By Emma Nnadozie LAGOS – The expatriate Managing Director of Coastal Inland Maritime Services Ltd., Mr. Nicholas Anderson, last Friday committed suicide by hanging in his residential apartment in Ozumba Mbadiwe Street, Victoria Island, Lagos. Though no suicide note was reportedly left by the Briton, police sources said the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. […]

THE Delta State Government is to build new settlements for the Ijaw and Itsekiri communities in Warri South-West Local Government Area of the state devastated by men of the Joint Task Force (JTF) on the Niger Delta during its aborted Cordon and Search operation in the area.

By Tony Edike ENUGU – A quick response by fire service personnel at the Akanu Ibiam Airport, Enugu, yesterday averted what could have resulted to a major air disaster in Enugu, as an Embraer 120 aircraft with 20 passengers on board caught fire shortly before take-off. The turbo-prop aircraft, marked 5N-BLN and operated by Capital […]

By Omoh Gabriel, Business Editor LAGOS – Buoyed by the need to actualise the 6,000 megawatts of power supply in the country promised by President Umaru Yar’Adua, the Federal Government has released   N67.48 billion for power projects across the country in the first, second and third quarters of the 2009 budget circle. The releases are […]

By Dayo Johnson AKURE – The Federal Government weekend, linked the resolution of the crisis in the volatile Niger Delta to the fulfilment of the President Umaru Yar’Adua promise of increasing the country’s electricity power generation capacity to at least 6,000 megawatts by the end of this year. It equally denied allegation that the  Power […]