A Nigerian NGO Monday petitioned the anti-graft Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) asking it to urgently launch an investigation into the allegation that an Italian construction company built a 2,500-capacity church in President Goodluck Jonathan’s home town as a … read more
Nigerian parliamentarians have expressed their support for the government’s ultimatum to foreign airlines to end the discriminatory fares they charge on the Nigerian route or quit. Aviation Minister Stella Oduah issued the 30-day ultimatum last week, triggering an angry reaction … read more
Against the backdrop of the worsening electricity situation in Nigeria, mobile phone companies will this year spend 45.9 billion naira (US$282m) to power generators at their base stations. According to the local Punch newspaper on Monday, Mobile phone operators including … read more
The Lagos state government on Monday told a Federal High Court in Lagos that it has not imposed a ban on the operations of commercial motor cyclists, otherwise known as Okada, on Lagos roads. The state’s Attorney General and Commissioner … read more
One soldier, one State Security Service (SSS) personnel and nine gunmen were killed in a clash between security agents and gunmen suspected to be members of the Islamic sect Boko Haram in Okene in Nigeria’s central Kogi state this weekend, … read more
Passengers were stranded in airports at the weekend as there were no aircraft to convey them to their various destinations; many of them had to return home or seek alternative means of getting to their destinations. The airlines that managed … read more
There was panic on Sunday evening in Nigeria’s northern city Kaduna after a bomb explosion killed a suspected suicide bomber, police said. There were two people seriously injured before taken to hospital. A Xinhua reporter in the city said the … read more
Yesterday, suspected ex-militants stormed the National Agip Oil Company, NAOC, with explosives and bombed five cluster oil wells belonging to the company. The oil wells, according to information available to Vanguard, are located between River Niger and Tailor creek in … read more
PETROLEUM and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, has declared a three-day nationwide warning strike from April 16, to protest perceived unfair labour practices, anti-union activities and general insecurity of members at work places and at home. In … read more
The Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, has dragged two Britons before a Federal High Court, Lagos, over alleged forgery of Nigerian visa and impersonation of the Director of Citizens and Business Department, Ministry of Interior, Mr. Adetayo Sode. The accused, Ian … read more