The Nigerian Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, on Tuesday warned that the nation could experience food shortage as exporting countries had scaled down exports to address internal shortages, the privately-owned Punch newspaper reported Wednesday. He said some Asian countries, … read more
The Nigerian State Security Service (SSS) Tuesday confirmed that it had arrested a banker, an ally of the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), Henry Okah, for allegedly coordinating the financing of the nation’s 50th … read more
On Sept. 17, a popular Nigerian blogger named Linda Ikeji wrote that she was in possession of an hour-long tape of five students from Abia State University gang-raping a young woman. Ms. Ikeji is a widely followed and popular writer … read more
About 2.5 million residents of Lagos state, representing 14 per cent of its total population, suffer from one form of mental illness or the other, Dr. Jide Idris, the State Commissioner for Health, said here Monday. Addressing a press conference … read more
Nigerian police on Tuesday arrested five senior journalists and two other officials of a Lagos-based private newspaper, the daily said in a statement. The Nation newspaper said in the statement that it believed the arrest was in connection with its … read more
Pirates have hijacked an oil tanker and its crew off the Nigerian coast, the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said. The pirates boarded the tanker, believed to be a Marshall Islands-flagged vessel, on Saturday, IMB manager Cyrus Mody said from London. … read more
Nigerian troops were accused of burning homes and shooting indiscriminately on Monday after a bomb attack in the country’s northeast blamed on Islamists which killed a soldier and a civilian. A military spokesman denied soldiers had carried out abuses and … read more
Nigeria risks revolution if the government does not address mounting frustration in one of the world’s most corrupt countries, a committee appointed by the president to probe post-vote violence said Monday. “General insecurity of life and property in people’s houses … read more
Lack of maintenance culture in the country has been a known characteristic of the past administrations, and has indeed become an age-long ‘birth-mark’ in governance. President Jonathan’s administration is yet to prove otherwise with the physical results of the presently … read more
The serene coastal Tereke community in the Nembe Local Government Area was still reveling in the 15th anniversary of the creation of Bayelsa State, the only homogenous Ijaw speaking state in the Nigerian federation, when a loud explosion sent a … read more