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An Abuja Senior Magistrates’ Court has rewarded two handset thieves with 12 lashes of the cane for stealing. The two thieves Abubakar Rabiu, 20, and Awalu Saidu 20, of no fixed address, were charged with stealing the phone set, property … read more
The director general of the Department of Immigrants at the Foreign Affairs Ministry Haitham Jomaa announced Friday the Lebanese businessman who was kidnapped Wednesday in Nigeria has been released. Jomaa identified the Lebanese expatriate as Elias Sarkis and said the … read more
Authorities say suspected members of a radical Islamist sect have shot and killed an Islamic cleric and another man, while also planting a bomb at a local primary school in northeast Nigeria. The military said the bomb detonated early Friday … read more
Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo are set to be nominated to lead the World Bank, sources with knowledge of emerging market efforts to find candidates said on Tuesday. The candidacies of Okonjo-Iweala … read more
The Nigerian military’s Joint Task Force has killed nine suspected members of the Boko Haram Islamist militant group in the northern Nigerian town of Tudun Wada, about 60 miles from the city of Kano. The suspected militants were killed shortly … read more
Al-Qaeda’s north Africa branch said Wednesday it was holding a German engineer kidnapped in Nigeria two months ago, and that it wanted to swap him for a jailed Muslim woman, a private news agency in Mauritania said. “We inform you … read more
Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Lt. General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan received last night Emirati citizen Mohammed Khamis Majid who returned to the country after he was freed from his kidnappers in Nigeria by the Interior Ministry. … read more
Europe’s Air France is boosting its Africa connections from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport with a new daily flight to Abuja in Nigeria from June 4 this year. Flights will be operated by an A330-200 with a total capacity of … read more
A Lebanese businessman, whose name was given as Sarkis, has been kidnapped in Edo State. Sarkis, who is the Managing Director of Reality Nigeria and a petrol dealer, was said to have been abducted on Tuesday night at his house … read more