Nigeria’s main opposition party, the ANPP, has said it will join the new government of President Umaru Yar’Adua. The deal comes after days of talks called by the president, whose April election victory was judged “not credible” by international observers. … read more
ANOTHER dimension has been introduced to the criminal act of hostage taking in Rivers State as a three-year-old son of a state lawmaker was abducted in Port Harcourt yesterday. Sources told The Guardian that the child, Master St. Michael Steward, … read more
CONTRARY to media reports, only three soldiers and two members of staff of Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC) were killed during a recent clash between troops and some militants at the company’s flow-station in Ogboinbiri, Bayelsa State, Brig-Gen. Lawrence Ngubane … read more
A Nigerian court has refused to allow more cases to be added to a lawsuit against a pharmaceutical giant accused of improper drugs trials on children. Pfizer lawyers argued in Abuja that the amendments had been improperly filed. The Nigerian … read more
The Vice-president Dr. Goodluck Jonathan yesterday called on well meaning Nigerians and companies especially those operating in the Niger-Delta region to give employment to youths of the area in order to discourage them from going back to the creeks and … read more
Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN) is unlikely to go back into Nigeria’s troubled Western Delta this year despite the area contributing around 500,000 barrels a day to the company’s crude oil production, a Shell executive said Tuesday. Speaking on the … read more
Ijaw warlord and leader of Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, has asked the Federal Government to refund N137million, being cost of the arms surrendered to Rivers State government by various militia groups before his incarceration. Asari, however, … read more
Armed military personnel drafted to the General Aviation Terminal of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja, last week, were yesterday withdrawn, following return of airline operators to normal business. The military personnel were drafted alongside policemen to beef up security at … read more
Three days after the Federal Government and Labour agreed to the pump price of petrol at N70 per litre leading to the call-off of the nationwide strike by labour, some marketers in Lagos, Abuja and other cities are yet to … read more
GlobalSantaFe Corporation today reported that the company, with the assistance of outside counsel, is conducting an internal investigation of its Nigerian operations, focusing on agents who handled customs matters with respect to a Nigerian affiliate of the company and whether … read more