News Desk (Nigeria) Monday, August 4, 2008

26 confirmed dead in Rivers cult clash

The army, yesterday, confirmed the death of 20 cultists in an exchange of gunfire between soldiers and the cultists at Nembe waterfront in Rivers State on Friday night, thus bringing the death toll in the cult clash that started on Tuesday to 26. MORE>>>

Africans in UK, others urge global support for N'Delta

Mobilisation of support in Nigeria and abroad for the Niger Delta people's quest for a greater share of the region's resources and its development gathered pace in the United Kingdom (UK) at the weekend...MORE>>>

British warhips not for N’Delta – Navy

Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ganiyu Adekeye has dismissed the insinuation that the warships offered Nigeria by British are intended for the Niger Delta. MORE>>>

FAKE ESPIRIT DE’CORP

The widely acclaimed hostility suffered by the relatively young National Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in the hands of the Nigeria Police was, again manifested recently in Abuja...MORE>>>

‘Why Nigeria will handover Bakassi to Cameroun’

The Chief of Naval Staff, Vice-Admiral Ganiyu Adekeye, has said that the country will handover the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroun in the interest of good neighbourliness and to avoid sanctions from the United Nations. MORE>>>

29 condemned Nigerians in Thailand, Afghanistan get reprieve

Reliable sources at the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja that 23 convicts were on death row in Thailand and six in Afghanistan. MORE>>>

Abuja: Trailer crushes 15 to death

It was yet another day of horror in Abuja, yesterday, as an articulated Julius Berger trailer carrying container rammed into an 18-seater Toyota Hiace commercial bus killing about 15 passengers on the spot and injuring scores of others. MORE>>>