Giuseppe Canova, the Italian national from Castione della Presolana (Bergamo) who was kidnapped on Monday in Nigeria, is well. AGI received the news from Italian sources who are negotiating his release. The sources say that there are present attempts to … read more
THE Federal Government yesterday gave an update on its bid to unmask the senior Nigerian officials that allegedly collected bribe from Halliburton to award contracts in the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) projects. Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Chief Kaase … read more
Family members of a 10-man Nigerian crew held in captivity by Somali pirates since August 2008 have appealed to Nigerian Senate President David Mark to intervene to save their breadwinners from imminent death. A petition signed by Trigo Egbegi, Dorcas … read more
Siemens, Halliburton, Shell, Wilbros, Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR) and Starcrest, are all multinational companies with one thing in common. They and their officials have been or are being investigated by authorities in the United States, France, Germany, Switzerland and … read more
Barely one week after President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua promised to grant amnesty to any of the Niger Delta militants who willingly gives up his arms, the gale of abduction took a new and frightening dimension as an expatriate engineer with … read more
About 2,612 motorists were in 2008 sent to the Yaba Psychiatric Hospital by the Lagos State Government in 2008 for driving against traffic and related traffic offences. The state Commissioner of Transportation, Prof. Bamidele Badejo, made this disclosure in Lagos … read more
Nigeria will prosecute its citizens allegedly involved in the Halliburton Co. bribery scandal when their names are received from the U.S. government, a senior official said Tuesday. Speaking on national television, Dora Akunyili, minister of information said Nigeria had written … read more
Following the transfer of the case involving the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, Henry Okah, to the federal High Court in Jos, the trial is to begin afresh. The case was being heard … read more
Nigerian group is seeking the prosecution of former president Olusegun Obasanjo for “spraying currency on dancers” at his 70th birthday party, local media said Tuesday. The Nation newspaper said the Human and Environmental Development Agenda has written to Nigeria’s attorney … read more
Gunmen have kidnapped a British oil worker in southern Nigeria, killing one police officer and wounded another as they did so, a security source said Monday. Assailants kidnapped the British man, who works for Nigerian oil services company Adamac Industries … read more