Twenty-four hours after members of the Move-ment for the Emancipa-tion of the Niger Delta (MEND) attacked the Central Police Station in Port Harcourt to secure the release of their detained leader, Sobomabo George, the state police command yesterday said it … read more
The Federal Government has sent for testing samples from 14 persons, including three who are dead, for possible bird flu. Samples from a mother and daughter who died in Lagos and a woman who died in Taraba State after suffering … read more
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria has threatened to stop work at oil pumping stations and export terminals in the Niger Delta by February 5 unless the government could guarantee their safety. PENGASSAN, the union for … read more
Fierce-looking riot policemen on Monday morning took over some parts of the Port Harcourt metropolis, turning away vehicles and pedestrians from the roads, as they began a frantic search for the militants who attacked them on Sunday. Our correspondent gathered … read more
Fears heightened on Sunday over the health condition of the 24 Filipinos allegedly being held by Ijaw militants in the creeks of Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State. Report available to our correspondent on Sunday indicated that … read more
The main militant group in Nigeria’s restive, oil-rich south said dozens of its heavily armed forces raided a prison Sunday and freed one of their leaders. Officials in the oil-industry center of Port Harcourt confirmed there was a prison break, … read more
THE Action Congress (AC), yesterday, warned of the imminent release of President Olusegun Obasanjo�s last joker against Vice-President Atiku Abubakar with a plot to stop him as the party�s presidential candidate through the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The party … read more
THERE were strong indications yesterday that Nigeria may soon be at the threshold of another round of health pandemic, following the discovery of Influenza Virus Type A (Avian Influenza) in samples obtained from some suspected human victims. An official of … read more
MEN of the State Security Service (SSS) in Delta State, yesterday, raided the Warri and its environs of a supposed militant, suspected to have been involved in the January 20 kidnap of the 24 Filipinos by the Movement for the … read more
THE Rivers State Governor, Peter Odili has called for the enhancement of the Nigerian Navy to enable it effectively deal with the growing spate of hostage taking and vandalisation of the nation’s oil facilities in the Niger Delta. Odili’s advice … read more