The Minister of State for Niger Delta Affairs, Tayo Alasoadura has said that international oil companies operating in Nigeria owe $4 billion to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). NDDC is the agency responsible for fostering development in the Niger Delta, the impoverished wetlands region where much of the oil and gas industry is located. Read More…
Work has commenced on the System 3C and Alara/Adeshina collector drains to permanently curb the menace of flooding in the Majaro, Iwaya, Alara and Adeshina neighbourhoods of Lagos Mainland LGA. For this reason, the Lagos State Government, on Wednesday, rallied the support and cooperation of stakeholders and residents of these areas to sensitise them on Read More…
Nigeria’s Information Minister, Lai Mohammed has told the international news agency, REUTERS, that Nigeria may lift its ban on Twitter before the end of the year, Information Minister Lai Mohammed said on Thursday, that the government was awaiting a response on three final requests made of the social media platform. Mohammed told the news agency Read More…
A man who claimed to have a bomb in a truck near the Library of Congress has surrendered to law enforcement, ending an hourslong standoff. The man sitting in a black pickup truck outside the Library of Congress told police Thursday that he had a bomb, prompting a massive law enforcement response to determine whether Read More…
In picture above: A medical worker injects AstraZeneca’s coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine to a woman at the Nationa Hospital in Abuja, Nigeria March 31, 2021. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde/File Photo The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that in addition to the COVID-19 pandemic, Nigeria and other West African countries risk new outbreaks of viral haemorrhagic fevers, Read More…
A 50-year-old man, Akinbode Raphael, on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to the charge of stealing motor parts valued at N300,000, when he appeared before an Ikorodu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State . Raphael, whose address was not provided, was arraigned before the court for entering the premises of Primero Transportation company and stealing a cam Read More…
For allegedly attacking the Moserekogo community and causing malicious damage to various properties, a 38-year-old man, Fatai Oniwaya, on Tuesday, appeared before Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos. But Oniwaya pleaded not guilty to a three-count charge of conspiracy, malicious damage and assault. According to the prosecutor, ASP Rita Momah, the defendant committed the offences with Read More…
Gunmen attacked a project site in Assa, Imo State on Monday, killing a police officer, six employees of an oil and gas services company, police have said. The oil and gas workers were employees of the Nigerian oil and gas services company, Lee Engineering. Monday’s latest attack marks a crescendo of attacks on oil and Read More…
In a keenly contested battle, Opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema has won the Zambian presidential election. He defeated incumbent Edgar Lungu, the electoral commission said on Monday when releasing the final results from 156 constituencies, barring one. In the final vote tally, Hichilema secured 2,810,777 votes while Lungu was in second place with 1,814,201 votes, out Read More…
President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned Saturday’s ambush in central Plateau state of buses returning from a religious festival in nearby Bauchi state. In a statement issued on Sunday, the President described the killing of 23 people returning from a Muslim festival in neighbouring Bauchi State as a premeditated ambush. “It is clear this was a Read More…