FRESH facts emerging on how Bayelsa State Governor, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, was chosen as the Vice Presidential candidate of the ruling People�s Democratic Party (PDP), suggest that the leadership of the party wanted a clean break with the past and … read more
Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), has resumed the process of privatising the Port Harcourt Refinning Company (PHRC). The privatisation agency said weekend, that it is seeking prospective core investors to purchase 51 per cent or more of the Federal Government … read more
The inability of the managers of the Petroleum Support Fund to pay marketers outstanding debts totalling N18bn has been identified as a major cause of the current nationwide scarcity of petroleum products. Other factors which contributed to the scarcity, according … read more
In Nigeria, the opposition All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) of former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari holds its convention Monday to choose its candidate for the April 2007 presidential elections. Sunday, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) picked 55 year-old Umaru … read more
Explosions tore through two oil-company facilities in southern Nigeria on Monday, officials said, as militants pressed ahead with a yearlong campaign for greater regional control of oil funds in Africa’s largest producer of crude. Two separate private security contractors, speaking … read more
Today Monday, December 18, 2006, operatives of the movement for the emancipation of the niger delta (MEND) planted tthree car bombs in locations strategic to the oil industry in the niger delta. The operative in one location reported a concentration … read more
The four men, three Italians and one Lebanese, taken hostage December 7 in the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria will not be released for Christmas, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), which is holding them … read more
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders yesterday had a long deliberation on who will be the running mate of Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in next year’s presidential election. The names of Rivers State Governor, Dr. Peter Odili tops the list of … read more
Nigeria’s ruling party on Sunday chose a reclusive Muslim state governor, Umaru Yar’Adua, to be its candidate to succeed Olusegun Obasanjo as president of Africa’s most populous nation in elections next year. Yar’Adua, the 55-year-old governor of Katsina state, beat … read more
Sixteen-year-old Brandy Liggins stood anxiously with her six siblings around the flight-departure screen at a German airport, frantically searching for their connecting flight to Italy. Call it survivor’s instinct, but Brandy had a feeling they weren’t going to Italy to … read more