Hope and Betrayal in the Niger Delta: The prestigious and influential National Geographic reveals to the world, in a comprehensive report, the problem in Nigeria's Niger Delta. It is the kind of stuff successive governments did not want the outside world to know. "The Niger Delta holds some of the world's richest oil deposits, yet Nigerians living there are poorer than ever, violence is rampant, and the land and water are fouled. What went wrong? READ REPORT FROM CFN

Shady and corrupt elite, led by General Ibrahim Babangida,  Mr. Tony Anenih and the former governors the EFCC is hounding over allegations of corruption, are at the forefront of those mounting pressure on President Umaru Yar’Adua to sack the EFCC boss, Mr. Nuhu Ribadu, considered to be an errand boy of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.