The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) yesterday threatened to drag Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for economic sabotage over their alleged setting of oil wells in Ogoniland on fire. … read more
IT is not surprising that controversies have continued to trail the just-released results of the 2006 census which put the figure of the North at 75 million and the South at 64 million. And since the release of the result, … read more
THE Joint Task Force on the Niger Delta (JTF) says it has intensified its efforts to free 18 foreign workers taken hostage over the past months by militants in the Niger Delta. �We have stepped up efforts to locate the … read more
Workers were forced to trek to work in Calabar on Thursday as commercial motorcycle operators resolved to abandon the roads to avoid arrest by the police following Wednesday�s burning of the Atakpa Police Station. Findings by our correspondent showed that … read more
Three different sets of international hostages continued to be held by militants in Nigeria�s volatile Niger Delta region. They include nine South Koreans, five Chinese, and three Italians and one Lebanese. While the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta … read more
Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria on Thursday said that it had been denied access by Ogoni communities to two oil wells, which were on fire in the area. The two oil wells-Bomu 41 and 50 located in Gokana Local … read more
Tension has gripped Ughelli, headquarters of Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State, as the ultimatum given to the leadership of the community to produce the killers of a soldier and an oil worker by the Joint Task Force … read more
Nine South Korean oil workers who were taken hostage by gunmen in Nigeria have been freed unharmed, officials say. The attack took place on Wednesday at a Daewoo oil facility in the southern oil state of Bayelsa. A Nigerian worker … read more
In a cabinet reshuffle that saw him swearing-in six new ministers and a permanent secretary, President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday in Abuja relinquished the Ministry of Petroleum Resources which he had held for the last seven and a half years as … read more
Delta State Police Command said yesterday it recovered 305 rifles and shot guns from criminals and arrested 108 armed bandits. The arrests include that of a middle-aged man who paraded himself as a lawyer, and was caught trying to ferry … read more