A 32-year-old woman has died shortly after she was delivered of sextuplets in Nigeria’s South-west Ogun state, the private Guardian newspaper reported on Monday. Mrs. Amuda Ajoke Bello, who made history on Saturday by giving birth to sextuplets, died in … read more
A final year student of MacDonald University was reportedly taken hostage before his parents at Mbuoba area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, yesterday. According to spokesman of the Joint Task Force and the army in the state, Lieutenant Col. Sagir … read more
Dr. Kanayo Nwanze, the Nigerian agricultural scientist who excelled as the top researcher for a research project in West Africa, has been elected the new President of the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). Nwanze, who has been the … read more
The Director-General of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), Professor Olusegun Adewoye, says the agency is set to mass produce the digital weighing scale developed and produced by its development institute. Speaking on Monday in Onitsha, in … read more
OOL friends at Drum Cussac sent the following today in their daily alerts. SUMMARY: According to reports on Monday, February 23, at least seven people have been killed during clashes between rival cult groups (gangs) in the Edo State capital … read more
Nigerian security forces repelled an attack by gunmen on an oil terminal operated by Italy’s Agip in the Niger Delta late on Saturday, a military spokesman said. Gunmen in two speedboats attacked Nigerian troops guarding the Twon Brass oil terminal … read more
Police arrested seven people in connection with Muslim-Christian clashes in northern Nigeria as the death toll from the weekend unrest rose to 11, police and Red Cross officials said Monday. “So far the number of those killed stands at 11,” … read more
Thirteen Filipinos convicted and sentenced for stealing crude oil in Nigeria have been given a lawyer by their employer, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Monday. DFA spokesman Bayani Mangibin said the owner of the M/T Akuada had retained a … read more
Gunmen ambushed a busload of football fans travelling to a match in southern Nigeria on Saturday and killed at least six in an apparent revenge attack, police and local officials said. The supporters were travelling from Yenegoa in Bayelsa state … read more
Two Russians abducted in Nigeria’s restive Niger Delta in December have been rescued after escaping from their captors, the Nigerian military said Thursday. The Russians “escaped from an unidentified militant camp” and had been wandering in the creeks for five … read more