A female suicide bomber injured four people at a teachers’ college in northwest Nigeria yesterday, while the US hit back at allegations it has not done enough to tackle Boko Haram militants. Police spokesman, Ibrahim Gambari, said the woman had … read more
Royal Dutch Shell said Thursday that two 2008 oil spills in Nigeria were larger than earlier thought, ahead of a compensation court case in England’s High Court. The Anglo-Dutch energy giant’s Nigerian arm said in a statement that the spills … read more
Learn more about the deadliest infectious disease for children under age five. Pneumonia kills more children than any other illness Pneumonia is the number one infectious killer of children under the age of five – on average contributing to more … read more
Nigeria has slammed the United States for refusing to sell it the weapons needed to defeat Boko Haram militants. Washington has banned arms sales to Nigeria because of alleged human rights violations in the crackdown on Islamist extremists. Nigeria’s ambassador … read more
A suicide bomber dressed in a school uniform, burst onto the students’ assembly ground of Government Science Secondary School (GSSS), Potiskum, Yobe State and killed 52 students yesterday. Seventy-nine others were injured. Potiskum is the largest commercial city in the state, … read more
Nigeria’s president Goodluck Jonathan was on Tuesday expected to formally declare his bid for re-election, in a widely anticipated announcement that has been trailed by his office for weeks. The event, in central Abuja, has been billed as “the mother … read more
Nigeria’s central bank has vowed to defend the naira, despite a drop in oil prices which has unnerved foreign investors and sent its stock and bond markets into a tailspin, Deputy Governor Sarah Alade told Reuters. Alade said the naira, … read more
Nigeria is a birdwatcher’s paradise, with sites of exquisite natural beauty. It is also a tourism hard-sell, and not only because of Ebola and Boko Haram. The country was recently declared free of the deadly virus, but Islamic violence remains a significant threat. … read more
Cybercriminals are now spending more time in devising targeted attacks on individuals to make significant financial gains instead of launching widespread automated attacks, says tech giant Google. Incidents of manual hijacking – where professional attackers spend considerable time exploiting a … read more
A suicide bomber disguised in school uniform detonated explosives at a high school assembly in the northeast Nigerian city of Potiskum on Monday, killing at least 48 students, according to survivors and a morgue attendant. Soldiers rushed to the scene, … read more