One thousand people, most of them women and children, have died from lead poisoning resulting from illegal mining activities in Nigeria’s northern Zamfara state since June 2010, the local Guardian newspaper Sunday quoted State Governor Abdul Aziz Yari as saying. … read more
The death toll in clashes between Muslim and Christian ethnic groups in central Nigeria has risen to 25, a local official said Saturday, following a mass burial that included four of his own children. Pam Choji, a councillor in Barkin … read more
Explosions and heavy gunfire were heard Saturday near a police station in northeastern Nigeria, which is home to a radical Muslim sect. Officials say that gunmen attacked a police station in the city of Geidam in Nigeria’s Yobe state, near … read more
Even as students, they own cars and live big on campus. They tell the sordid tales of their involvement in kidnapping, the money they make and how they got recruited into the booming business of holding people hostage for money … read more
Nigeria and the Republic of Benin set up a joint naval operation code-named “Operation prosperity” to check-mate activities of pirates in the Gulf of Guinea waters The recent upsurge in the activities of sea pirates on Nigerian waterways has been … read more
The sacking this week of Nigeria’s anti-graft chief may give the country’s fight against corruption a short-term boost, but significant change is unlikely without deeper reforms to the justice system, analysts say. President Goodluck Jonathan’s unexpected firing of Farida Waziri, … read more
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has disclosed that 124 policemen died in encounters with armed robbers between January 2007 and September 2011. Fashola made the disclosure last Tuesday, at the 5th Town Hall meeting on security with the theme; … read more
FRESH violence in Plateau State yesterday led to the death of 20 people and the destruction of property as Berom natives and Fulani herdsmen clashed at the Barkin Ladi Local Council of the state. And from the fundamentalist Islamic sect … read more
A Nigerian comic actor who was wrongly detained on suspicion of trafficking drugs in his stomach has been awarded more than $155,000 (£100,000). A judge at the High Court in Lagos said the detention of Baba Suwe – as he’s … read more
President Goodluck Jonathan has said his administration will ensure that the menace of the Boko Haram Islamic sect in Nigeria will soon be crushed. Jonathan gave the assurance in Paris on Thursday at the opening ceremony of the biennial Honourary … read more