Leader of the Niger Delta Volunteer Force (NDVF), Alhaji Mujaheed Asari Dokubo, has handed down two major conditions to President Umaru Yar�Adua for sustainable peace to reign in the volatile Niger Delta region. He wants the president to immediately convene … read more
Four persons were feared dead and scores of others injured on Monday in cult related clashes in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. Sporadic shooting was reported in several parts of the Garden City. The affected areas include Aggrey Road, … read more
IJAW oil producing communities in Warri South-West local government area of Delta State are at loggerheads over the ownership of oil wells in Ogbe-Ijoh kingdom While the Ogbe-Ijoh community said the oil wells belong to the kingdom, the Kantu community … read more
In his first two months in office, Nigeria’s shy, aristocratic new president has faced a nationwide strike, violence in the country’s oil region and accusations that he’s too timid for the job. But these challenges pale compared with the country’s … read more
THE Federal Government has evolved fresh measures to curb the excesses of local and foreign racketeers in the oil industry. In collaboration with a British university, the government has developed a fingerprinting device to identify crude oil from official sources … read more
Nearly three months after its operations were disrupted by sustained militants� attacks, the Indorama-managed Eleme Petrochemical Ltd., on Saturday resumed production at the plant, assuring of better services. But unlike before, the workforce and the company�s premises are now under … read more
The British High Commissioner in Nigeria, Mr. Richard Gozney, on Friday said that only 8,000 out of 28,000 Nigerians that applied to study in the United Kingdom in 2006 were successful. Gozney, who was on a visit to the Minister … read more
Flash floods sweeping Nigeria’s biggest city, Lagos, have forced thousands of families from their homes, residents and witnesses said. The flooding in the Ikorodu district of Nigeria’s commercial capital follows days of heavy rain, which caused a nearby river to … read more
EXCEPT the precarious security situation in the Rivers, Bayelsa and Delta States improves substantially within the next six months, there may be no expatriates working and resident in these states. This follows reported plans by oil companies and allied industries … read more
Pfizer has asked a Nigerian court to disregard an experts’ report into drug tests it conducted on Nigerian children in 1996 and which are now the subject of four court cases, the company said on Friday. The Nigerian federal government … read more