Crude’s six-month lemming plunge seems to have ended. But the factors that caused it in the first place haven’t gone away. Oil prices, which have rattled petrostates by plunging 60 percent from their summer 2014 highs, are suddenly leaping back … read more
Washington is curtailing its military support for Nigeria’s fight against Boko Haram. But that doesn’t mean that both countries aren’t getting what they want. Over the past five years, Boko Haram has killed more than 10,000 people and left another … read more
A bomb exploded outside a stadium in northern Nigeria on Monday, just minutes after President Goodluck Jonathan left a campaign rally at the site. Police say at least one female suicide bomber was involved in the attack in the town … read more
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has urged all parties in Nigeria’s elections later this month to refrain from violence before, during and after the vote. In a written statement, Fatou Bensouda said Monday she would send a team … read more
The US Department of State has warned U.S. citizens of the risks of travel to Nigeria, and recommended that they avoid all travel to Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states because the security situation in northeast Nigeria remains fluid and unpredictable. … read more
A blast ripped through a car park outside a stadium where Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan had addressed a re-election campaign rally on Monday, minutes after he left, witnesses said. Mohammed Bolari, who was at the rally in the northeastern city … read more
Over the weekend, the Islamic extremists seeking to establish a caliphate in Iraq, Syria and beyond, cruelly beheaded a Japanese journalist and thereby retained the dubious distinction of being the jihadist group most detested by the world’s more civilized citizens. … read more
Boko Haram’s attempt on Sunday to capture the city of Maiduguri has been repelled by the Nigerian army. This is the third time in a week that Boko Haram assaulted Maiduguri, Nigeria’s largest city in the northeast. The attack is … read more
By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie WE call it light; “electricity” is too sterile a word, and “power” too stiff, for this Nigerian phenomenon that can buoy spirits and smother dreams. Whenever I have been away from home for a while, my … read more
Three soldiers and 123 Boko Haram militants were killed when the militant group attacked a Chadian army contingent in northern Cameroon, the Chadian military said Friday (Jan 30). Twelve soldiers were wounded in the attacks staged by the militant group … read more