Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations Susan Rice has called on Nigeria to hasten efforts in deploying its peacekeepers to strife-torn Somalia, according to the News Agency of Nigeria reports on Saturday. Nigeria has recently pledged … read more
Up to 400 foreign prisoners are being repatriated after ministers reached a deal with Nigeria after months of negotiating. The move paves the way for hundreds more foreign criminals to be deported. Gordon Brown has vowed that thousands of foreign … read more
Nigerian newspapers were dominated this week with the move by the Federal Government to cut down on expenditures of political office holders’ salaries. Also on the front burner of the national dailies was the story on the suspension of the … read more
Former Nigeria’s Vice President and national leader of the Action Congress, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has faulted the move by the Rivers State government to declare a death penalty for people found guilty of kidnapping in the state. Alhaji Abubakar, who … read more
A FRESH twist occurred yesterday in the trial of the Leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), Mr. Henry Okah for alleged treason, as Mr. Justice Stephen Adah of the Federal High Court Jos, who had … read more
The authorities of the University of Abuja yesterday said the report of kidnap of one of its students as reported in some national dailies is complete falsehood. A newspaper report said the armed bandits invaded the university on Thursday and … read more
Output at Nigeria’s Bonny Light crude terminal, operated by Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile, Research), has fallen to around 90,000 barrels per day because of security concerns in the Niger Delta, a senior official with state-run NNPC said on … read more
Nigeria defended its human rights record at the Universal periodic review mechanism of the UN Human Rights Council and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Ojo Madueke, presented an overview of Nigeria’s human rights policies and adressed issues on the … read more
Kidnapping, which seemed to have been confined to the Niger Delta where gunmen are holding sway, may have been shifted to the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT) Abuja. Yesterday, the ugly trend reared its head in Abuja as some armed bandits … read more
President Umaru Yar’Adua, on Thursday, said that Nigeria and Switzerland were working on the repatriation of other batches of looted funds to the country from the European country The President disclosed this while receiving the Letters of Credence of the … read more