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
Soldiers were yesterday drafted to the Rivers State Government House as the exchange of gunfire between rival cultists which has characterised daily life in Port Harcourt, the state capital, since Tuesday continued last night. The soldiers were seen in front … read more
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
Barely two weeks after the abduction of the mother of the Speaker of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, eleven Years old Son of the Deputy Chief Whip of the Assembly, Master Daniel Benjamin, was yesterday abducted in broad day … read more
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
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 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
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
(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
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