Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has alerted that President Olusegun Obasanjo is not ready to leave office in May this year. Speaking in the Housa service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) monitored in Kaduna yesterday, Atiku urged Nigerians to … read more
A Belgian man working for a building materials company has been murdered in the oil city of Warri, in Nigeria’s lawless Niger Delta, and two suspects have been arrested, police said on Sunday. The police commissioner of Delta state, where … read more
Fifty militants on Sunday fought a gunbattle with Nigerian security forces and torched police headquarters in Port Harcourt in the oil-producing Niger Delta to free one of their leaders. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said … read more
The Lagos State police command on Friday declared that it had put all necessary safety pre-cautions on ground to ensure a hitch- free flag off of the presidential campaign of the Peoples� Democratic Party in the state. The declaration was … read more
The Philippines has asked Nigeria to abandon attempts to rescue 24 Filipinos kidnapped from a ship in the Niger Delta, fearing that such efforts could further endanger their lives. �We want to put our Filipino seafarers out of harm�s way, … read more
Nine Chinese oil workers are missing after an armed attack on their company in south Nigeria, China’s foreign ministry confirmed “On Jan 25, a Chinese petrochemical company in south Nigeria was attacked by unidentified armed men. Nine Chinese staff went … read more
Nigeria has formally handed over a 54.87 stake it held with France in Peugeot Automobile of Nigeria (PAN) to the firm’s new core investor, under a privatisation programme, an official said. . Nigeria divested 24.87 percent of its equity in … read more
Nigeria’s Supreme Court has ordered a lower court to hear a suit by vice-president Atiku Abubakar that seeks to restrain the president from sacking him for joining an opposition party, said court officials on Friday. Abubakar had approached the Court … read more
Ahead of the 2007 general elections, the Chief of Army Staff, (COAS) Lt. General Andrew Azazi, has reminded army personnel that they have a responsibility to ensure the internal security of the country during the polls so that nothing untoward … read more
The Nigerian aviation industry recorded a major milestone yesterday as the country witnessed the first 24-hour full radar coverage of Lagos and Abuja. Announcing this yesterday, Minister of State (Air Transpor-tation), Ministry of Transpor-tation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, stated that the … read more