An hours-long gun battle raged on Saturday in a northern Nigerian city that’s the spiritual home of a radical Islamist sect, and a car bomb exploded during a gun fight with members of the group in another city in the … read more
A raid carried out on suspected members of the Boko Haram sect resulted in the killing of undisclosed number of the sect members yesterday, while several others were injured in a pre-dawn operation carried out by the Joint Security Task … read more
A group of 35 Nigerian villages sued Royal Dutch Shell PLC on Friday in a British court, claiming that the company’s slow response to two spills in 2008 left their delta region soaked in crude oil that destroyed the environment … read more
Two Russian and one Filipino seamen from the ship “Breeze Clipper”, captured by pirates on February 28th in Nigeria, were released Saturday. This was reported by the inspector of the International Federation of Transport Workers, Piotr Osichansky. According to him, … read more
Initially facilitated by a journalist, talks between the Supreme Council for Sharia, on behalf of the Abuja government, and Boko Haram, the radical Islamic movement held responsible for a campaign of terror in northern Nigeria, have broken down. A Boko … read more
The controversial vessel, MT Madina, was arrested in Ghana earlier this month for its alleged involvement in crude oil lifting. Now however, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has confirmed that the vessel is not Nigerian. The ship … read more
Boko Haram, a Nigerian Islamist insurgency, is emerging as a threat not only to Nigeria, but also to the African continent and the United States. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has proven unable to address the growing security crisis that has … read more
The British Government has urged her Nigerian counterpart to “diligently” see through its recent efforts to address large-scale petroleum sector fraud, assuring of its support. The call came as Nigerians await the outcome of the House of Representatives probe into … read more
Britain and Italy are setting up a joint counter-terrorism group to improve co-operation following the failed hostage rescue bid in Nigeria. Engineers Christopher McManus and Franco Lamolinara were killed by their captors earlier this month as UK special forces and … read more
The Justice Department on Thursday accused AT&T of defrauding a federal program out of millions of dollars and assisting Nigerian scammers. According to the lawsuit, AT&T knowingly billed the federal government for calls placed by international scammers through IP Relay … read more