The factional leader of a powerful Nigerian rebel group in the oil-producing Niger Delta is being detained in Angola on arms trafficking charges, his wife told Reuters on Saturday. The arrest on Sept. 3 of Henry Okah, who heads a … read more
Vice President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday hosted the first exploratory meeting to kick start the process for holding the Niger Delta Summit. The meeting had the Ogoni ethnic nationality in attendance. The Ogonis at the meeting endorsed the federal government’s comprehensive … read more
President Umaru YarAdua and other top Nigerian government officials will be in New York on Sunday where they will attend United Nations General Assembly meetings, Empowered Newswire has reported. Yar’Adua who is making his first official trip to both the … read more
STRONG opposition is coming from state governments and tax consultants against the call by the Joint Tax Board (JTB) on the governments to stop the use of tax consultants to generate internal revenues. Indeed, the tax consulting firms, said to … read more
SENATORS and House of Representatives members from Rivers State, kicked, yesterday, against Monday�s call for emergency rule in the state by some Niger Delta elders. They dismissed such calls as parochial, self-centred, and politically-motivated and said the main challenge was … read more
(AFP) – The presumed head of the Nigerian armed group the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta — who goes under the name of Jomo Gbomo — has been arrested in Angola, sources said Friday. Nigerian security sources … read more
Pandemonium broke out yesterday morning as the Joint Task Force (JTF) engaged suspected cultists in a gun duel at Aba road after they intercepted their vehicle laden with arms and ammunition. Those arrested during the raid and subsequent shoot-out were … read more
FOLLOWING a bomb scare at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, on Thursday, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has asked all security agencies at the airport to be more alert. Mr. Akin Olukunle, General Manager, Public Affairs, FAAN … read more
Niger Delta HIV and AIDS Prevention Initiative, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has described Niger Delta region as the worst hit by the dreaded disease in Nigeria. The group�s Executive Director, Mr. Dan Sagay, disclosed this to Daily Independent in Warri, … read more
The new Domestic Wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA2) has come alive as Aero Contractors and Chanchangi Airline Limited begin operations at the new complex. Also, airline operators, banks and other business organisations are jostling to occupy the remaining … read more