(Reuters) – Britain needs to enforce money laundering regulations more strictly after some of its leading high street banks accepted millions of pounds in deposits from corrupt Nigerian politicians, a graft watchdog said on Monday. Global Witness said in a … read more
President Goodluck Jonathan, at the weekend ordered the deployment of over 2000 soldiers to Abia State and environs in a determined efforts to rid the state of criminals. A competent Police source, presently in Aba, one of the commercial cities … read more
Suspected radical Islamists on Saturday shot dead an outspoken cleric in the latest of a series of killings in Nigeria blamed on a sect that staged a bloody uprising last year, police said. Two gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead … read more
A federal judge has allowed Nigeria’s secret police to hold four suspects for an additional two weeks of questioning over the car bombs that struck the nation’s capital during an independence ceremony. Chief Magistrate Oyeyeola Oyewumi’s decision Friday gives Nigeria’s … read more
Self determination, luck and strong-will rather than adequate preparations has kept Nigeria’s flag flying high at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India. The athletes had been unable to embark on foreign tours to help sharpen their skills and … read more
The country may have effectively gained entry into the world’s ignoble chart of countries where bomb blasting terrorists have successfully penetrated to prosecute their evil inclinations and turn people’s lives into one big living hell. Before now, the country was … read more
Lax security agencies put Nigeria on the spot “We were on duty around Bayelsa court,” said a police constable, who was one of those wounded at the Independence Day bomb blast in Abuja. Agbo Ochife said after the first bomb … read more
They seemed designed to kill: two car bomb blasts within minutes of one another, on a busy road near the area where the country’s leaders and foreign dignitaries had gathered on independence day. The attack on Friday, the first of … read more
President Goodluck Jonathan criticised Wednesday the politicisation of last week’s independence day bombings and denied absolving a rebel group that claimed responsibility, officials said. Jonathan said everything possible would be done to find those behind the October 1 blasts that … read more
An allegation by MEND leader Henry Okah, that President Goodluck Jonathan wanted him to compel the militant group to retract its claim of responsibility for the Abuja blast so he (President) can blame the attacks on his Northern political opponents, … read more