Fire yesterday wreaked havoc on the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) crude oil export depot at Ijalla, Warri, Delta State, when one of the tanks containing peel chemical exploded.

AS part of its corporate social responsibilities (CSR), the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) declared it has aided farmers’ cooperative societies, youths and women groups in its areas of operation with over N80 million as micro credit facility within the last four years.

Enugu—The police in Enugu State has paraded nine kidnap and robbery suspects, including two women, who were allegedly terrorising the state. The Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Zarewa, told newsmen during the parade in Enugu, that the suspects were members of the group that kidnapped four children at the Loma Linda Estate in Enugu. The suspects […]

A motion seeking to debate the state of health of President Umaru Yar‘Adua was quashed in the Senate yesterday just as the lawmakers said they would be a busy-bodies to send emissaries to inquire on the President’s health status at the Saudi Arabian hospital.

FOLLOWING incessant cases of kidnapping and in anticipa-tion of possible increase in crime rate during Christmas, security has been beefed up in Asaba, Delta State capital, with armed soldiers taking over the streets.