Yesterday January 2, 2007 we discovered an outrageous attempt by agip to arrange the escape of the prisoners in our custody. Agip commissioned a fraud well known in the delta to effect this plan. It involved paying 70m naira to … read more
EIGHT people were killed and seven others wounded, three of them seriously, yesterday, after six gunmen allegedly dressed in Mobile police uniform fired sporadically into a gathering of youths at Rumuekini Community in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. … read more
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is to begin an immediate closure of fillings stations across the country that fail to sell petroleum products to consumers at the normal rate. The is coming just as the Federal Government has established … read more
Presidential candidate of the Citizens Popular Party (CPP), Chief Mazi Okwu, has urged Nigerians not to vote for candidates that had in one way or the other contributed to truncating Nigeria’s democracy through military coup. Okwu, former Chairman of the … read more
The year 2006 must go down in recent history as Nigeria�s year of extreme excesses, the year in which all absurd things took the centre stage. It was a year in which tragedy masqueraded as comedy, the one year that … read more
Vice President Atiku Abubakar of Nigeria has reportedly said he intends to return home from the United States where he is currently vacationing, despite rumors he might be arrested upon his return. Atiku is involved in a legal battle with … read more
The family of Cosma Russo, one of the technicians kidnapped on 7 December by the MEND fighters (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta) asked to the kidnappers the release of the hostages and said that that it is … read more
The four expatriate oil workers held hostage by the Niger Delta militants since December 7, are starting the new year with the armed men in the creek. The expatriates were kidnapped at the terminal of the Nigerian Agip Oil Company … read more
The current crisis in the oil-rich Niger Delta has cost Italian oil giant, ENI Group, some 50,000 barrels of its daily production in Nigeria. The Vice-Chairman/Managing Director of the Italian firm�s Nigerian subsidiary, Agip Oil Company, Mr. Antonio Panza, told … read more
LAGOS State Governor, Bola Tinubu, has said as part of efforts to curb rising crime wave, particularly the killing of notable citizens in the state, President Olusegun Obasanjo had approved a joint military-police patrol of the state. Tinubu disclosed this … read more