Security was on Saturday tightened around strategic oil installations in the Niger Delta region ahead of the strike action planned by the Nigerian Labour Congress and the oil workers� unions. The workers are pressing for the reversal of some decisions … read more
FOLLOWING Thursday’s release of Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo by an Abuja High Court, militants in the Niger Delta have announced a complete ceasation of hostilities in the area. In an online statement yesterday signed by one Cynthia Whyte, the militants … read more
Gunmen attacked an oilfield on Sunday in Nigeria’s southern Bayelsa State being guarded by soldiers after nine militants were killed by the army in the same area recently, an official said. “The fighting is still raging in the afternoon,” a … read more
Gunmen kidnapped two Lebanese construction workers in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta on Friday, a military spokesman said. The two men, who work for Italian firm Stabilini, were snatched in Delta state in the western part of the anarchic wetlands region. … read more
Newly released Nigerian militant leader Mujahid Dokubo-Asari hopes to reunite splintered armed groups in the oil-producing Niger Delta around his radical agenda for independence, he told Reuters on Friday. In an interview hours after his release on bail, Asari distanced … read more
All twelve Indian hostages have been freed in Nigeria – they were seized by merceneries on June 1 in the oil city of Port Harcourt. Seven of them are employees of the Indonesia based firm Indorama and the others are … read more
Speculations were rife, yesterday over last minute moves by the organized labour to commence a nationwide strike from Monday next week if the Federal Government failed to listen to the call made by concerned Nigerians over the recent increase in … read more
TRAGEDY struck at Achohol Village near Aliade Town in Benue State yesterday morning as a Mercedes Benz 1414 bus conveying Mobile Policemen from Port Harcourt, Rivers State collided with a 911 truck, killing 27 of the officers and three civilians. … read more
The Movement of the Niger Delta People which claimed responsibility for taking the Schlumberger workers hostage has while hailing the release on bail of Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo said the stage was now set for negotiations on the release of … read more
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday ordered the release of the Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujaheedeen Asari-Dokubo, on health grounds. His release on bail came barely a week after some governors in the … read more