The last six months have been filled with raging debate over proposed removal of fuel subsidy in Nigeria. The cantankerous issue is not new, but has never been dealt with decisively, thus coming and going like Soyinka’s Abiku and pitching … read more
The Delta Police Command on Wednesday said seven people were hospitalised following Tuesday’s explosion at an Arabic school in Sapele,southern Delta state. Police spokesman Charles Muka told journalists in Asaba, the state capital, that the incident occurred at about 9.40 … read more
Armed Fulani herdsmen shot dead three members of a family in an attack in Nigeria’s ethnically and religiously mixed Plateau state on Wednesday, witnesses and officials said. Plateau is a tinderbox of ethnic and religious rivalries over land and power … read more
Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency said 80 people have been confirmed dead from Christmas Eve blasts in the central city of Jos. “The death toll has increased to 80 as at yesterday,” Yushau Shuaib, a spokesman for the agency known … read more
The warning signs are familiar. An armed group begins by imposing the strictures of Islamic sharia on a Muslim population, using first moral persuasion and then actual violence. Having secured its hold over a region where central government has little … read more
Officials with Royal Dutch Shell PLC say they’ve contained the worst Nigeria offshore oil spill in more than a decade. Shell officials said on Monday that the Dec 20 spill that saw less than 40 000 barrels of oil pouring … read more
The Boko Haram spokesperson, Abu Qaqa said yesterday that his militant group is responsible for the Christmas day attacks across the North. The spokesperson who spoke to journalists on phone, said the attacks were meant to tell the security agencies … read more
Nigeria probed a series of Christmas Day terror attacks in which at least 40 people were killed, as the military arrested four suspects for the carnage that targeted churches in the restive north of the country. Spokesman for the military … read more
The Nigerian militant Islamist group Boko Haram, which claimed a wave of Christmas bombings that left at least 35 people dead, has carried out scores of attacks that have grown increasingly sophisticated. The group is believed to include different factions … read more
Islamist militants set off bombs across Nigeria on Christmas Day – three targeting churches including one that killed at least 27 people – raising fears that they are trying to ignite sectarian civil war. The Boko Haram Islamist sect, which … read more