Following almost two years of declining exports due to militant activities, industry insiders yesterday said Nigeria’s crude oil output would increase by 500,000 barrels per day in 2008. Reports showed that workers are slowly returning to the forcados and EA … read more
Federal Government is considering burying petroleum pipelines 12 meters deep into the surface of the earth to check vandalisation, Minister of State for Energy, Mr. Odein Ajumogobia, SAN, said in Lagos yesterday. In London, also yesterday, the Board of Brass … read more
At least 33 people were killed today in Kebbi State in north-western Nigeria when two boats collided in a fiery accident on the Dole-Kaina River. Eight other people suffered serious injuries in the accident, said acting state governor Ibrahim Aliyu. … read more
Nigerian troops freed a British hostage in Nigeria’s oil delta on Friday after he had been held for almost two months, a military spokesman said. Spokesman Sagir Musa said troops had been sweeping an area close to the southern city … read more
(Reuters) – Nigeria charged two German men on Wednesday with breaching its Official Secrets Act and endangering national security by taking photographs and video footage of oil facilities in the Niger Delta. An American woman based in the delta and … read more
The President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, on Wednesday alleged that there were plots to oust him. Mark, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Communications, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, said his opponents in the Senate were … read more
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, on Wednesday launched a Security Trust Fund for the police. This, by law, is to take care of the funding and maintenance of the police unit on continuous basis. Fashola also on Wednesday, launched … read more
ACUTE shortage of firearms is militating against the efficiency of men of the Nigeria Police in combating crimes, the acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Mike Okiro, has said. Mr. Okiro disclosed this in Lagos on Wednesday while fielding … read more
ANOTHER round of industrail crisis capable of crippling commercial activities in Delta State is about to blow up as the Zonal Council of NUPENG and PENGASSAN yesterday threatened severe consequences if the management of Conoil/Belbop Nigeria Limited goes ahead with … read more
OVER three hundred Itsekiri graduates, early yesterday, stormed the Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) Warri office and sealed off its two premises just as they prevented staff from entering into their offices over CNL 2007 recruitment exercise where 97 other graduates … read more