Clashes between a violent Islamist sect and security forces in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Damaturu have killed at least 24 people in the past day, police said on Friday. A sustained gun battle broke out between Nigerian security forces and … read more
Telecoms operators in the country now charge their subscribers N100 to register their new SIM cards in the open market. When the SIM registration exercise started March 28, subscribers were not charged. But Daily Trust findings in Abuja and Lagos … read more
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Sanusi Lamido, on Thursday said the Federal Government lost about 16 billion dollars in 2011 to oil subsidy. Lamido said this at the Second Town Hall Meeting of the Nigerian Proprietors Association of … read more
An oil spill near the coast of Nigeria is probably the worst to hit those waters in a decade, a government official said Thursday, as slicks from the Royal Dutch Shell PLC spill approached the country’s southern shoreline. The slick … read more
A sustained gun battle broke out between Nigerian security forces and suspected Islamist militants in the northern city of Damaturu on Thursday, and several explosions were heard, witnesses and the local police commissioner said. Confrontations between security forces and the … read more
The Nigerian government has not decided on when it will remove oil subsidy, Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said on Thursday. She said the government was still engaged in dialogue with all opinion groups concerning the issue, after which the President … read more
Many commentators have in the recent past assessed the Nigerian situation and concluded that Nigeria is a failed state. In arriving at this debatable conclusion, they draw attention to certain indices that point to this direction, the poor or non-existent … read more
The Police in Benue State have taken hostage an entire family, including a one-year old baby, in an effort to compel the baby’s journalist-father to turn himself over to them for a story published by his newspaper. The baby is … read more
The safety of air travel in Nigeria is in question again. In a petition sent on December 5 to the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, the Major Oil Marketers Association (MOMAN) alleges that some unscrupulous Nigerians are selling kerosene … read more
Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s largest oil company, shut its 200,000 barrel-a-day Bonga field off Nigeria after a leak during a tanker loading caused what may be the country’s worst offshore spill in more than a decade. An export line … read more