Eight suspected members of a Nigerian Islamist sect appeared in court on Tuesday charged with carrying out a series of bombings and shootings between March and July this year that killed a total of 25 people. The defendants, accused of … read more
A government agency assigned to build roads and hospitals in Nigeria’s oil-rich southern delta awarded contracts, but never saw construction carried out in the endemically poor region, the country’s presidency said Tuesday. The Niger Delta Development Commission let contractors escape … read more
THE on going revelations on corruption in Nigeria, especially in the nation’s oil sector, and the already excruciating destabilising activities of Boko Haram in Abuja, has heightened fears of fresh separatist insurrections in the Niger Delta and other parts of … read more
Despite the laudable expectations from the yet-to-be passed Petroleum Industry Bill, there is the other side of the bill that has been giving stakeholders in the industry a lot of concern. Some industry analysts have said some sections of the … read more
DISSATISFIED with its unchallenged bombing activities in the North, Boko Haram has threatened to extend the reign of terror to southern parts of the country. Leaders of the sect said that their radar was now on University of Ibadan (UI), … read more
Gunmen firing assault rifles bombed a police station in northern Nigeria and robbed a nearby bank Monday, killing at least five people in an attack similar to others carried out by a feared Muslim sect in the region. Heavy gunfire … read more
Four Nigerian police officers suspected to have been drunk have been accused of shooting dead three people at a funeral in the country’s south for unclear reasons, authorities said on Monday. “The incident happened on Saturday night at Kwale,” said … read more
Apparently overwhelmed by the on-going revelations on corruption in Nigeria, a chieftain of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Ekerete J. Ekerete, has said that the convocation of a sovereign national conference has become inevitable … read more
AS a way to stem the spate of killings in Plateau State, President Goodluck Jonathan has directed the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Air Marshal Oluseyi Petinrin, to move into the state and take full charge of the security situation. … read more
Nigeria’s security challenges following bombings by a radical Islamist sect are holding back some foreign investment in the oil-rich country, President Goodluck Jonathan said on Monday. Boko Haram, whose name means “Western education is sinful”, has claimed responsibility for a … read more