The governor of Nigeria’s central Plateau state on Tuesday accused the country’s military commanders of ignoring warnings of a weekend attack which claimed hundreds of lives of mainly Christian villagers. Jonah Jang said the carnage could have been avoided was … read more
Nigeria’s federal government has suspended the Director-General of the country’s privatisation agency, the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Dr. Christopher A nyanwu, the private Thisday newspaper reported Tuesday. The paper quoted a letter signed by the Secretary to the Government … read more
Fresh gunfire has sent Christian villagers in Nigeria fleeing as a senior official accused the country’s military chiefs of having ignored warnings about last weekend’s massacre. Residents of a mainly Christian settlement near the central city of Jos fled to … read more
CHAIRMAN, Infrastructure Sub-Committee of the Amnesty programme and Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Chief Ufot Ekaette, said, yesterday, the proposed new towns would be sited in selected oil producing communities in the nine states which make up the Niger Delta … read more
Though the latest Muslim-Christian killings have nothing to do with Nigeria’s current constitutional crisis, triggered by a long illness to President Umaru Yar’Adua, they illustrate graphically the dangers when drift and dither replace swift decision making. The Christian-dominated Government of … read more
Officials and human rights groups in Nigeria sharply increased the count of the dead after a weekend of vicious ethnic violence, saying Monday that as many as 500 people — many of them women and children — may have been … read more
United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Ms. Robin Rene Sanders, has called on Nigerian authorities to take decisive steps to address extremists from outside the country, who according to her, have footholds in Nigeria. This, she said, would help to put … read more
The South African who was being held hostage in Nigeria was released on Monday evening, the department of international relations said. Nick Greyling, an M-Net Supersport sound engineer, has been released from his captors, spokesperson Nomfanelo Kota told reporters. “The … read more
Dozens of villagers were killed Sunday in a northern Nigerian city, witnesses said, in what appears to be a fresh bout of violence between Muslims and Christians in Africa’s most populous country. The witnesses and local aid officials reported widespread … read more
A medical source to ailing Nigerian leader, Umaru Yar’Adua, has reiterated to Saharareporters that the Nigerian “president” still can’t speak or walk around as is being bandied around by his cronies in recent newspaper and cable channel reports in the … read more