Delta during the Easter festivity at Igbomotoru … read more