The National Association of Air Traffic Engineers (NAAE) has suspended its plans to embark on strike. It took eight hours yesterday for the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) authorities to prevail on the aggrieved workers not to down tools. The … read more
STRONG indication emerged after the top secret security meeting between the Presidency and the leadership of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and the National Union of Petroleum Gas Workers (NUPENG) on Monday that the … read more
The rebound, which the capital market recorded last week Friday after weeks of consecutive losses, collapsed at the close of Monday’s trading. The Nigerian Stock Exchange’s market capitalisation and All-Share index were down by 0.36 per cent each. Over N16.52 … read more
OOL sources inform us that a Lebanese national was kidnapped yesterday evening in Victoria Island, Lagos. The incident occurred at 17:40hrs and the man was taken from a construction site on Mbadiwe Azikwe. The site is located right on the … read more
NIGERIA is exploring diplomatic and legal channels to get the list of its officials indicted in the $180million Halliburton bribery scandal. Security agencies are handling the matter. Besides, the government has raised two teams in Nigeria and the United States … read more
Barely 24 hours after they were declared wanted over a fresh N3billion fraud, the Vaswani brothers yesterday insisted that they are being witch-hunted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The Chairman of the EFCC, Mrs. Farida Waziri, had on … read more
A Nigerian businessman has appeared in court for allegedly defrauding an American citizen of 1.8 million dollars by promising him a non-existent oil contract, the anti-graft agency said Sunday. The government’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said 49-year-old Collins … read more
The police have so far arrested a dozen staff members of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) over the $200,000 stolen at the association’s offices in Abuja last week Goal.com has been reliably informed that the police has thus far arrested … read more
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has described the situation in the Niger Delta as criminal and not political. Obasanjo said this during an interview by Aljazeera‘s Sir David Frost on Friday. ”The situation in the Niger Delta is not a situation… … read more
Representatives of the oil unions will meet government officials on Monday in hopes of averting a workers strike over security fears in the restive Niger Delta, a senior union official said yesterday. Petroleum, Energy and Gas Senior Staff Association of … read more