For months, the Federal Government has been canvassing for the removal of the fuel subsidy, with President Goodluck Jonathan saying that the country would collapse if government continued to support the subsidy. In 2011 for instance, N240 billion was budgeted … read more
President, Goodluck Jonathan, has sacked the head of the country’s anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Farida Waziri’s removal was to “revitalise the fight against corruption”, his spokesman said. Her predecessor at the EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu, was … read more
President Goodluck Jonathan has picked a battle that every Nigerian president, military and civilian in the past 20 years has fought and lost in one way or another. With the cost of maintaining government now running at three quarters of … read more
A Nigerian senator was charged in court on Tuesday alongside a suspected member of militant Islamist sect Boko Haram, fanning suspicions the group has strong political links. Senator Ali Ndume pleaded not guilty to charges of passing classified information to … read more
Finally, some progress however slight in Nigeria’s fight against Boko Haram, the Islamist militant group that’s been wreaking havoc and violence across north-eastern Nigeria ever since April’s presidential elections. Nigeria’s state security service paraded a man who they claimed was … read more
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The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has said that over 5000 cases of willful act of pipeline vandalism were recorded at the end of 2010 nationwide. The Managing Director of Pipeline Product and Marketing Company, PPMC, marketing and distribution arm … read more
No fewer than five people, including a child and two soldiers have been killed in separate shootings and bomb blasts in Nigeria’s north eastern Borno and north central Kogi states, local media reported here Sunday. Suspected members of the dreaded … read more
The U.S Coast Guard Warship donated to the Nigeria Navy on May 13 will depart for Nigeria from Alameda, California on Monday. The vessel, which is designed as a high endurance cutter with a crossing range of 9,600 miles at … read more
WHEN news breaks in Nigeria, Omoyele Sowore is there. His Web news operation was the first to publish a photo of the Nigeria-born “underwear bomber” arrested in December 2009, and when a suicide bombing this summer shook a United Nations … read more