The coastal town of Agge, Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State was thrown into panic on Monday morning as soldiers in full combat fatigue besieged the town. The panic led to a near stampede as children and women fled. … read more
NOTHING so poignantly confirms the open frittering away of Nigeria’s resources than gas non-utilisation and this fact was again underlined when a Senate Committee yesterday disclosed that the country was losing $15 million (N5.8 billion) daily to the flaring of … read more
Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria, Moshi Ram, said on Monday that the interest of his nation in West Africa, especially Nigeria, might be attacked by Hezbollah terrorist organisation. He has, therefore, urged the Inspector General of Police (IG), Mike Okiro, to … read more
More deaths have been recorded in the restive Niger Delta as militants on Saturday night attacked the Logistics Base of the Joint Task Force in Bomadi, Delta State and a drinking spot in Onne, Rivers State. Apart from killing five … read more
The management of Nigerdock Nigeria Plc has rejected allegations leveled against it recently by the House of Representatives Committee on Privatisation and Commercialisation that it was using its jetty was being used by Niger Delta militants for gun-running and illegal … read more
THE army, yesterday, confirmed the death of 20 cultists in an exchange of gunfire between soldiers and the cultists at Nembe waterfront in Rivers State on Friday night, thus bringing the death toll in the cult clash that started on … read more
Ten days to the handover of the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon, Nigerians are relocating from the disputed area to Calabar and Ikang area of Cross River State, reports said yesterday. “If there were Nigerians still in the peninsula as at … read more
LAGOS residents on Sunday expressed worries about what would be their fate today as the traffic situation in the city is expected to worsen as a result of the partial closure of the Third Mainland Bridge. Some of the people … read more
After several months of reprieve, Port Harcourt city, Rivers State, lost its peace once again, as rival cult groups engaged themselves in a free-for-all that left eight dead. The renewed clash between two warring groups allegedly led by Soboma George … read more
LAGOS on Saturday witnessed an unprecedented gridlock as rehabilitation work commenced on the ever-busy Third Mailand Bridge. The heavy traffic jam spilled over to neighbouring states like Ogun and Oyo, as thousands of vehicles coming to the nation�s commercial centre … read more