Three bomb blasts have hit a northeastern Nigerian city as many were feared dead, a Xinhua witness said on Monday. The blast occurred late Sunday ahead of Nigeria’s state governorship election slated on Tuesday. Xinhua reporter in Maiduguri, the state … read more
Suspects detained in post-election violence have rioted at an overcrowded jail in northern Nigeria and more than a dozen of them escaped, a prisons official said on Saturday. Andrew Barka, controller of prisons in Adamawa state, said 18 of the … read more
Politicians and military leaders – not militants – are responsible for the majority of oil thefts in Nigeria’s crude-rich southern delta, according to a U.S. diplomatic cable quoting a Nigerian official and released by WikiLeaks. A member of a government … read more
A man has been arrested by CPC members in Agwara Local Government Area of Niger State for allegedly printing voter’s cards with Direct Data Capturing machine. The House of Representatives candidate of the CPC, Barrister Mouktar Nasale, told our correspondent … read more
The refusal of Tunde Bakare, the vice presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), to sign a postdated letter of resignation, has been largely blamed for the collapse of the alliance talks between the CPC and the Action … read more
Officials tasked the four young college graduates with monitoring election stations during Nigeria’s presidential vote. Then when the poll results unleashed sectarian violence, an angry mob killed them by locking them inside their youth hostel and setting it ablaze. Dozens … read more
At least two suspected bomb-makers were killed in a blast in Kaduna in northern Nigeria on Saturday, a city at the centre of post-election violence in which hundreds of people are thought to have died this week. A security source … read more
Nigeria’s new president offers hope to disillusioned young people, but he needs all the luck he can get to govern a country riven by unemployment and religious conflict IT MIGHT HAVE been Nigeria’s cleanest poll to date. But just as … read more
In 1999, Bola Tinubu emerged as the governor of Lagos State on the platform of the defunct Alliance for Democracy (AD). He went on to emerge returning governor in 2003, during a period the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) swept up … read more
The Nigeria police have arrested a suspect in the killing of a 50-year-old Spanish doctor who was said to be on vacation in Nigeria at the time of his death. On Thursday night, the police in Lagos paraded a 21-year-old … read more