Three seafarers kidnapped from a Greek VLCC off West Africa earlier this month have been released. Aeolos Management said the men had been held since 3 February by a criminal gang in Nigeria. The Malta-flagged 281,000-dwt Kalamos (built 2000) was … read more
Thirty-one persons died yesterday in two separate suicide bomb attacks in Potiskum, Yobe State, and Kano with several others injured. An eye witness account on the Potiskum attack said a female suicide bomber alighted from a tricycle, opposite Tashan Dan … read more
From the moment earlier this month when President Goodluck Jonathan announced that Nigeria’s elections were being postponed by six weeks, voters have been holding their breath. The presidential poll, now scheduled for March 28, will be the most keenly contested … read more
A Seattle missionary and Seattle Pacific University alumna was kidnapped in Nigeria Monday morning. Rev. Phyllis Sortor has been working there for about 10 years. The veteran Free Methodist was taken by a group of people near the academy where … read more
Nigeria’s military on Monday said some terrorists disguising as women have been arrested following a thorough cordon and search in Baga town in the northeastern state of Borno, Xinhua news agency reported. Major General Chris Olukolade, the defence headquarters spokesperson, … read more
Despite the recent successes recorded by the military forces of Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon against members of the Boko Haram sect, the terror group based in North East Nigeria has been listed among the top five terrorists groups in … read more
According to a recent poll, an equal number of Nigerian voters—41%—fell on either side of the debate surrounding the postponement of presidential elections. It is perhaps no coincidence that those numbers almost perfectly overlap with the results of a December … read more
Nigeria’s economy, Africa’s biggest, expanded at its slowest pace in more than a year in the fourth quarter as oil prices fell. Growth in gross domestic product slowed to an annual 5.9 percent in the three months to Dec. 31 … read more
Suspected armed robbers in the Lekki Ajah area of Lagos State attacked Mr. Srivastava Kumar, 45, an Indian national who later died in hospital. The deceased was attacked in Eleko Ajah along Lekki Epe expressway while working on a farm. … read more
A young girl suicide bomber blew herself up and killed five others today in an attack on a market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Potiskum, witnesses and a hospital source said. Nineteen others who sustained various degrees of injury … read more