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Mike Hill – A Lost Friend

Mike Hill, the Briton whose daughter, Margaret, was kidnapped by militants in July, is dead. Mr. Hill, who worked with Lonestar Drilling, a sub contractor to Shell Petroleum Development Corporation, had been scheduled to travel abroad for medical attention on … read more

VP Makes Assets Public

Vice President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday made details of his assets declaration public. He put his total assets which he had earlier declared before the Code of Conduct Bureau at N295, 304, 420 million. The public declaration of the assets came … read more

Six Russians freed in Niger Delta

Six Russian hostages were freed in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta on Tuesday after two months in captivity, a state government spokesman said. The six, including one woman, were abducted on June 3 from the Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria (ALSCON), … read more

Nigeria blocks huge clinic deal

Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua has ordered the suspension of a multi-million dollar contract awarded by his predecessor Olusegun Obasanjo. The 18bn naira ($145m) contract to build health clinics across the country was awarded to a company believed to be owned … read more

Arik Orders More Airplanes Worth $1.7b

Arik Air has ordered for 15 new aircraft from Boeing at the cost of $1.7 which will be manufactured and supplied to the airline between 2008 and 2010. The managing director of the airline, Michael McTighe disclosed this yesterday during … read more

FG makes U-turn on EFCC, ICPC

The Federal Government on Tuesday made a U-turn on its decision to whittle down the powers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to prosecute people found to be involved … read more

1 Brit, 1 Bulgarian – Released

(AP) _ Kidnappers released one British and one Bulgarian hostage in Nigeria’s fractious southern oil region on Wednesday, while the young son of a local legislator was seized in a separate incident, officials said. Gunmen snatched the two foreign workers … read more

Police arrest 17 suspected hostage-takers

Seventeen suspected hostage-takers have been arrested by the police. The Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro, who made this known at a press conference in Abuja on Monday, neither disclosed the identities of the hostage-takers nor when they were … read more