The early hours of Friday witnessed attacks by some-yet-to-be identified militants, who took to the streets as they fired gunshots along Aggrey Road down to Borikiri area all in town area of the capital city. Eyewitness told Niger Delta STANDARD … read more
An Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark has called on President Umaru Yar’Adua to reverse the government’s earlier decision and conduct the trial of Mr. Henry Okah openly. Okah is currently being tried secretly. Clark said the only way the Federal … read more
A group of unknown gunmen stormed Borokiri in Port Harcourt and threw explosives to disrupt the ongoing carnival in Rivers State. Our correspondent gathered that the hoodlums drove into the area in two Fannagon buses and threw dynamites in different … read more
Police intelligence have begun investigation into alleged plot by former anti-graft czar, Nuhu Ribadu, to undermine Nigeria using tactics that include inciting foreign powers against Aso Rock and key public institutions. That came on the heels of the Nigerian Bar … read more
Nigeria’s interbank foreign exchange market remained frozen yesterday as dealers waited to see how the central bank would act to stabilise the local naira after it fell sharply against the dollar. Bank governor Chukwuma Soludo said on Wednesday the central … read more
The Lagos State Government has said that the Eko Bridge will be shut from Friday for three days to allow for repair works on a section of the bridge. The rehabilitation will be done in collaboration with the Federal Ministry … read more
The challenges facing the economy in the coming year in the face of dwindling oil prices was underscored yesterday as the naira lost 962 kobo to the dollar at the Nigerian Inter-Bank Foreign Exchange Market (NIFEX), the highest single loss … read more
Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Bala Hassan has said that hostage taking is on the decline in the state. According to Mr Hassan who gave figures to support his assertion, in the last six months, recorded only thirty nine … read more
A Bulgarian worker kidnapped in Nigeria and held for 10 days before being freed on November 30 described his ordeal in an interview with the daily Trud published Wednesday. “I spent 10 days between life and death,” engineer Emil Tsvetkov, … read more
THE Nigerian Navy is currently entangled in a potentially dangerous land dispute with a rustic local family in the Rivers State axis of the Niger Delta, Nigeria’s main oil and gas region that is home to rampaging insurgents galvanised by … read more