The director of U.S. intelligence warned Tuesday of instability in Nigeria amid concern that outgoing President Olusegun Obasanjo is manipulating the political process ahead of April’s elections. Mike McConnell, who laid out global threats facing the United States for a … read more
Rival Nigerian politicians are arming militias in advance of April elections, in hopes of rigging the outcome and gaining control of millions in oil revenue at stake. Violence already has risen dramatically since the beginning of the year in this … read more
Rivers State Police Command on Saturday deployed no fewer than 250 riot policemen in Ogoni community to quell rising tension and killings resulting from communal conflict. The riot policemen, backed by an Armoured Personnel Carrier, took off from the state … read more
Gunmen suspected to be militants from the Niger Delta struck in Akwa Ibom State on Friday and abducted the Chairrman of Ikot Abasi Local Government Area, Mr. Aniefiok Ekong. The militants were said to have accosted Ekong along Abak-Uyo Road … read more
Vice President Atiku Abubakar has described as sheer stupidity alleged fresh plot to extend the handover date from May 29, 2007 to October 1. Also, he dismissed the fear that an impeachment motion against him may be moved in the … read more
If the obituary pages of Western newspapers pride themselves on sobriety, the opposite holds true in Nigeria. Nigeria’s major dailies carry dozens of technicolour full-page spreads complete with passionate declarations of love and photos of the dear departed, usually wearing … read more
Reuters) – Two Italians kidnapped on Friday in Nigeria’s oil city Port Harcourt have been released, Italy’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday. The ministry did not offer details. Italians Lucio Moro and Luciano Passarin had been working for construction company … read more
HOSTILITIES again erupted yesterday in the Gokana Local Council of Rivers State when irate youths from Bodo on an alleged reprisal mission invaded another community, Mgobo. At the end of the ensuing skirmishes no fewer than eight persons were feared … read more
Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, on Saturday, said that the country had witnessed the worst form of democracy and autocratic rule in the past eight years under the leadership of President Olusegun Obasanjo. For this reason, he apologised to the people of … read more
An Owerri bound Aero aircraft from the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja was at the weekend delayed for 86 minutes to allow security personnel carry out thorough search as demanded by passengers. THISDAY learnt that two of the passengers that had … read more