The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said it will investigate the sale of oil acreage that was offered in open auction but subsequently sold behind closed doors. The EFCC�s Chairman, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, was quoted by the Financial Times … read more
Former England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson has been in talks with Nigerian soccer officials about taking over the country’s national team. Eriksson met officials about 10 days ago, said Tord Grip, who served as Eriksson’s assistant coach in England. “They have … read more
THE nation�s oil workers, under the umbrella of National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and its Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), have called on the National Assembly to probe the owners of … read more
ACTIVITIES were yesterday disrupted at the office of the Nigerian Agip Oil Company in Port Harcourt as staff of the firm embarked on an industrial action over failure of the management to pay them their security allowance. When Vanguard visited … read more
Delta State has dismissed claims that the boundary dispute with Ondo State over oil wells has been resolved, and has vowed not to concede any of its oil wells to its neighbours. The Commissioner for Lands, Survey and Urban Development, … read more
THE move by the Lagos State Government to rid Lagos of street trading and bring sanity to the metropolis is a step in the right direction. The painful reality is that hawkers have turned the city’s major highways into markets. … read more
Angry villagers who took over three Shell oil installations in Nigeria’s troubled southern delta region vacated the facilities Tuesday after a six-day occupation, a community spokesman said. Elsewhere, however, a group of villagers who occupied a facility run by the … read more
Nigerian photojournalist Abayomi Adeshida, 35, describes what he saw at the crash site of the ADC airlines which came down in a storm shortly after taking off from the capital, Abuja. I got to the site at about 1430 local … read more
FEDERATED Niger Delta Ijaw Communities (FNDIC) and other militant groups in the region, weekend, rolled out four conditions under which the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) will be allowed by the Ijaw to resume operations in the creeks of Delta … read more
RESURGENCE of ethnic militia activities in the Niger Delta has been viewed as an economic and humanitarian tragedy. A research fellow of the Centre for Advance Social Studies, Dr Sofiri Peterside who spoke weekend at a seminar organised by the … read more