The Niger Delta militia group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), yesterday endorsed the candidature of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Mohammadu Buhari, saying he is the right man to revamp … read more
Oil giant Shell has agreed to pay a Nigerian fishing community 55 million pounds ($83.5 million) for the worst oil spill ever suffered in that country. Wednesday’s agreement ends a three-year legal battle in Britain over two spills in 2008 … read more
Nigerians are now paying more money than Americans in real terms for petrol and diesel, bye-products of the crude oil for which Nigeria is Africa’s leading producer. As oil prices tumbled close to $50 after the New Year, US consumers … read more
The military has strongly rejected a report by New York Times that it failed to act on Pentagon’s “actionable intelligence” from drone flights on information that might have indicated the location of some of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls, saying some … read more
A blast from an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) on Sunday claimed two lives in Dahlehi Community in the Maiha Local Government Area of Adamawa State in north-eastern Nigeria.The Chairman of the Local Government, Alhaji Mohammed Jibrilla, who confirmed the development … read more
Nigeria’s major opposition party the All Progressive Congress (APC) has announced it would be issuing mobile phones to its agents that would be deployed to 1130 polling stations in Ogun state’s senatorial districts in the forthcoming general elections. Dapo Abiodun, … read more
Boko Haram Islamic extremists have overpowered a multinational military force and seized its key base on Nigeria’s border with Chad, according to residents who took to canoes to escape. Scores of soldiers and civilians were killed, while others drowned in … read more
Several senior political, military and business figures in Niger went on trial Friday on charges of taking part in the trafficking of babies from neighbouring Nigeria. The most prominent defendant, opposition leader and former parliament speaker Hama Amadou, was absent … read more
Suen Oke traveled 5,730 miles from Nigeria to Clay County, USA, to say “thank you” that she no longer has to crawl or be carried. The 26-year-old woman lives in a village in south central Nigeria. She came to Penney … read more
Islamist terror group Boko Haram now controls about twenty percent of Nigeria, The New York Times reported this week. The land grab amounts to over 70,000 square miles of territory, which is between about two and six times the square … read more