Gunmen kidnapped three Croatian oil workers from a bar in Nigeria’s oil city Port Harcourt, their employer said on Monday. The abduction in the city’s Iwofe district on Sunday night was the latest in a series of attacks against foreign … read more
As Nigeria prepares for April’s general elections, fears are growing about the rise of armed gangs in the oil-rich Niger Delta. The BBC’s Alex Last braves the slums of Port Harcourt to find powerful militant commander Soboma George, who tells … read more
After a long drawn voting process which lasted 27 hours, Comrade Abdula-waheed Ibrahim Omar of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) emerged the new President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). He secured 927 votes to defeat Comrade Fidelis Edeh … read more
FOR the second time in two weeks, the State Security Service (SSS), yesterday, took a second official of the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation into custody. Mr. Paul Ofana, special assistant to Mr. Timi Frank, the director of youths of the … read more
Kidnappers in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta have released an American engineer and his Nigerian driver held captive since January 23, authorities said on Sunday. Gunmen had seized the two hostages, together with a Briton, on their way to work in … read more
MANILA, Philippines — Even as the 24 Filipino seamen are on their way to the Philippines after their 24-day captivity in Nigeria, Labor Secretary Arturo Brion has said that the deployment ban to the African country would stay. The Filipinos … read more
A doctor was killed by a roadside bomb in Pakistan today as Islamist militants tried to halt a polio immunisation campaign which, they say, is an American plot to sterilise Muslims. Dr. Abdul Ghani was killed and three guards wounded … read more
A new President for the Nigerian Labour Con-gress (NLC) is expected to emerge today. Reports from the voting which continued late into the night in Abuja yesterday indicate that Abdulwaheed Umar, President of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) is … read more
President Olusegun Oba-sanjo yesterday tasked the Independent Nation-al Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct credible, transparent, free and fair elections in April, saying it remains the only guarantee for the survival of Nigeria as a democratic nation. The President who was … read more
Source: CNN The Nigerian government on Thursday canceled an advert it had placed on U.S. television channel CNN because of a report broadcast last week about militants holding hostages in the oil-producing Niger Delta. Information Minister Frank Nweke said Nigeria … read more