At least 30 people are feared killed in a multi-vehicle traffic accident on the Ife-Ibadan expressway in southwest Nigeria, a road safety official said Tuesday. Halilu Baba, head of the Osun State Command of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), … read more
Nigeria has fired two top aviation officials for helping drug traffickers evade security at its international airport, the aviation minister said on Friday. The pair were dismissed after closed-circuit television showed staff allowing traffickers to pass through secure doors at … read more
Nigeria has announced election dates for next year’s general elections which are set to usher in a new president for the country Nigeria has announced the general elections date as between April 7 and 29 April next year. According to … read more
Militants suspected to be Ijaw in Delta State, have prevented repair work on the pipeline conveying crude oil to Warri and Kaduna refineries. This development dashed the hope of early resumption of operations in the two crude oil refining plants, … read more
Fresh from defeating a bid to keep President Olusegun Obasanjo in power, Nigerian lawmakers on Wednesday threatened to impeach him if he shows any sign of trying to derail elections next year. Obasanjo, a 69-year-old former military ruler, said last … read more
The following report was received from a network source. The event happened yesterday “Received a report of an attack last night at around 2030hrs on VI. Motorists were attacked by gunmen shooting at random into cars. One expat (Indian origin) … read more
Shell ordered to pay $ 1.5 billion. A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt Rivers State has ordered Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) to pay the sum of $ 1.5 billion to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), latest … read more
Akin is, like many things in cyberspace, an alias. In real life he’s 14. He wears Adidas sneakers, a Rolex Submariner watch, and a kilo of gold around his neck. Akin, who lives in Lagos, is one of a new … read more
Royal Dutch Shell (RDSA) isn’t going to meet a Nigerian court-ordered deadline of Monday and pay $1.5 billion in environmental compensation damages to local communities because of the company’s appeal on the long-simmering matter, a Shell spokesman in Nigeria said … read more
TEN days after the fuel pipeline fire that claimed over 500 lives in the rural areas of Lagos, the state government is considering taking legal action against those it considers responsible, including the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and the Federal … read more