This advice has been reviewed and reissued with amendments to the Summary and Terrorism section (British nationals advised to leave Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers States, including Port Harcourt). The overall level of the advice has not changed. We advise against … read more
Gunmen late Friday kidnapped a Lebanese man in Nigeria’s southern oil city of Port Harcourt, police said Felix Ogbuadu, Rivers state police commissioner, said that the man abducted was Mohammed Ibrahim, a manager with Modant Marine, a shipyard service company … read more
The Nigeria Labour Congress on Wednesday said that it would soon embark on a long and total industrial action. It, therefore, advised Nigerians to start stockpiling essential items like food and make bank transactions from Friday (tomorrow). The congress had … read more
President Umaru Musa Yar�Adua has demanded an undertaking from Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan and other leaders of the Niger Delta region before he can release the detained leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujarheedin Asari-Dokubo. Our correspondent learnt … read more
Delta State Governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan, has ruled out the hiring of foreign conflict resolution experts as an option towards arresting the worrisome security situation in the Niger-Delta. Uduaghan, who stated this yesterday during his maiden press conference at the Government … read more
Former Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, agreed to accept a bribe in the form of a percentage in order to assist United States Congressman, William Jefferson, secure a business deal in Nigeria, according to the US Grand Jury report which indicted … read more
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who has been in the United States of America where he is recuperating from a knee injury he sustained while working out in his house, would be back in the country on June 14, 2007. … read more
The fuel scarcity being experienced in some parts of the country is expected to end today as petroleum tanker drivers have agreed to call off their strike and begin the lifting of petroleum products. Rising from a meeting convened by … read more
The Nigerian Navy has impounded and handed over to the police, six ships allegedly used by bunkerers to scoop petroleum products from Nigeria�s facilities in the Lagos area. The Chief Staff Officer of the Western Naval Command, in Lagos, Commodore … read more
The leader of an acclaimed militant group in Rivers State, the Niger Delta Vigilante Movement, Ateke Tom, said his group would cease armed struggle for 90 days to observe Federal Gover-nment’s seriousness towards enhancing the development of the Niger Delta. … read more