Indigenous oil marketing company, Oando Plc, has acquired Shell Nigeria�s 49.8 per cent stake in two oil blocks for $625.7 million. Oando emerged the preferred bidder of the two deepwater blocks offshore Nigeria Oil Mining Lease (OML) in an international … read more
The rights of Nigerian prisoners are “systematically violated,” Amnesty International, a leading human rights advocacy organization, argues in a scathing report on the country�s criminal justice system. The report, entitled “Nigeria: Prisoners� rights systemically flouted,” found that at least 65 … read more
Nigeria’s prisons are teeming with people who have waited years for trial in cramped and squalid cells, an international human rights group said Tuesday. Most of the country’s tens of thousands of prisoners have not been convicted, Amnesty International said … read more
ABOUT sixty people were said to have died and buried in a newly-discovered illegal detention camp in Ojoo area of Ibadan. This brings to 62 the number of people alleged to have been tortured to death by the founders of … read more
THE apexpan-Ijaw social cultural organization, the Ijaw National Congress (INC) and the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) say they will hold the Federal Government responsible should any harm befall the detained leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger … read more
THERE are indications that supporters of President Umaru Yar�Adua are now gripped by fear ahead of Tuesday�s judgment by the presidential election tribunal in Abuja. Some chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) including two key cabinet members had converged … read more
A nephew of former Governor Peter Odili, Mr. Celestine Odili, was on Sunday abducted by gunmen on Ada George Road in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. It was gathered that Celestine, who had served as Personal Assistant to both Dr. Odili … read more
A representative of the dominant Ijaw ethnic group in the oil-rich Niger Delta called Saturday for the creation of two additional Ijaw states within the Nigerian federation. “We want two additional states to give us adequate representation in the country,” … read more
A tribunal in Nigeria has annulled the election of the president of the senate, David Mark. Mr Mark was chosen as a senator for Benue state in last April’s disputed elections, but now a local tribunal has ordered a re-run … read more
Royal Dutch Shell is set to complete the sale of its share in two offshore oil licences in Nigeria to a local firm that beat off a rival bid by China�s biggest offshore producer. Executives of Oando, Nigeria�s largest domestic … read more