The heavy military presence in the Niger Delta will soon be reduced, the Secretary of the Government of Federation, Ambassador Baba Gana-Kingibe, said on Tuesday. Delivering the opening address at the 9th gathering of the Gulf of Guinea Security Strategy … read more
A woman and her three month-old baby were kidnapped from their Port Harcourt, Rivers State home yesterday. They were abducted just as the wife of a Bayelsa State lawmaker, Dorothy Otele, who was kidnapped two weeks ago, regained her freedom. … read more
THE Presidency Wednesday continue its attempt at averting the planned nationwide strike by members of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) over Mobil Oil Nigeria (NON) Plc, to protest the sack of all unit union leaders … read more
AIR traffic engineers yesterday gave an account of their last contact with Beechcraft 1900D aircraft, believed to have crashed in the Obudu area of Cross River State. At the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, President of the National Association of Air … read more
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control in Kebbi State has raised the alarm over the circulation of imported killer mosquito coils. The state coordinator of NAFDAC, Mr. Fraden Bitrus, who alerted members of the public on … read more
Ten days after a light aircraft belonging to Wings Aviation with three crew members onboard disappeared without a trace, fears of imminent sack has engulfed senior officials of key aviation agencies, who are currently trading blames for their failure to … read more
The proposal by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to refine crude oil abroad deserves critical cost-benefit analysis. The General Manager, NNPC London Office, Uthman Mohammed, recently claimed that a proposal to undertake such operations in partnership withrefiners in Hungary … read more
SURPRISINGLY, common but preventable infections still account for about 57 per cent of deaths from all ages in the country, 48 years after independence. This is a wide increase from 38.2 per cent of deaths recorded from infections about a … read more
A probe by a Nigerian parliamentary anti-corruption committee that ended last week has uncovered serious evidence of fraud and corruption in the country�s power and energy sectors. The misdeeds were said to occur between 1999 and last year, during the … read more
As the world observe Monday (today) as the World Tuberculosis Day to create public awareness about tuberculosis, the World Health Organisation has identified the lethal combination of TB and HIV as a major threat to continued progress in the eradication … read more