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U.S. spy chief warns of crisis in Nigeria

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

Elections may spur kidnappings

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

Ogoni Death Toll Rises

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

Two kidnapped Italians freed

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

Ogoni Boils Again, Eight Feared Dead

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

Atiku apologises to S�West over Obasanjo

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