NIGERIAN Embassy in The Netherlands, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands and Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, avoided taking a risk, weekend, when the prosecution of a Nigerian-Dutch activist, Comrade Sunny Ofehe, by the Netherlands government for alleged pipeline bombing … read more
A prison official says suspected members of a radical Muslim sect shot and killed a prison guard in a northeast Nigeria city beset by assassinations carried out by the group. Prison comptroller Usman Kaina Maina said two gunmen with the … read more
Popular Nigerian comedian Baba Suwe has been detained at Lagos airport on suspicion of drug trafficking. He was arrested as he was about to board a flight to Paris after a body scanner identified suspected drugs in his stomach, an … read more
Nigeria’s Institute of Public Relations criticized the government’s decision to end fuel subsidies for the populace, noting that many Nigerians live below poverty level and that the removal of the fuel subsidy would aggravate hardships and possibly lead to the … read more
Chief Dr Judith Burdin Asuni (the Omotoyibo Rovie of Ughelli Kingdom) is the executive director Academic Associates Peace Work, a nongovernmental organization. She has been in Nigeria since 1971 and has been actively involved in driving the peace process in … read more
A Nigerian woman, Bidemi Bello, has been sentenced to 140 months in jail by a United States Court on human trafficking charges. The 42-year-old Nigerian, who became a US citizen while she committed the crime, was also ordered by District … read more
President Goodluck Jonathan Thursday publicly spoke on the planned removal of fuel subsidy, saying the deregulation of the country’s downstream sector would be done in phases and executed in “deliberate and responsible way”. President Jonathan assured Nigerians that “in the … read more
A Nigerian journalist said Thursday police threatened him with sedition charges over a story he wrote about presidential influencing in the oil-rich nation, as he and six newspaper colleagues were released from custody. Yusuf Alli of The Nation newspaper said … read more
The man whose failed plot contributed to the deployment of full-body scanners at U.S. airports pleaded guilty Wednesday to trying to bring down a jetliner with a bomb in his underwear. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab of Nigeria told a federal judge … read more
Twenty Eastern European sailors have been captured by pirates who seized an oil tanker off the coast of Nigeria, the vessel’s owner said Wednesday. The MT Cape Bird, hijacked about 90 nautical miles from Lagos on Saturday night, is still … read more