AP) _ Kidnappers snatched the 3-year-old daughter of an expatriate worker as she was being taken to school Thursday in Nigeria’s restive southern oil region, police said. � The child taken in the oil city of Port Harcourt is British, … read more
(AP) _ Gunmen smashed in the windows of a car carrying a British girl to school Thursday and kidnapped the three-year-old, marking the first seizure of a foreign child in Nigeria’s increasingly lawless oil region. � In London, the British … read more
A massive explosion, caused by crude spillage from one of the tanks at the Warri Refinery yesterday resulted in an inferno that gutted part of the ailing refinery yesterday. Although no life was lost, vessels on the Ubeki Creek, including … read more
Chairman, National Po-pulation Commission (NPC), Chief Samu�ila Danko Makama, has said final result of the 2006 Census would be ready next year. Makama told the Senate President, Senator David Mark during a courtesy call yesterday, that processing of the final … read more
The House of Representatives yesterday set up a committee to investigate alleged delay in the execution of repair works of the Port Harcourt International Airport, alleging possible sabotage by some airliners. Honourable George Ford Nwosu (PDP) Rivers State while proposing … read more
Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, has assured the diplomatic community in Nigeria that hostage-taking in the Niger Delta will soon become a thing of the past, especially with on-going peace initiatives by the Federal Government. Jonathan said this when he received … read more
OPERATIONS at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos are currently being hampered by a fault in the radar system. The Guardian learnt that the fault, which occurred last Friday, was caused by an electric power surge, which blew the screen … read more
At least nine people were killed in fighting between rival criminal gangs in Nigeria’s oil city of Port Harcourt, the state news agency reported on Monday. The nine, including a woman who was hit in her car by a stray … read more
Dutch Oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, yesterday announced the resumption of full scale oil exploration and production in Niger Delta region after the multi-national firm left area following spate of hostage taking of its staff and youth restiveness … read more
The main militants group in Nigeria’s oil producing Niger Delta say it will not extend its month-long ceasefire which expires on Tuesday. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend) says it has been kept on the sidelines … read more