Lagos Island, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria was a theatre of war yesterday morning as scores of youths from Idungaran in Isale Eko area stormed Isalegangan Street (Onola) with dangerous weapons, including AK 47 rifles, knives, cutlasses and gallons of petrol and … read more
The anti-bomb unit of the Nigerian police said they have demobilized a bomb in Ungwar Sarki area in Kaduna city. The Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was found in an area close the Sultan Bello mosque at the same spot an … read more
A BOMB planted by an abandoned car exploded outside a church in the middle of a worship service near Nigeria’s capital, wounding five people amid a continuing wave of violence by a radical Islamist sect, authorities and witnesses say. No … read more
Suspected militants killed three Nigerian Navy officers and injured two when they fired on their patrol boat off the coast in the oil-producing Akwa Ibom state, the private Punch newspaper reported Sunday. It said the incident occurred on Saturday morning, … read more
A feckless political system and excessive reliance on an oil industry that generates few jobs have conspired to reverse Nigeria’s battle against poverty despite economic growth, analysts say. Many see Nigeria as a classic victim of the “resource curse” where … read more
Three persons were killed and 39 vehicles burnt when a tanker loaded with petrol overturned and exploded in flames early on Saturday in Nigeria’s economic capital city of Lagos, the local media reported on Sunday. The accident occurred at the … read more
A militant Islamic sect in Nigeria, Boko Haram, was suspected in the deaths yesterday of a Muslim cleric in Konduga, Borno state, and the district head of Geidam in Yobe state, police officials said. Police are investigating the killings and … read more
In a small stone, tin-roof building in Regassa in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna, in a room whose walls are decorated with slates inscribed with Koranic verses, Adulai, 15, lies on a mat, feverish with malaria and typhoid. His … read more
More than 8000 security personnel have being mobilised for Saturday’s governorship election in Sokoto State, says the state commissioner of police (CP), Alhaji Adisa Bolanta. Bolanta in Sokoto on Friday said that some of the officers and men were drafted … read more
The spate of security challenges in the country has been linked to the entrenchment of corruption in the country, Diane Mkohn, a United States Of America envoy has said. Mkohn, who is the Director, International Narcotics and Law Enforcement at … read more