The stage appears set weekend for a showdown between the police and a coalition of Labour and Civil Society groups who have scheduled mass action and rallies for Tuesday. The action, to protest alleged fraud in the April elections, coincides … read more
The Department of Foreign Affairs said Sunday that no Filipino was among nine foreign oil workers abducted in Nigeria. Claro Cristobal, DFA spokesman, told abs-cbnNEWS.com in a text message that Philippine Ambassador to Nigeria Masaranga Umpa confirmed that according to … read more
THE commander of the Niger-Delta Freedom Fighters (NDFF), aka Egbema One, which kidnapped the four American oil workers of Global Industries, an oil servicing company to the Chevron Nigeria Limited on May 8 in Delta state spoke to Saturday Vanguard … read more
Gunmen on Friday seized a boatload of foreign oil workers, including three Americans, four Britons and a South African, in the latest violence to hit Nigeria’s southern petroleum-producing region, officials said. Nearly 200 foreign workers have been kidnapped in 18 … read more
Nigeria’s oil unions said Saturday they have suspended a two-day-old strike after the government met their demands over the proposed sale of two state-owned oil refineries. “We have suspended the strike,” Peter Esele, president of the senior oil workers union … read more
U.S. EmbASSY ABUJA U.S. Consulate General LAGOS NIGERIA May 24, 2007 Warden Message The Labor and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO), the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC), have publicly announced protests for both Monday, May 28, … read more
Ebonyi state government says the abductors of the two Chinese Nationals, suspected to be members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign state of Biafra (MASSOB) are currently demanding a ransom of twenty million naira before their hostages … read more
Oil workers, under the umbrellas of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Employees (NUPENG) and Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), in the employment of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corpora-tion (NNPC), the Department of … read more
About 5,000 policemen will provide security during the inauguration of Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar�Adua as president on Tuesday. The Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory Command, Mr. Lawrence Alobi, made this known on Thursday just as the Inspector-General of Police, … read more
MORE than a month after the 2007 polls ended, three persons said to be staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were on Wednesday caught thumb-printing ballot papers meant for the election at Igarra, headquarters of Akoko-Edo Council of … read more