The $3bn gas gathering projects of Chevron Nigeria Limited, scheduled for September may be delayed, due to the sharp disagreement with the Itsekiri host community. Already, the Ugborodo community in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State, has threatened … read more
A Pakistani, Mr Mohammed Tahir, a construction worker for Gitto Construction Company, kidnapped in Ogoniland, was yesterday released after more than four weeks in captivity. Also released was the Operations Supervisor with Elf Oil, Peter Agwuna, kidnapped on August 1 … read more
All waterfront buildings and shacks in Nigeria’s oil capital, Port Harcourt are to be demolished, officials say. Rivers State government says the shacks have become hideouts for the armed militants who are behind the violence in the oil-rich Niger Delta. … read more
MOVEMENT for Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) yesterday, said it had uncovered plan by Nigerian security agencies in connivance with the Presidency to decimate some Ijaw communities in the Niger-Delta, warning that militants would resume fresh hostilities if the plot … read more
FORMER governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha yesterday returned to the country from Dubai, United Arab Emirate (UAE) where he had undergone treatment. Alamieyeseigha who arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja aboard Emirate airline flight about 3.30pm … read more
Nigeria loses $14 billion a year to the highly lucrative and illegal business of oil bunkering, the President of the Corporate Council on Africa, Stephen Hayes has said. Hayes who spoke to THISDAY in Washington DC arrived at the figure … read more
The management board of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will meet today to decide the next line of action on the suspended naira policy announced last Friday by the Federal Government. According to a top source in the apex … read more
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has terminated the multi-million dollar crude oil contract it signed with Kenya Ministry of Energy over �ripples� which the lucrative deal was causing between the state-owned National Oil Corporation of Kenya (NOCK) and the … read more
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has denied involvement in any move to intervene in the crisis currently engulfing the Niger Delta region. The Publicity Secretary of the Pro-National Conference Organisations, Mr. Wale Okuniyi, had in a statement on Wednesday claimed … read more
The military on Sunday announced that it has uncovered fresh plots by three cult groups in Rivers State to blackmail it and raise public sentiment against its men in the on-going hunt for cultists involved in the recent mayhem in … read more