The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday rebuffed moves by 12 persons standing trial over the N300million unspent budget scandal in the Federal Ministry of Health to quash the charges against them. Former Minister of Health Adenike Grange, former … read more
Chinese experts would in the next three weeks arrive Abia State to begin discussions on the establishment of an industrial site in the state. The location of the site, according to the state Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Elder … read more
Oil fields abandoned by Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile, Research) in Nigeria’s Ogoniland in the Niger Delta 15 years ago will be given to another oil company this year, President Umaru Yar’Adua said on Wednesday. Shell closed its operations … read more
The head of French oil group Total said Wednesday the company was assessing its presence in Nigeria because of unrest there but warned that any pull-out would cause a surge in already record oil prices. “We have people who work … read more
Gunmen in Nigeria have kidnapped two Lebanese construction workers in the southern oil-producing Niger Delta and are demanding a ransom for their release, security sources said on Wednesday. The men were working for Setraco, a local engineering company specialising in … read more
Armed men have kidnapped two sons of the Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, Chief Goodluck Opiah. The boys, aged between 10 and 12, were said to have been accosted and taken away by the gunmen at the … read more
Warri Refinery was on Wednesday directed by the Federal Government to increase the supply of diesel by six truckloads per depot, as part of initiatives to stave off a national strike by oil workers. The government gave the directive after … read more
Seventy-eight (78) members of the Movement for Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) were yesterday arraigned before the Federal High Court, Enugu on an 8-count charge of treasonable felony by the Federal Government. The suspects were said to … read more
The National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association (IPMAN) are bracing for a fight with the government over back door hikes in the price of fuel. Diesel now sells for N145 per … read more
THE Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) on Tuesday said the N9,400 minimum wage was no longer realistic and proposed a minimum wage of N30,000. The congress, in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in … read more