Ribadu’s leave unacceptable to Nigerians – Clark, Akintola (31 Dec 07)
A former Minister of Information, Chief Edwin Clark, on Saturday joined other prominent Nigerians to urge President Umaru Yar’Adua to halt the speculated removal of the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Nuhu Ribadu More...
Beautification of Lagos to Gulp N1bn (31 Dec 07)
Lagos State Government has earmarked the sum of N1 billion for the execution of the various ongoing beautification and landscaping projects across the state More...
Bayelsa is Nigeria’s richest state (31 Dec 07)
The 36 states of the federation shared about N1.2tn between January and October with Bayelsa State emerging the richest on a per capita basis. More...
Govt lifts curfew in Rivers (31 Dec 07)
The Rivers State government has lifted the midnight-till-dawn curfew which had been imposed in the state since August More...
Military’s expose on N-Delta five ‘most notorious militant groups’ (30 Dec 07)
Entitled, “Strategies to stem out militant activities within the Joint Task Force, Operation Restore Hope area of responsibility,” the 26-page manuscript is the most insightful paper in recent times, detailing the names of the militant groups in the region, their leaders, weapons in their possession, location of their camps, how the JTF perceives their potency, their Achilles’ heel, how the military can overrun them and implications of military onslaught. More...
Taskforce Attacks Ateke’s Camps (30 Dec 07)
In what looked like a renewed offensive by the Joint Military Task Force (JTF) in Rivers State against the camp of the leader of Niger Delta Vigilante Movement, Mr. Tom Ateke, the Task Force yesterday uncovered three camps where the arms and ammunitions of the group are dumped. More...
Buhari, Gbonigi, Balarabe, others fault IG on Ribadu (30 Dec 07)
More public outrage on Saturday trailed the plan by the police authorities to send the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, on a study leave. More...
Militants release Bayelsa A-G’s father (30 Dec 07)
King Anderson Zidafamo, the 91-year-old father of the Bayelsa State‘s Accountant-General, Mr. Thomas Zidafamo, kidnapped by militants on December 19, regained his freedom on Saturday. More...
Lamorde, another EFCC big shot, sent on study leave (30 Dec 07)
The Director of Operations in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, is to join his boss, Nuhu Ribadu, on a compulsory one year course More...
JTF/Militants Clash: Rivers Declares Curfew In Okrika (30 Dec 07)
The on-going face-off between militants and the Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Okrika Local Government Local Government of Rivers State has provoked the declaration of a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the area. More...
Obasanjo Failed Nigeria - Falae (29 Dec 07)
The prevailing political crisis in the country has been blamed on the former President Olusegun Obasanjo, just as his eight years in office as the president was described as such that brought a ‘litany of woes’ on Nigeria More...
Rural Nigeria lights up with solar power (29 Dec 07)
Nigeria has launched a solar power scheme that will eventually light up as many as ten rural communities with no access to the national electrical grid More...
Soyinka, Gani Condemn Ribadu’s Ouster (29 Dec 07)
Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka yesterday strongly condemned the removal of Nuhu Ribadu as chairman of the EFCC, describing it as a contemptuous New Year gift, that constitutes an assault on the corporate integrity of the nation. More...
Villagers shield pipeline explosion victims from Red Cross officials (29 Dec 07)
Red Cross officials believed that some of the survivors were taken to secret locations for fear that they might be arrested for illegally scooping fuel from the pipeline More...
Corruption tsar sidelined (29 Dec 07)
Human Rights Watch tell Reuters that if Mr Ribadu's suspension goes ahead, "the day he leaves office will be the day the credibility of Nigeria's 'war on corruption' is entirely destroyed". More...
Yar'adua approves Nuhu Ribadu's replacement as EFCC Chair (28 Dec 07)
Umar Musa Yar'adua finally yielded to pressures from James Ibori on the removal of Nuhu Ribadu, the head of the EFCC. More...
Pirates Attack Mobil Vessel in Bonny (28 Dec 07)
Sea pirates defied security beef up during the yuletide, to attack a vessel at Hondol River in Bonny Local Government Area of Rivers State, belonging to Mobil Producing Unlimited and made away with the supplies More...
Host Communities to Get Pipeline Security Contract (28 Dec 07)
The Federal Government yesterday said it would award contract for the protection of petroleum pipelines across the country to communities hosting the pipelines, as part of measures to curb pipeline vandalisation. More...
Ribadu Asked to Go on ‘Study Leave’ (28 Dec 07)
It is no longer rumour: police authorities yesterday confirmed that the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, will be proceeding on a one-year study leave at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), in Plateau State. More...
Collapsed Building: Residents Seek Govt’s Intervention (27 Dec 07)
Residents of Aroloya Street, Lagos Island,yesterday, called on the state government to save them from imminent fire from the smouldering rubble of a collapsed building in the area More...
NPC Requires N14bn to Complete Census Project (27 Dec 07)
Director General, National Population Commission (NPC), Dr Wokoma Wokoma, has said N14 billion was still required to complete the Census 2006 project More...
Plot to Remove Ribadu Gets Messy (27 Dec 07)
The plot to remove the chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, may hit the rocks as the Federal Government is in a dilemma over the legal roadblocks it has to scale More...
Pfizer arrests sought in Nigeria (27 Dec 07)
A Nigerian court has issued arrest warrants for three members of staff from drugs company Pfizer over an alleged illegal drugs trial in 1996. More...
Dozens Die in Pipeline Fire (27 Dec 07)
A ruptured gasoline pipeline exploded in flames, killing at least 34 people near Nigeria's main city of Lagos as they tried to scoop fuel from the gushing leak, police said Wednesday. A witness said he saw 40 bodies More...
50 Die in Lagos Pipeline Explosion (26 Dec 07)
At least, 50 people were roasted alive yesterday at Adagbo village of Iru, Victoria Island local government Area of Lagos State. More...
Lagos, Ondo, others picked for nuclear power stations (26 Dec 07)
The Federal Government has selected seven sites for the construction of nuclear power stations for the purposes of generating electricity More...
Suspected militants kill 3 policemen in Xmas day attack (26 Dec 07)
Despite the 'Christmas ceasefire' declared by Nigeria's largest militant group, suspected militants early Tuesday stormed a police station in Rivers state, in Nigeria's oil producing Niger Delta region, killing three policemen, sources at the state police command said. More...
Attack On NNPC Jetty May Lead to Products Scarcity-Pengassan (26 Dec 07)
PENGASSAN has warned that if proper measures are not taken, last week attack on the NNPC Jetty at Okiriama Village in Rivers state, may lead products scarcity and social dislocation in this festive period. More...
JTF uncovers mercenaries in militants' dens (26 Dec 07)
SOME foreign mercenaries are believed to be undergoing training in militants' camps in the Niger Delta More...
Police to arraign 84 Merchant Navy personnel over secret military training (26 Dec 07)
The Police in Lagos yesterday said it would soon arraign 84 Merchant Navy personnel, now in its custody, for allegedly undertaking military training secretly, without approval More...
PHCN owes NNPC, oil companies N10bn (25 Dec 07)
The Power Holding Company of Nigeria owes the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and some other international oil companies N10bn being payments due from supplies made to the company over the last few years More...
At Christmas, Yar’Adua Promises a Better Nigeria (25 Dec 07)
President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has commended Nigerians for keeping faith with the Federal Government in the past seven months as it grappled with the enormous challenge of moving the nation forward More...
Iyabogate: Austrian Firm in Forgery Claim (25 Dec 07)
New facts emerging in the controversial N3.5 billion power project contract involving Dr. Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello have indicated that the Austrian company at the centre of the transactions may have a case of forgery to answer More...
PH Airport’ll Function Fully in 2008? (25 Dec 07)
Minister of Transportation, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has revealed that facilities that will make the Port Harcourt International Airport to function fully will be put in place by the end of the first quarter of 2008 More...
Pfizer arrests sought in Nigeria (25 Dec 07)
A Nigerian court has issued arrest warrants for three members of staff from drugs company Pfizer over an alleged illegal drugs trial in 1996 More...
Senate to Investigate Obasanjo (24 Dec 07)
Nigeria’s former President Olusegun Obasanjo is reportedly under investigation for his government’s alleged involvement in a rural telephone project More...
PHCN can’t afford cost of gas (24 Dec 07)
The acute power shortage being experienced across the country may persist as it emerged on Sunday that power sector operators, mainly the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, cannot afford to pay commercial prices for gas More...
Willbros: EFCC Quizzes Daukoru, Kupolokun (24 Dec 07)
Immediate past Minister of Energy, Dr. Edmund Dau-koru, and former Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NN-PC), Mr. Funsho Kupolokun, are among the scores of Nigerian officials interrogated by the EFCC over a $6 million bribe. More...
FG dumps One Laptop Per Child project (24 Dec 07)
There are indications that the Federal Government may have opted out of the One Laptop Per Child programme targeted at giving each Nigerian schoolchild one laptop More...
Abductors Release Briggs (24 Dec 07)
After series of ransom demands by the abductors of former Vice Chancellor of University of Port Harcourt and Chairman of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission Chairman, Prof. Nimi Briggs, kidnapped two weeks ago, he has finally been released More...
Militant attacks can worsen, Ijaw youths warn (23 Dec 07)
THE feeling for sometime now was that that there was something amiss in the negotiations between the Federal Government and militants in the Niger-Delta given the way the peace process was going More...
EFCC to Arrest More Ex-Govs This Week (23 Dec 07)
The Economic and Financial Crimes Com-mission (EFCC) may later this week arrest four more ex-governors among those who vacated office last May 29 More...
Obasanjo under probe over N59bn telephone loan (23 Dec 07)
The Senate is set to investigate why former President Olusegun Obasanjo obtained a $500 million (N59 billion) loan for a telephone project despite his government’s claims of rapid privatization of the sector More...
Militants ceasefire for Xmas (23 Dec 07)
* Rivers govt imposes curfew on Okrika
* Tom Ateke gives FG 7-day ultimatum More...
Yar’Adua Convenes Security Meeting on N/Delta (22 Dec 07)
Yar’Adua, yesterday, convened a high level security meeting to fashion out a new strategy aimed at halting the high incidence of kidnapping and lack of security in the region More...
Ateke Gives FG 7 Days To Replace His Burnt Properties (22 Dec 07)
Mr. Tom Ateke, leader of a foremost militant group in the Niger Delta region, the Niger Delta Volunteer Force (NDVF), has given the Federal Government a seven-day ultimatum, effective from December 21, 2007, to replace his properties More...
Okiro sets up fresh panel on Ige, Dikibo, Funso Williams, others (22 Dec 07)
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro, has set up a fresh panel to investigate recent high-profile murders in the country, in compliance with a recent directive by President Yar’Adua More...
Court Orders Fayose’s Arrest for Murder (22 Dec 07)
An Ekiti High Court, sitting in Ado-Ekiti yesterday issued a warrant for the arrest of the embattled former governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose over the murder of Mr. Tunde Omojola who was murdered at Ifaki-Ekiti on May 28, 2005. More...
Rivers Monarch, others remanded over kidnapping (22 Dec 07)
A prominent monarch in Rivers State, King Nemi Oputibeya X, was on Friday remanded in prison custody by a Port Harcourt Chief Magistrates’ Court over alleged kidnap of 11 Bulgarians and involvement in cultism More...
Ijaw group threatens to wreck havoc on Mobil's facilities (21 Dec 07)
THE Ijaw Freedom Fights, IFF, has issued Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited a 14-days ultimatum within which to commence payment of the communal claims in respect of their 1998 Idoho platform oil spillage or they would wreck havoc on their installations More...
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