The United States has granted Nigerian airlines permission for direct US flights, officials said Monday, less than a year after a Nigerian allegedly tried to blow up a Detroit-bound plane. US ambassador to Nigeria Robin Renee Sanders lauded Nigeria on … read more
A Nigerian businessman is challenging a decision to bar him from Britain, in a landmark public clash over the use of US-style bans on foreign nationals allegedly involved in corruption and other organised crime. The individual, a 51-year- old who … read more
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is now stalled in preparing a time-table for next year’s election following the power play between the Presidency and the National Assembly over the amended 1999 Constitution. Not even a tentative time table has … read more
Nigeria has decisively reclaimed the mantle of Africa’s top oil producer, with rising output and crude prices spurring growth in the continent’s most populous country. But the same industry driving the economy – oil – faces a host of potential … read more
Two months ago, Bala Mohammed, minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), gave all commercial sex workers in Abuja two days to quit or leave the city. The territory’s Social Development Secretariat which was mandated to implement the order, has … read more
Saudi authorities have told Nigerian Hajj officials that people who performed the pilgrimage within the past five years will not be given visas to go to Hajj this year. In a note verbale to the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria … read more
All legal impediments to the 2011 general elections in Nigeria have been cleared with the signing into law of the 2010 Electoral Bill and the release of 87.7 billion Naira for the compilation of a new voters’ register (US$1=150 Naira). … read more
What sort of hanky-panky is going on at the official website of the Federal Republic of Nigeria paid for by the hard-working Nigerian Tax Payers? http://nigeria.gov.ng/ It may look like an official government website but click on BLOG at the … read more
The Rev Colin Coward, 64, a priest at St John the Baptist church in Devizes, Wilts, is to enter into a civil partnership with his boyfriend Bobby Egbele, 25. The union has caused a stir among Christians because the couple … read more
The death toll from a cholera outbreak in northern Nigerian has risen to 231 while 4,600 others have been infected, Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said on Thursday. “As of two or three days ago, the figure we have in the … read more