The decision by President Yar’Adua to nominate Justice Ogebe, the chairman of the presidential election petition tribunal, as a Supreme Court judge, less than a week to the tribunal’s ruling has drawn the ire of the opposition. Will it affect … read more
Both the Ijaw National Congress and the Ijaw Youth Council on Saturday threatened to hold the Federal Government responsible should anything happen to the detained leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, (MEND) in detention. This … read more
A Federal High Court in Lagos, yesterday vacated the interim order it earlier gave on January 31 2008, restraining the federal government or its agencies from effecting the relocation of Virgin Nigeria from the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed … read more
The Divisional Manager (Public Affairs) of Nigeria Agip Oil Company, Mr. Naaman Dienye, who was abducted while going to work in Port Harcourt last Wednesday, has been freed. A gang of unidentified gunmen had waylaid Dienye along Ada George Road … read more
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday ordered the Federal Government to allow relatives, doctors and lawyers access to the detained leaders of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta ( MEND), Henry Okah and Edward … read more
Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan has come under pressure from his Ijaw kinsmen to facilitate the release or trial of the detained leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, Mr. Henry Okah. The intense pressure on Jonathan to … read more
The controversy trailing the revocation of the sale of Nigerian Telecommunication Limited (NITEL) and its mobile subsidiary, Mobile Telecommunication Limited (M-Tel) to Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc (Transcorp) was yesterday laid to rest with the federal government and the management … read more
United States of America Naval personnel arrived the country on Thursday, to begin a one-week training of its Nigerian counterparts as well men of the Nigeria Air Force. Already three US Naval officers, Tom Garner, Gavry Ulrich, and a lady … read more
The Police authorities on Thursday in Abuja said that the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, Mr. Henry Okah, was being investigated for plotting to overthrow some governments in West Africa and theft of weapons, … read more
The ward and local government congresses of the Peoples Democratic Party started on a shaky note in Delta State on Thursday as members of the congress monitoring committee deployed in the state by the national headquarters of the party were … read more