The 4 Brigade of Nigerian Army in Benin says it has carried out 592 anti-oil bunkering raids and destroyed 98 illegal refineries in the last one month.The Brigade Public Relations Officer, Capt. Abubakar Abdullahi, made the development known at the destruction site of two truckloads of illegally refined petroleum products in Benin on Thursday.Abdullahi said…
Former Minister of External Affairs, Senator Ike Nwachukwu, was yesterday appointed as the leader of delegates of the South-east geo-political zone to the National Conference billed to be inaugurated by President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday next week. Briefing journalist at the end of a four-hour closed door meeting of the South-east governors and delegates to…
Former Ogun State governorship aspirant on the platform of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Mr. Kayode Soyinka, has advised Yoruba delegates to the National Conference, not to push the case for the possible break away of Yorubaland from the Nigerian federation too far. He said the Yorubas should be more cerebral in their…
Another mighty iroko has fallen with the death of erudite diplomat, internationally renowned publisher and one-time President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Ambassador Ralph Uwechue. Uwechue, according to a reliable source close to his family, died earlier today, aged 80. Though his death is yet to be formally announced, tributes are already pouring in for the…
Details have emerged of the dastardly attack on villages in Katsina State, north-western Nigeria, which took place this afternoon.
FEW days after Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue state escaped death when his convoy ran into an ambush by suspected Fulani mercenaries at Tse-Akanyi in Guma local government area, his entire village at Anyii in Logo local government area has been sacked by the suspected mercenaries. The invaders also slaughtered over 22 persons whose corpses,…
Former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, has charged British entrepreneurs to take the lead in investing in Nigeria.Gowon, who identified many areas of strategic partnership between both nations, made the call in London at the Nigerian Business Roundtable organised by the UK Institute of Director as part of the Commonwealth Day celebration.He said both…
The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers has said that it will resist plans by the Federal Government to privatise the country’s refineries.The President, NUPENG, Mr. Achese Igwe, said in a statement, “NUPENG takes serious exception to the comments made by the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Deziani Alison-Madueke, that the nation’s refineries…
The Police in Bayelsa have rescued Chief Nengite Nitabai, 70, PresidentGoodluck Jonathan’s uncle kidnapped on Feb. 23.Mr Hilary Okara, Commisioner of Police in the State, confirmed thedevelopment in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria inYenagoa on Thursday.He said Nitabai was freed in Odioma community in Brass Local GovernmentArea of Bayelsa.Nitabai, a community…
The Northern Elders Forum has dismissed the National Conference, which is planned to commence next week, saying it “lacks a constitutional basis or any form of legitimacy or authority to speak for the people of the North or other Nigerians.”In a declaration adopted at the end of its meeting in Kano on Tuesday, the group…