The federal government was on Thursday called upon to stop the on-going voter registration, in the interest of the people. This was the position taken at a press conference on the exercise organised by local governments in Alimosho Federal constituency … read more
Nigeria’s government has approved $148m to “reform” the country’s aviation sector after three recent air crashes. A “total overhaul” of the control towers of Nigeria’s 22 airports and installation of modern weather forecasting equipment has been ordered. These were recommendations … read more
The Federal Government has saved over N100 billion in salaries this year, by starving off imaginary staff, otherwise called �ghost workers�, in ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) under the on-going public sector reforms instituted by the present administration. The government … read more
One person died and three others were wounded in a helicopter crash near the capital of Nigeria’s south-eastern Delta state, said a National Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) official on Friday. NCAA spokesperson Samuel Adurogboye said the aircraft belongs to the … read more
A Briton, Mr. Martin Maddieson, and an American, Mr. Jim Brazel, held hostage by Ijaw militants at the coastal Ezetu community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, since last week Thursday, were released on Tuesday morning. The … read more
Officials of Italy�s Agip oil company went into talks Wednesday with representatives of armed protesters who took dozens of oil workers hostage and closed a flowstation in Nigeria and Forty-eight workers, all Nigerian personnel who were on the flowstation in … read more
Operatives of the State Security Services (SSS) yesterday, re-arrested four alleged kidnappers of oil workers on the premises of the Abuja division of the Federal High Court shortly after Justice Anwuri Chikere sitting in the division admitted them to bail. … read more
Foreign oil companies operating in Nigerian are reportedly interested in stepping up gas exploration in the Niger Delta in order to meet increasing worldwide demand. According to Austin Avuru, president of Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists, Shell, the leading foreign … read more
After months of speculations, former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, yesterday picked the presidential nomination form of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), thus ending weeks of sustained anxiety over the platform he would use to pursue his 2007 presidential … read more
Nine kidnapped oil workers have escaped in Nigeria’s southern Niger Delta, a senior manager from Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC) said on Thursday. The workers are currently receiving medical treatment at the company’s hospital in Port Harcourt, said the manager … read more