RETIRED Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Mrs. Faridah Waziri, was yesterday named Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) although in an acting capacity. Her appointment, announced by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Alhaji Babagana Kingibe, … read more
The Minister of State for Agriculture and Water Resources, Alhaji Adamu Waziri yesterday says Nigeria does not need to import food. The Minister who blamed the poverty situation in Nigeria on lack of proper coordination of NAPEP programme from the … read more
THE Federal Government has disclosed that the recent oil and gas reform would address the problem of expatriate quota and ensure its proper application in the petroleum industry. The Minister of State for Energy (Petroleum), Mr. Odein Ajumogobia, said this … read more
The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed a settled enforcement action charging Willbros Group, Inc. and four former employees with violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), alleging that they paid more than $6 million in undisclosed bribes to … read more
Four Nigerian villagers and an environmental group are demanding oil company Shell take responsibility for damage from oil leaks caused by its Nigerian subsidiary, lawyers said Wednesday. The letters sent to Royal Dutch Shell PLC accuse the company of negligence … read more
An unknown group of gunmen on Tuesday night seized a Chevron oil supply vessel, Lourdes Tide, with 11 crew on board. Among the crew aboard the vessel were Ukrainian and a Portuguese. The rest were said to be Nigerians. It … read more
Activities of petrol pipeline vandals have resulted in the country loosing a whopping N150.5bn in revenue in eight years According to a report by the Petroleum Product Marketing Company, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, 12,770 cases of … read more
The House of Represent-atives may not ratify the Green Tree Agreement between Nigeria and Cameroon signed by former president Olusegun Obasanjo ceding the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon. But the head of Nigerian delegation on the Cameroon-Nigerian Joint Commission on Bakassi, … read more
The police high command has deployed anti-terrorist squads in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt and Kano Although police sources told our correspondents on Tuesday that the action was aimed at checking violent crimes in the cities, a top security source in … read more
Senators have now washed their hands off the travails of their colleague, Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, in her case with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over her involvement in the N300 million scam in the Health Ministry. They acknowledged on … read more