The police headquarters yesterday said the report of the National Human Rights Commission accusing policemen of unlawful killing of 5,000 detainees annually across the country was not correct. The Chairman, Governing Council of the National Human Rights Commission, Prof. Chidi … read more
Nigeria’s police in central north Nasarawa State on Monday said eight persons were killed by unknown gunmen in a village overnight. State police spokesperson Cornelius Ocholi told reporters in Lafia, the state capital, that the gunmen attacked Tse Yaji Village … read more
Another round of fuel scarcity looms as the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), on Sunday in Abuja gave the Federal Government a 72-hour deadline to intervene in its dispute with some banks or face a nationwide … read more
Plans to free two Western hostages were well underway when they were killed during a failed rescue bid in Nigeria, a spokesman for the kidnappers told the Mauritanian news agency ANI. The spokesman for a splinter cell of radical Islamist … read more
TWO kidnap gangs, Sunday, in Warri, Delta State, abducted five persons, including two daughters of a contractor to Chevron Nigeria Limited, aged two and nine years respectively and the wife a Shell Nigeria Exploration Production Company, SNPECO, employee. However, the … read more
Plans to free two Western hostages were well underway and some ransom paid by their families when they were killed during a failed rescue bid in Nigeria, a spokesman for the kidnappers told the Mauritanian news agency ANI. The spokesman … read more
Ransom money was paid to the Islamic extremists holding British and Italian hostages in Nigeria before British special forces tried to rescue them from their compound, a news agency has claimed. Part of a €1.2m ransom was paid to release … read more
A gun battle broke out on Friday between suspected Islamist militants and police in Nigeria’s biggest northern city of Kano, after the militants opened fire on a police station, the city’s police force spokesman said. At least three police were … read more
The South African government has apologized for deporting a number of Nigerians from the country in a move analysts and observers say will help ease the tensions between the two countries. “We wish to humbly apologize to them, and we … read more
A British construction worker and his Italian colleague were murdered by suspected terrorists in north-west Nigeria as UK special forces, supported by the Nigerian army, attempted to rescue them in a bloody operation given the green light by David Cameron. … read more