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The wooden fishing boat navigating Nigeria’s mangrove swamps is powered by a generator balanced above its volatile cargo. Shimmering crude oil fills its hull, almost indistinguishable from the polluted water in the creek. Here and there on the banks, people coated in oil wade through greasy mud in patches of landscape blackened and stripped of the thick vegetation...
PORT HARCOURT— BARELY one week after a three-day warning strike by resident doctors at University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, UPTH, hospital workers under the umbrella of Nigerian Union of Pharmacists, Medical Sciences and Professionals Allied to Medicine, NUPMTPAM, have begun another five days warning strike. The current strike by the union, which...
Detachments of soldiers and policemen on Tuesday morning battled to dislodge protesting students of the University of Abuja from some major streets of the federal capital. The students had taken their protest to the streets after UNIABUJA authorities shut the school. The authorities were reacting to the students’ protest, which disrupted activities in the...
By AUSTIN OGWUDA ABDUCTORS of Delta High Court Judge, Justice Marcel Okoh, have established contact with the family of the judge. Although both police and the family kept sealed lips about the details of discussions since the kidnappers established contact, it was reliably gathered that they were asking for N40 million as ransom. Okoh, a former Director of...
