The 36 state governors and the Federal Government yesterday rose from the National Economic Council (NEC) meeting and agreed that fuel subsidy should be removed as it was not contributing to the expected well-being of the citizens of Nigeria. In … read more
Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency has arrested three former state governors for allegedly embezzling funds amounting to $674m (£436m). The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said the former governors of Ogun, Oyo and Nasarawa states faced a series of charges. They … read more
More than five million telephone subscribers in Nigeria were cut off when protesters attacked an exchange of India-owned Airtel, one of the west African nation’s biggest telecom firms, it said Thursday. The protesters, members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), … read more
Abuja, Nigeria’s sparkling new capital, is a city under siege. In August, Boko Haram, a shadowy and violent Muslim sect operating in the northeastern part of the country, bombed a building housing staff of the United Nations in the central … read more
The judge in the trial of a Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a plane with a bomb in his underwear has dismissed a juror from the defendent’s home country. About a half-hour after 12 jurors and four … read more
Unknown assailants have shot dead two people in an attack on a village in Nigeria’s central volatile and violence-wracked Plateau State, a government spokesman and a witness said. The assailants late Tuesday attacked one house in Tanjol village in Riyom … read more
Forty-seven people have made the final cut as prospective jurors in the trial of a man who is charged with a failed terrorist attack on a Detroit-bound plane. All were told to report to federal court Thursday. There are 32 … read more
Nigeria’s federal government has fired the chief executive officers of three key aviation parastatals as part of its ‘transformation agenda’. Those affected, according to a statement from the Ministry of Aviation, are the Managing Directors of the Federal Airports Authority … read more
Over the past decade, Shell Oil Company’s Nigeria operation has been complicit in human rights abuses, caused inexorable environmental harm, injected cash and resources into an armed militia groups, and fueled the communal tensions that are tearing the region apart. … read more
A pipeline in Nigeria belonging to Italian firm ENI has been sabotaged and is now undergoing repairs, the company said on Tuesday, with such incidents frequent in the country’s oil-producing region. “There was a sabotage on the pipeline Obama-Brass, close … read more