About four persons were feared dead while several others sustained various degrees of injuries during a stampede caused by a fire outbreak that occured at the Chemical Market, Onitsha, Anambra State commercial hub. The incident, LEADERSHIP gathered occurred at about Read more…
A group of four widows who had sought to hold Shell liable for damages in the Netherlands after their anti-oil activist husbands were executed by the Nigerian government in 1995 have cancelled further legal proceedings, their lawyer said on Monday. Read more…
Ukraine “grossly violated” the Istanbul agreement on grain exports via the Black Sea and forced Moscow to suspend it indefinitely, Russia’s envoy to the UN Vassily Nebenzia told the Security Council on Monday. The Russian Navy will inspect all cargo Read more…
It is the rarest of stories. A fix for an environmental disaster that is actually working. Oil spill after oil spill has turned the Niger Delta, in southern Nigeria, into one of the most polluted places on Earth. It’s extremely Read more…
Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Anambra Central Senatorial District for the 2023 polls, Chief Kodilichukwu Okelekwe, on Friday, appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to offer special support to the victims of flood disaster in Anambra State. This, Read more…
German authorities doubt the Nord Stream 2 pipeline can be used for gas supplies following the explosions in September that fractured one of its strings, Der Spiegel reported on Thursday. “It is very likely that the act of sabotage with Read more…
Ukrainians who have fled the country amid Russia’s military offensive should not return home before spring, Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk said on Tuesday. Staying away would protect them from unnecessary risk and help the country “survive” its deepening energy Read more…
Ukraine is facing its harshest ever winter, which will be marked by ongoing blackouts, Yuri Vitrenko, the head of the state-owned energy giant Naftogaz, has said In an interview with German outlet Handelsblatt, published on Monday, Vitrenko claimed that “about Read more…
A network of illegal oil pipelines being unearthed in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region has revealed the extent of oil theft in the country, astounding even the most cynical about Nigeria’s obscure but hugely lucrative oil industry. In Delta state, thieves Read more…
The presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, has visited Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital on a solidarity visit over the ravaging flood in the State. Obi, who flew into the State in an helicopter, said what he Read more…
The devastating flood in Bayelsa State has hit the Otuoke community in Ogbia Local Government area of the state, causing homes, churches and farm lands to be submerged.A visit to the community yesterday through a private canoe service showed that Read more…
A landslide has hit the Oko community in Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State, as lands and houses fell into a slope. Our correspondent gathered that the landslide occured close to the Federal Polytechnic, Oko. Oko is also Read more…