Nigeria’s president has promised to bring terrorism under control, during a visit to the scene of Friday’s bombing at the UN’s headquarters in Abuja. Goodluck Jonathan said it had been not just an attack on Nigeria, but an attack on … read more
Seven heavily armed assailants boarded a Cameroonian ship with 150 people on board off the coast of Nigeria Saturday and took its captain hostage, a shipping company and a witness told AFP. The others on board were released unharmed, they … read more
Nigeria, Africa’s biggest oil producer, charged Ralph Uwazurike, the leader of a Biafra separatist movement, and 280 members, with treason in a court in the southeastern city of Enugu, police said. “They were charged yesterday and remanded in prison,” Enugu … read more
The United Nations System in Nigeria yesterday confirmed nine of its staff dead in Friday’s suicide bombing attack on its office. It, however, added that the casualty figure may rise when more information is gathered from hospitals, staff and their … read more
Every day that goes without the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) being passed into law means huge loss to Nigeria. Over five decades since the discovery of oil in commercial quantity, the laws regulating its operations are hinged on the provisions … read more
A car loaded with explosives crashed into the main U.N. building in Nigeria’s capital and exploded Friday, killing at least 18 people in one of the deadliest assaults on the international body in a decade. A radical Muslim sect blamed … read more
At least 18 people have been killed in an apparent suicide car bombing at the United Nations headquarters in the Nigerian capital, Abuja. The powerful blast destroyed the lower floors of the building. Dozens have been injured, some critically. A … read more
It was horror and condemnation galore yesterday in the wake of the bomb blast that rocked the United Nation’s building in Abuja, claiming at least 18 lives. The four-storey building housing the various offices and departments of the United Nations … read more
2002 ‑ Group is founded in Maiduguri, Borno State by Ustaz Mohammed Yusuf. In 2004, he sets up a base camp in neighbouring Kanamma, Yobe State, called “Afghanistan” where only Arabic is allowed spoken. July 26, 2009 – First major … read more
It is now illegal for landlords or their agents to demand, or collect rent in excess of one year, from would-be tenants in Lagos State . This comes as Lagos State governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, yesterday gave his assent to … read more