Nigeria’s most prominent militant group on Saturday warned oil companies in the restive Niger Delta to withdraw their workers in the next 24 hours after security forces attacked rebel strongholds. UPDATE: Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa, spokesman for the military task … read more
(AP) � Militants fought a rare ground battle with Nigerian armed forces in the country’s southern oil region Saturday and threatened to launch reprisals on the oil infrastructure in Africa’s biggest crude producer. The Movement for the Emancipation of the … read more
The British High Commission in Nigeria said in a statement Wednesday in Abuja that exports from Britain to Nigeria was nearly 2 billion pounds between 2006 and 2007, reported the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday. Peter Stephenson, director of … read more
The cockpit data recorder (black box), flight data recorder and other important parts � which may help explain why the twin-prop Beechcraft 1900D owned by Wings Aviation crashed � have been found by a team of investigators from the Accident … read more
NATIONAL Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), has petitioned the President of Senate, Senator David Mark, calling for immediate demilitarisation of the Niger Delta region and adoption of a political solution to the lingering Niger Delta crisis. In … read more
CONSTRUCTION giant, Julius Berger is set to resume work on its projects in some areas of the Niger Delta. At the end of a meeting between governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and officials of the German firm yesterday the … read more
THE pang of poverty assailing Nigerians was brought to the fore on Wednesday with an official figure of 70 million people living in the country assessed to be living below N65 a day. This amount is about 48 cents below … read more
Two Britons, two South Africans and a Ukrainian were on board an oil supply vessel which was hijacked in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta on Tuesday, private security sources said on Wednesday. (Advertisement) One security contractor said unidentified gunmen attacked the … read more
President Umaru Musa Yar�Adua yesterday stepped up ongoing moves to revamp the machinery of his government with the restructuring of the federal ministries under which a Ministry of Niger Delta has emerged. Also, Aviation, Transport, Works, Housing and Urban Development, … read more
The Federal Government should declare the true health status of President Umaru Yar�adua as demanded by the public because it is a national issue, former Head of State retired General Muhammadu Buhari has said. Yar�adua reportedly underwent medical checkup in … read more