Travelers going to or leaving countries in which the polio virus is still active should be immunized against the disease, and polio-free countries should require that proof of protection before granting entry visas, an advisory panel at the World Health … read more
Nigerian police killed one man on Friday when they fired into a crowd of supporters of the governor of the central state of Plateau who were protesting against an attempt to impeach him for corruption. Plateau is one of more … read more
Talks to resolve the dispute between Nigeria’s President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice-President Atiku Abubakar have been halted, the BBC has learnt. The confidential talks started last weekend and were proposed after Mr Abubakar was charged with corruption. Mr Abubakar is … read more
FOR three days, the body of a young woman whose age was put at between 17 and 20 lay along Apapa-Oshodi highway. She was discovered lying facedown on the median separating the service lane and the highway on Sunday morning. … read more
Militants released eight hostages including staff of the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) and military personnel on Wednesday at the Oporoma Community in Bayelsa State.They were released on Tuesday after the Bayelsa State Government intervened. Armed Ijaw youth barricaded an … read more
Users of the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos were thrown into a state of confusion on Wednesday when a rumour spread that the bridge linking the mainland to the Island had collapsed. Motorists going on either side of the bridge … read more
The construction of the $13 billion pan-African Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline is increasingly coming to threat with the festering Niger Delta crisis and the al Qaeda insurgent activities along the project route. The pipeline, which is a joint venture initiative by … read more
Armed youths from Oporoma community in Bayelsa State held about 60 workers of Shell Petroleum Development Company and some, military personnel hostage in the early hours of Tuesday during an invasion of the oil firms Field Logistics Base (FLB) attached … read more
Senior security officials in Nigeria are laying down strategies to limit the impact of militant attacks in theoil-producing delta, driven by the absence of a clearly defined political solution. Military officials who gathered recently near PortHarcourt, one of Nigeria’soil hubs, … read more
Oil companies in Nigeria are being hit with rising costs due to kidnappings of their staff that have become so commonplace in the volatile Niger Delta one Nigerian company is selling T-shirts calling it the country’s “fastest growing business!” But … read more