THE Federal Government has released the sum of N54.6 billion for fuel subsidy. The Minister of State for Finance, Mr. Remi Babalola, yesterday disclosed in Abuja in a chat with reporters that the amount represents the outstanding petroleum subsidy payment … read more
Refineries in the country are at least 30 years behind modern techno-logy, the NNPC indicated yes-terday in Kaduna. Dr Levi Ajuonuma, Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of NNPC who made this known yesterday in Kaduna said: “The control … read more
President Umaru Yar’Adua Saturday ordered his lawyers to sue the local ‘Leadership’ newspaper after it reported in the day’s edition that the President has taken ill again and has not attended public functions in the past two days. ”The President … read more
By Jomo Gbomo The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) joins the host of upset Nigerians to condemn the primitive conduct by naval escorts to a rear admiral who had to whip and strip naked a woman … read more
Uzoma Okere, the lady brutalised Monday by armed naval ratings attached to Rear Admiral Harry Arogundade, has dragged the Nigerian Navy before a Lagos High Court, reports Saturday’s issue of the privately-owned Punch newspaper. In an enforcement of fundamental human … read more
Rivers State Governor Chibuike Ameachi has denied that he contrinutted N50 million to the Niger Delta Vigilante Movement to acquire arms for the 2007 electioneering campaigns. Comrade Tom Atake, the head of Niger Delta Vigilante Movement accused the Governor of … read more
About 2,500 fresh troops have been deployed in the Niger Delta from the western and northern parts of the country, the Commander of the Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta, Operation Restore Hope, Brig.-Gen. Wuyep Rimtip, has said. Rimtip, … read more
Several people, including navy personnel, were killed during a gun battle between rival gangs over local politics in Nigeria’s southern oil-producing state of Bayelsa on Friday, residents said. Fighting in the town of Nembe — nestled in the mangrove creeks … read more
Gunmen in speedboats attacked the Nigerian military at an oil flow station operated by U.S. energy firm Chevron late on Thursday but the facility was not affected, the military said on Friday. “Last night, some men in speedboats attacked our … read more
An environmentalist group and four Nigerians filed suit against Royal Dutch Shell PLC in the Netherlands on Friday, claiming the company was negligent in cleaning up oil spills in Nigeria. The civil suit filed by the four men and Friends … read more