Former Chief Security Officer to President Ibrahim Babangida, Major Abubakar Adamu Mohammed, cautioned President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua not to remove subsidy of petroleum products in the country as being advocated by Minister of State for Petroleum, Odien Ajumogobia, recently, saying

President Umaru Musa Yar'adua's first official visit to the United Kingdom came without aplomb. It was as though the Nigerian

Banks have been urged to start lending schemes to buy new motor vehicles to reduce fuel consumption in Tanzania.

A relative of a regional ruler in northern Somalia's Puntland state has resigned from the Board of Directors of an Australian mining firm, which has a controversial contract to explore for oil in Puntland.

The first thing to keep in mind is that one endeavours to keel separate and distinct the following interlocking questions.

A Warri Chief Magistrate Court presided over by Mrs. Eli B. Osemwenbie yesterday ordered that the fourteen (14) Filipinos arrested for illegal bunkering by the Joint Task Force code named Operation Restore Hope be remanded in prison custody.

Chairman, Niger Delta Peace and Conflict Resolution Committee, Mr David Brigidi, has called for an immediate demobilisation, rehabilitation and reorientation of militants in the Niger Delta region.

THE Opposition parties in Ondo State have been allegedly fingered in the controversy over the ceding of 260 of the state's oil wells to Delta State. A Federal High Court recently ordered the ceding of the oil wells hitherto in

THE Acting Permanent Secretary, who doubled as the Special Adviser on Mineral Resources and Development in Lagos State, Mr. Agboola Blaise, who unequivocally displayed great depth of knowledge about mineral resources, spoke with Vanguard Correspondent, Olasunkanmi Akoni on oil exploration

The US under secretary of State for Economy, Energy and Agriculture, Reuben Jeffrey III, manifested on Monday, in Luanda, his country's interest in helping Angola in researching agricultural resources.

The Northern Regional Electricity Distributor (Nored) has renewed its recognition and procedural agreement with the Mine Workers Union of Namibia (MUN) at Ongwediva.

The Government has signed an agreement with a British Oil company, Tullow Uganda, to build a refinery in the oil rich Albert region.

Roundtable talks on the construction of the World's second largest and Africa's largest power project on the River Congo kickoff today in the DR Congo capital Kinshasa.

ONE of the few recent news items that should concern government and citizens alike is the increasing rate of divestment from Nigeria by leading multi-nationals in the petroleum and other sectors of the economy.

INDICATIONS have emerged that the Vice- President of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan would be commissioning the Nestoil ultramodern Engineering, Production and Construction (EPC) site later this month.

As the nation awaits the report of the House of Representatives ad-hoc committee on the power sector, one of the principal witnesses and former governor of Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke, has said that he was not afraid of

United States of America's under-secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agriculture, Ruben Jeffery, on Tuesday reiterated his country's willing of attracting investments into Angola, essentially in agriculture sector.

Fresh intrigues are sprouting round the report of the Power Sector Probe by the House of Representative as Mr. Donald Egberibin (Souther Ijaw Federal Constituency, Bayelsa State) told journalists in Abuja, yesterday, that the report was not yet ready for

Environmentalists are warning of dire consequences should the haphazard production of biofuels in Tanzania continue.

The government of Cote d'Ivoire has decided to cut the salaries of its ministers by half in order to fund a reduction in the cost of fuel.