Officials of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) would arrive Ogoniland today for a five-day exploration of the environmental situation of the area. The visit of UNEP is in response to earlier invitation extended to the organisation by President Olusegun … read more
Barely one year after the nation lost over 200 persons in two fatal air disasters, Nigeria yesterday witnessed another air tragedy in which an ADC Airline Boeing 737 aircraft crashed five minutes after taking off from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International … read more
Paul Smith has vowed never to go back. After 18 days as a hostage in Nigeria – during which time his wife Paula was told he was dead – he is quitting the African oil producer. The brutish treatment of … read more
Nigeria has revoked the license of the company whose commercial airliner crashed the day before leaving 96 dead, the country’s third major civilian air catastrophe in little over a year. Among those killed Sunday were the country’s top Islamic cleric, … read more
Nigeria’s new airline, Arik Air, will formally open the doors of its brand new CRJ900 aircraft to customers tomorrow, signaling a new dawn in the aviation industry. The airline, having successfully completed its comprehensive test flights and fulfilled all the … read more
DELTA State Police Command yesterday nabbed a fake Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) recruitment officer as they also nabbed vandals with caterpillar metres and oil well valves belonging to Chevron Nigeria Limited. These revelations were disclosed by the State Commissioner … read more
Worried by cut back in oil production and consequences on gasoline prices, Western nations appear to have opted for negotiated solution to the Niger-Delta crisis, in opposition to ongoing military campaigns in the region. Careful not to generate diplomatic crisis … read more
Federal Government has been advised to avoid releasing the result of the census conducted in 2006 before next year’s election, given the series of complaints that greeted the exercise, which therefore, put its credibility in question. In a statement issued … read more
A Nigerian airliner carrying 104 people, including the man regarded as a spiritual leader of Nigeria’s Sunni Muslims, crashed in a storm Sunday after taking off from the airport in Abuja. Most of those on board were feared dead, but … read more
Barely 72 hours to its commencement of operations, the Mana-ging Director of Arik Air, Mr. Alex van Elk and the Director of Marketing, Mr. Johannes Lampe have resigned their appointments with immediate effect over what sources have described as irreconcilable … read more