Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State yesterday cut short his trip abroad to return to the country in order to take charge of the state following its problem with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission which detained two of its … read more
Less than two months after his administration willingly handed over Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroun, President Umaru Yar’Adua on Tuesday directed the National Boundary Commission to ensure the extension of Nigeria’s continental shelf. Yar’Adua said an expansion of the country’s borders … read more
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday in Abuja, detained the Secretary to the Rivers State Government (SSG), Chief Magnus Abe, and the Chief of Staff of state governor, Chief Nyeso Wike. According to the EFCC, they were detained … read more
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) today detained the “wanted” Chief of Staff to Governor Rotimi Amaechi, Nyeso Wike, and the Secretary to the Rivers State government, Magnus Abbe. SaharaReporters had earlier reported that the troubled chief of staff … read more
RIVERS STATE is now a no-go area for all United Nations (UN) officials with families as diplomatic indications both at the UN and the United States suggesting deepening diplomatic anxiety over Nigeria’s troubled Niger Delta area and the Federal Government’s … read more
Community leaders and youths from Kokodiagbene and others affected by the August 2008 crude oil spill from the Otunana platform of Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) yesterday made good their threat to invade the facility. The action was carried out shortly … read more
IT was not a day of cheerful news for Northern Nigeria as it was declared on Monday to be the region with the highest number of children not atending school in the world. It was at the occasion of the … read more
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs. Farida Waziri, has charged officials of the commission to make discipline, integrity and commitment to their fatherland their watchwords in the discharge of their duties. She gave the charge at … read more
MORE than one million Nigerians are blind and another 3.1 million are visually impaired, a national survey conducted by the Federal Ministry of Health has revealed. The survey also revealed that at least 75 per cent of such blindness is … read more
Militants in the Niger Delta region of the country have said that they would be holding on to three foreign hostages “because of security concerns,” even as they claimed to have released 19 Nigerian hostages in their custody. In a … read more