Between May 2013 and November 2014, the Nigerian government declared a state of emergency in three of its north-east States in a bid to combat militant Islamist movement Boko Haram. MSF has been working in Borno State since August 2014. … read more
The terrible news keeps on coming from Nigeria’s embattled northeast. Two suspected child suicide bombers reportedly blew themselves up in a crowded market on Sunday – the second such attack in two days linked to Boko Haram in which young … read more
The great surge of marchers in Paris on Sunday was impressive and very moving but what was it for? We know what it was against: murdering cartoonists – or anyone else – is a bad thing and should not happen. … read more
As the world’s attention was focused on the huge March for Unity in Paris, responding to the Islamist attacks there last week, Nigeria was reeling from a blizzard of attacks by the Boko Haram Islamist extremists that have killed an … read more
A huge fire broke out in the early hours of Monday in the busy Balogun market in Lagos, the economic hub of Nigeria, the country’s rescue agency said. Spokesperson for the country’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in Lagos Ibrahim … read more
Two 10-year-old girls blew themselves up in a busy market, the second horrific attack in days using children by the jihadi extremist group Boko Haram in Nigeria. The two young girls were strapped with explosives, according to eyewitnesses to the … read more
As presidential elections in Nigeria coming closer the excitement among different segments of the population is growing. Even prostitutes did not remain indifferent, they promised all Nigerians three days of free sex if General Muhammadu Buhari wins. Members of the … read more
Former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria John Campbell, had severally predicted that the country will not exist beyond 2015. LEADERSHIP’s US Bureau chief, ABIODUN OLUWAROTIMI, writes on the possible factors that could make the predictions a reality. Last August, the former … read more
A terrorist attack on a police station in Nigeria left two people, including a police officer and the suicide bomber, dead Saturday. The suicide bomber targeted the police station in Potiskum town of the northeastern Nigerian state of Yobe, witnesses … read more
Said Kouachi, one of France’s Charlie Hebdo terrorists had links to Umar Mutallab, the Nigerian ‘underwear bomber’ who tried to blow up a commercial US flight on Christmas Day in 2009, it has been claimed. The revelation comes as French … read more