CHAIRMAN, Nigeria Governors’ Forum and Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, has advised Nigerians to troop to the streets in protest if withdrawal of fuel subsidy does not improve their lives. Speaking as a discussant at the 41st annual conference of … read more
The lines between al-Qaida, Islamic extremism in Africa, and wider insecurity in the continent’s most populous nation, Nigeria, are converging. Most attention is devoted to the first two challenges, but the time has come to broaden the conversation. In a … read more
According to NAPTIP, sixty per cent of the prostitutes in Turin and Antwerp are known to be Nigerian women and girls The House of Representatives says it will push for stronger anti-trafficking legislation to improve Nigeria’s increasingly notorious human trafficking … read more
The assassination of a member of parliament, an attack on an army barracks and the recent bombing of the United Nations offices in Abuja show that Boko Haram, the Islamic extremist group, is growing in ambition and capability and threatening … read more
Nigeria’s military on Tuesday said it had arrested 50 suspected oil thieves in the past three months and destroyed some 2,000 illicit refineries this year in the oil-producing Niger Delta region. While unrest in the region has sharply declined since … read more
Exxon Mobil Corp.’s Nigerian unit said armed men attacked a supply vessel near its oil facilities offshore the southern state of Akwa Ibom yesterday. “Operation is normal, and production has not been impacted,” Ozemoya Okordion, a spokesman based in Lagos, … read more
We are at it again. Subsidy removal is again being brandished by government as the imperative to balancing next year’s budget and the cornerstone of our infrastructural upgrade that the entire nation has been clamouring for . Indeed, it is … read more
After a traumatising period of blackberry services black out, last week, users all over the world have been asking for compensation for the pains of not connecting to loved ones and business associates. Ironically, all the demands have always gone … read more
An MP in north-eastern Nigeria’s Borno state has been assassinated by suspected militants from Islamist group Boko Haram, police say. The gunmen killed MP Modu Bintube at his home in the state capital, Maiduguri, they said. The police also accused … read more
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide if companies can be held liable in the United States for international human rights law violations, a case about allegations that Royal Dutch Shell Plc helped Nigeria violently suppress oil exploration … read more