A Nigerian court issued an order seeking to bar a national strike planned for next week as police blocked protesters on Friday in the capital over soaring fuel prices which have sparked nationwide outrage. The labour movement has threatened to … read more
A fresh shooting attack from a Muslim sect had claimed 20 lives in northeast Nigeria on Friday, a local police officer has said. The attack came as a spate of sect shooting and bombing attacks in the country’s north over … read more
On January 1 2012, Nigeria, Africa’s largest oil producer, ended oil subsidies that had kept gasoline prices artificially low. The cost of a liter of gasoline shot up from 65 naira (40 cents) to at least 141 naira (86 cents) … read more
ENRAGED youths, numbering over 2,000, armed with battleaxes, cutlasses and other dangerous weapons went on rampage, Friday, sacking and inflicting injuries on over 50 Muslims at the Hausa quarters, Sapele in Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State. A northern … read more
Boko Haram has stepped up its attacks in defiance of the state of emergency declared by President Goodluck Jonathan with at least 17 people killed in the latest attacks. In one incident at least 17 people were killed in Mubi … read more
Former Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nasir El-Rufai has been criticizing President Jonathan Government on twitter in the past few hours. Read below and you can follow him on twitter @elrufai for more . Those giving economic arguments for or … read more
Gunmen have attacked a church in north-east Nigeria during a prayer service, killing at least five people and wounding others in an assault that occurred amid an increasingly violent campaign by a radical Muslim sect. Pastor Johnson Jauro said the … read more
Police in Nigeria fired teargas to break up a sit-in demonstration as massive fuel price protests threatened to bring the country to a standstill. Amnesty International warned against excessive use of force by the police after one protester was killed … read more
Facebook may have served Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan well during his electioneering campaign, but it has now turned to a double-edged sword for the Nigerian leader. In the wake of his administration’s hike in the price of petrol on 1 … read more
The indefinite strike called by Nigeria’s organized labour for Monday, to protest high fuel prices, will shut down the country’s oil production, close air and sea ports, as well as banks, markets and fuel stations, the organizers said on Wednesday. … read more