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Militants repeat attack warning to firm

Nigeria�s main militant group yesterday repeated its warning that it will target foreign workers with the country�s biggest construction firm if it does not halt operations in the capital Abuja in the next 24 hours. The Movement for the Emancipation … read more

FG Bans Domestic Flights From Lagos Int’l Airport

With effect from midnight today, the Federal Government will no longer tolerate domestic flight operations from the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos. The government has accordingly advised all intending domestic air passengers to use only the domestic airport terminals. … read more

Accidents: FRSC takes on Julius Berger

The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) said Friday that it would thenceforth not accept the use container trucks by construction giant, Julius Berger Nigeria Plc in transporting its staff to their respective construction sites. The FRSC Corp Marshal, Osita Chidoka … read more

Police to MEND: Come to Abuja and die

IN what appears a conscious security measure to check the recent threat of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) to bomb Abuja, the Nigerian Police during the week issued a strong warning saying that such an … read more

�Militants in secret meeting in Aso Rock�

Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples� Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, has alleged that some groups of militants from the Niger Delta region meet often with officials of the presidency in Abuja. Alhaji Dokubo-Asari in an exclusive interview with … read more

Top Nigerian development official arrested

Police on Friday arrested the head of a federal agency charged with developing Nigeria’s impoverished southern oil region after allegations the man spent millions of dollars on a witch doctor in hopes vanquishing a rival. President Umaru Yar’Adua announced Friday … read more