PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (AP) _ Troops patrolling the militant-infested waterways of Nigeria’s oil producing region torched two barges Friday after the boats were found transporting stolen petroleum products, police said. It wasn’t known if there were any casualties in the … read more
Crude oil exploration and production companies in Nigeria now face maximum sanctions of oil well or acreage seizure by the Federal Government for flaring gas in the course of production activities beginning from January 1, 2008. The Department of Petroleum … read more
Former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday took issues with the Senate over its call for a review of last year�s cession of the oil-rich Bakassi Penin-sula to Cameroon, saying the upper legislative chamber was being economical with the truth. The … read more
Delta State governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has raised alarm over the proliferation of small arms in the Niger Delta. He therefore called on the Nigerian Navy to map out strategies to wipe out the illegal small arms in the region. … read more
Another increase in the pump price of petrol may be under way given the strident concern being expressed by top government functionaries over the rising price of crude oil in the international market and what they call the concomitant rise … read more
Rivers State Action Committee on AIDS (RIVSACA), at the weekend, claimed that about 18,000 persons in the state have been infected with the dreaded HIV/AIDS. Project Manager of RIVSACA, Dr Chimezie Okeh, said in Port Harcourt that the figure was … read more
Suspected militants on Tuesday morning launched an attack on the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas facility in Bonny, Rivers State, killing two riot policemen and a private guard. This came barely a day after suspected militants in speedboats attacked Nigerian Navy … read more
Siemens AG of Germany has apologised to Nigeria for the embarrassment the �10m bribe allegedly offered to four former ministers and some public officials by its Nigerian subsidiary, Siemens Limited Nigeria, caused the country. The apology was contained in a … read more
The World Bank yesterday said that though indicators have shown that there has been economic growth in Nigeria, such growth has not impacted positively on the lives of the ordinary citizens. This, the bank believed, remained a challenge to the … read more
The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal on Tuesday rejected the request by the Action Congress presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to call European Union�s election monitors to give evidence of what they observed during the presidential election. His lawyer, Chief Emeka … read more