THE Joint Task Force (JTF), code-named Operation Restore Hope, on Tuesday applauded last Friday’s judgment of the Federal High Court, Benin, convicting the 13 Filipinos arrested on November 14, 2008, for illegal oil bunkering. According to a statement issued by … read more
Nigerian advanced fee fraudsters have broken into the webmail account of UK Justice Secretary Jack Straw to mount an audacious, and potentially politically embarrassing, scam. Hundreds of Straw’s contacts received a bogus (and frankly implausible) message on Thursday claiming the … read more
Nigeria says countries around the Gulf of Guinea should work together to make the region safer. Gunmen, allegedly from Nigeria, attacked Equatorial Guinea’s presidential palace, last week. The Gulf of Guinea has seen persistent acts of piracy, in recent years. … read more
Hobbled by a persistent power problem that seems to have defied solution, Nigeria has voted a massive 323 billion naira for raising its power generation and tackling transmission and distribution problems (US$1=145 Naira). The money, jointed contributed by the 36 … read more
A 32-year-old woman has died shortly after she was delivered of sextuplets in Nigeria’s South-west Ogun state, the private Guardian newspaper reported on Monday. Mrs. Amuda Ajoke Bello, who made history on Saturday by giving birth to sextuplets, died in … read more
A final year student of MacDonald University was reportedly taken hostage before his parents at Mbuoba area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, yesterday. According to spokesman of the Joint Task Force and the army in the state, Lieutenant Col. Sagir … read more
Dr. Kanayo Nwanze, the Nigerian agricultural scientist who excelled as the top researcher for a research project in West Africa, has been elected the new President of the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). Nwanze, who has been the … read more
The Director-General of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), Professor Olusegun Adewoye, says the agency is set to mass produce the digital weighing scale developed and produced by its development institute. Speaking on Monday in Onitsha, in … read more
OOL friends at Drum Cussac sent the following today in their daily alerts. SUMMARY: According to reports on Monday, February 23, at least seven people have been killed during clashes between rival cult groups (gangs) in the Edo State capital … read more
Nigerian security forces repelled an attack by gunmen on an oil terminal operated by Italy’s Agip in the Niger Delta late on Saturday, a military spokesman said. Gunmen in two speedboats attacked Nigerian troops guarding the Twon Brass oil terminal … read more