The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has rejected the UN report on the widespread oil pollution in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region, and renewed its vow to launch fresh attacks against oil firms operating in the area. … read more
The security challenges in the North-east geopolitical zone may proliferate and engulf the entire nation if unchecked, the chairman of the Presidential Committee on Security Challenge, Gaji Galtimari has warned. Mr Galtimari, who was speaking when the committee paid a … read more
Pirate attacks off the coast of west Africa have increased sharply, figures show, raising fears that the region could emulate Somalia as a menace to shipping. Nigeria and Benin have reported 22 piracy incidents so far this year, including two … read more
Nigeria’s ministry of defence has said that it will investigate allegations that military personnel mishandled attacks by an Islamist group. The announcement came after a woman was shot dead on Wednesday in clashes between members of the government’s Joint Task … read more
Nigeria has extradited a man to the United States for his alleged role in a multi-nation scam that defrauded law firms of more than 30 million dollars. Nigerian officials said Friday the suspect, Emmanuel Ekhator, who is Nigerian, was handed … read more
Nigerian authorities said Thursday they would probe all cases of misconduct by a “few bad eggs” among troops who commit crimes against civilians while trying to battle Islamists in northeast of the country. “A few bad eggs amongst them sometimes … read more
Central Bank Governor Lamido Sanusi and former World Bank chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will spearhead the immediate future of Africa’s third-largest economy, but how they deal with tensions between them will determine their success. Okonjo-Iweala is expected to arrive this month … read more
Dozens of people suspected to be victims of the 1996 Pfizer Trovan test in Kano on Thursday staged a peaceful demonstration at the venue where officials of the Meningitis Trust Fund presented compensation cheques to relatives of four of the … read more
Some 85% of Nigerian roads are in bad condition, according to a federal government agency, Rural Access and Mobility Project (RAMP). The local media on Thursday quoted the National Coordinator of RAMP, Mr. Ubandoma Ularamu, as saying only 15% of … read more
Officers of the State Security Service (SSS) in Kogi State have started monitoring preaching in mosques and churches, as part of measures to prevent religious crisis in the state. The state director of SSS, Mike Fubara, told journalists in Lokoja … read more