The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday raided the Abuja residence of the Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello. A counsel to the senator, Mr. Adebayo Olanipekun, informed an Abuja High Court that the EFCC operatives stormed … read more
Workers of the Nigerian Telecommunications Limited on Tuesday embarked on a nationwide strike because of the inability of the majority stake holders in the company, Transnational Corporation, to faithfully implement the agreement reached with the workers about two weeks ago. … read more
Four people from a Seattle-based film crew and a Nigerian man accompanying them have been detained for illegally traveling by boat in restive southern Nigeria, officials said. Security forces fighting militants in the Niger Delta consider much of the vast … read more
And a few hours after signing the contentious 2008 budget into law yesterday, President Umaru Musa Yar�Adua travelled to Germany for urgent medical attention. He was said to have taken ill after the Jumat service on Friday. The President�s ill-health … read more
The total radar coverage of Nigeria�s airspace may not become a reality in the nearest future following the politicisation of the clearance of the radar components at the Lagos Apapa Wharf. The development is coming as the Nigerian Airspace Management … read more
THE Joint Task Force (JTF) on the Niger Delta, codenamed, Operation Restore Hope, yesterday, gave the Ogulagha and Odimodi communities a 48-hour ultimatum, which expires tomorrow (Wednesday), to produce the belligerents who bombed two oil wells belonging to the National … read more
Foremost Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark has criticised the Federal Government over its planned secret trial of the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, Mr. Henry Okah Okah and another MEND�s leader, Edward Atatah, have … read more
Nigeria’s Anti-Corruption Body, the Economic and Financi al Crimes Commission (EFCC), convicted 250 persons and recovered more than US$ 5 0 0 billion in cash and property in its five years of operation in the country, ac c ording to … read more
State-owned Nigeria News Agency says about 400 deaths have occurred from meningitis and measles outbreaks in northern Nigeria. Gilbert da Costa in Abuja reports health authorities are scrambling to stop what could become a major meningitis epidemic. Since the beginning … read more
As one of the leading oil-producing countries in Africa, Nigeria loses billions of dollars to the activities of vandals of petroleum products pipelines. The oil bunkering business is as old as the discovery of crude oil in the ancient community … read more