Nigeria oil militant group Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said on Saturday it would soon commence massive attacks against South Africa’s investments in Nigeria, especially mobile telecommunications company, MTN, to protest the continued detention of its … read more
In a quarter-century, at the rate Nigeria is growing, 300 million people – a population about as big as that of the present-day United States – will live in a country the size of Arizona and New Mexico. In this … read more
Air Nigeria will commence daily flight operations from Lagos to London on Monday, May 16, says the Chairman of the airline, Dr Jimoh Ibrahim, on Saturday. Ibrahim told media executives and editors in Lagos that the company had also finalised … read more
Travelling abroad for medical treatment with public funds may not be so easy for public officers any more, if the federal government approves a planned law to that effect. The Minister of Health Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu disclosed this to journalists … read more
French oil firm Total SA said on Saturday that a natural gas leak at one of its plants in Nigeria’s crude-rich southern delta may have been going on for weeks. The leak at its Obite natural gas site has forced … read more
Disturbed by the threat issued by the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram against President Goodluck Jonathan, the Nigerian Air Force in Kaduna on Saturday embarked on a 10 kilometer route match to declare its readiness against any threat to the … read more
Rising energy costs due to worsening electricity supply may force more industries in Nigeria to collapse, the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has warned. The local media Friday quoted Chamber President Goodie Ibru as saying that industries rely … read more
After years of delays, Nigeria’s president signed into law the country’s first Freedom of Information bill last year, supposedly cutting away old colonial-era secrecy laws and allowing the public access to government documents in this democracy for the first time. … read more
Mrs. Ifueko Omoigui-Okaru, the Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, has stepped down, putting an end to an eventful tenure. Ifueko who was first appointed as the Chairman of FIRS in 2004 under the tenure of former President … read more
In an attack that didn’t happen — well, not officially — a police inspector and four of his officers were ambushed by Islamist militants last month in this northern Nigerian city. Two of them died, two crawled away and hid … read more