Nigeria’s central bank has sold an undisclosed amount of hard currency on the interbank market to ease dollar shortages and provide importers the dollars to pay for the products they bring into the country, traders said on Tuesday. The naira … read more
Contemporary Nigerian arts, culture and music will be celebrated in London’s West End next month as Wakaa! – the hugely successful homegrown musical becomes the first of its kind to debut at the Shaw Theatre. This big, bold new musical … read more
Nigeria’s anti-graft agency on Tuesday charged former president Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign spokesman with corruption in yet another arrest of a top-ranking member of the previous administration. Femi Fani-Kayode, who was also a former aviation minister, was arraigned in an Abuja … read more
Nigeria’s army on Sunday said it had freed more than 5,000 people held by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram during an operation over the weekend in the northeast of the country. Nigeria’s army has over the last year, sometimes … read more
The dictate of democracy is that the majority, no matter how slim, carries the vote. This has been the case in the recent referendum held in Britain as to whether or not the country should remain in the European Union. … read more
Analysts had predicted that the stunning result of the British referendum to leave the EU would encourage separatists in Nigeria. Oil militants who have slashed Nigeria’s petroleum production with attacks on pipelines are calling for a referendum on breaking up … read more
Perth mining company Macmahon has revealed details of the harrowing ordeal seven of its workers faced after being kidnapped at gunpoint in Nigeria and held captive for five days. Macmahon chief executive Sy van Dyk told a media conference on … read more
Chairman of Nigeria’s anti-graft outfit, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has disclosed that the EFCCwould be clamping down on bank chiefs who are believed to be involved in money laundering activities under the guise of private banking. Ibrahim … read more
Lagos housewife Ifeoma Ibeh was preparing to make a stew when she noticed the pepper, onions and tomatoes were missing. One of her neighbours had sneaked into the shared kitchen and stolen them. She later tracked down the culprit, who … read more
Three Australians and a New Zealander kidnapped in a deadly attack in Nigeria have been released. The men, who work for Perth-based mining company Macmahon Holdings, were in a group driving on the outskirts of the city of Calabar when … read more