Nigerian anti-corruption agencies have recorded more than 100 convictions on economic and financial crimes since the beginning of the year. Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Magu disclosed the number in the commercial capital Lagos. He … read more
The wife of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is set to visit him in Britain where he is receiving medical treatment, her spokesman said on Monday, weeks after she last visited him and said he was recovering quickly. The ailing president … read more
Nigeria’s central bank and its telecoms industry regulator have intervened to save the country’s fourth largest telecoms firm from collapse after talks with local banks to renegotiate a $1.2 billion loan failed, a regulatory source said on Tuesday. Etisalat Nigeria … read more
An oil tanker carrying 38,000 tonnes of petrol to Guatemala, collided with the Huayan Endeavor cargo ship on its way from the Netherlands to Nigeria in the English Channel. The English Channel separates southern England from northern France, and links … read more
Boko Haram fighters have been found among refugees returning to northeast Nigeria, local authorities report. At least nine Boko Haram insurgents and 100 accomplices were identified among 920 Nigerian refugees who returned from Marwa in Cameroon on Wednesday, the agency’s … read more
The soldiers arrived in the middle of the night, tearing through the village of Nigerian refugees, barging into stick huts where families slept in knots on the floor. For years, those refugees had been on the run from Boko Haram … read more
There was confusion in Abuja on Thursday between the Residents of Games Village Estate and the leader of the Lebanese community, Albert Alwan, for allegedly blocking the road to the estate with a container. The Lebanese community was said to … read more
Nigeria’s health minister has declared that the outbreak of meningitis in the country is over, but only after it killed 1,166 people, most’, of’ them children. “We have formally declared the meningitis outbreak over,” Isaac Adewole told reporters in the … read more
The European Union (EU) Ambassador to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Michel Arrion, says EU will not increase its financial assistance to Nigeria. Mr. Arrion made this known in Abuja while delivering a Distinguished Lecture organised by the IBB Golf Club, with … read more
Nigeria’s state-owned oil company said it signed a deal with Schlumberger Ltd. to provide $700 million for the development of two oil fields in the country’s crude-rich south. The Anyala and Madu fields, estimated to have reserves of 193 million … read more