Niger Delta Militant Group Bombs Conoil Facility

A Niger Delta militant group that styles itself Koluama Seven Brothers on Sunday said it carried out a “warning” strike on an oil facility owned by energy company Conoil in Bayelsa. The attack was carried out on Friday, by the new group  at 12:20 a.m. on Jan. 4 at Conoil’s Angle 2 Field. The group said…

Read More

Publish ‘names of contractors that disappeared with money for power projects’, SERAP tells Fashola

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a Freedom of Information request to Babatunde Fashola, SAN, Minister of Power, Works and Housing urging him to use his good offices and leadership position to “urgently provide information on specific names and details of contractors and companies that allegedly collected money for electricity projects but failed to execute…

Read More

Buhari not my relation, Zakari speaks

Mrs Amina Zakari, accused by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has described as false, the allegation that she is a relation of President Muhammadu Buhari. The Chairman of the INEC Committee on Collation Centre for the general elections, said: “President Muhammadu Buhari is my President as [he is] everybody else’s President. “He is not…

Read More

Why Atiku Must Bow Out Now – Keyamo

Festus Keyamo, Director, Strategic Communications,APC Presidential Campaign Council has urged Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the main opposition presidential candidate to quit the race now, as investors in 9Mobile and Keystone Bank punctured the share-grabbing allegation against the Buhari family. Keyamo made the call Wednesday in a statement titled: We call on Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to retain…

Read More