A Nigerian court has issued arrest warrants for three members of staff from drugs company Pfizer over an alleged illegal drugs trial in 1996. The three are also accused of defying a summons to appear in court last month. Pfizer … read more
Minister of Transportation, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has revealed that facilities that will make the Port Harcourt International Airport to function fully will be put in place by the end of the first quarter of 2008. Speaking at the formal opening … read more
New facts emerging in the controversial N3.5 billion power project contract involving Dr. Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello have indicated that the Austrian company at the centre of the transactions may have a case of forgery to answer. M. Schneider, the Austrian company, … read more
President Umaru Musa Yar�Adua has commended Nigerians for keeping faith with the Federal Government in the past seven months as it grappled with the enormous challenge of moving the nation forward through the implementation of its seven-point agenda. In a … read more
The Power Holding Company of Nigeria owes the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and some other international oil companies N10bn being payments due from supplies made to the company over the last few years. A document obtained by our correspondent in … read more
After series of ransom demands by the abductors of former Vice Chancellor of University of Port Harcourt and Chairman of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission Chairman, Prof. Nimi Briggs, kidnapped two weeks ago, he has finally been released. Briggs … read more
There are indications that the Federal Government may have opted out of the One Laptop Per Child programme targeted at giving each Nigerian schoolchild one laptop at the expense of government. The Minister of Education, Dr. Igwe Aja-Nwachukwu, gave this … read more
Immediate past Minister of Energy, Dr. Edmund Dau-koru, and former Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NN-PC), Mr. Funsho Kupolokun, are among the scores of Nigerian officials interrogated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Comm-ission (EFCC) … read more
The acute power shortage being experienced across the country may persist as it emerged on Sunday that power sector operators, mainly the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, cannot afford to pay commercial prices for gas. The PHCN had blamed acute … read more
Nigeria�s former President Olusegun Obasanjo is reportedly under investigation for his government�s alleged involvement in a rural telephone project. This comes after the Senate announced it was investigating the former government for acquiring a loan of $500 million, earmarked for … read more