Government security forces were implicated in the deaths of at least 90 of the hundreds of people killed in religious violence in the central Nigerian city of Jos last month, Human Rights Watch said Saturday. At least 400 people died … read more
In what could signal fresh trouble in Nigeria’s oil producing Niger Delta region, the country’s military said Friday that militant groups in the region are training 1,000 new recruits at a camp in South-west Ondo state. A spokesman for the … read more
Two workers of a Russian aluminium company have been kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria, the company says. A statement from UC Rusal said the pair, workers at the Alscon aluminium smelter, were snatched in the town of Ikot Abasi in … read more
Gunmen in speedboats attacked three oil services ships and kidnapped at least two Russians in separate incidents in Nigeria’s Niger Delta, private security and industry sources said on Saturday. The Falcon Crest and Falcon Wings were attacked late on Friday … read more
The 109 Senators and 360 members of the House of Representative will spend a total N15 billion on foreign and local trips in 2009, Daily Trust learnt in Abuja. The Senators are to spend N1.85 billion for international trips and … read more
A Nigerian court fined a former governor of the southwestern state of Edo 3.5 million naira (17,345 pounds) for corruption which he intends paying as an alternative to serving six months in jail. Lucky Igbinedion, who was charged in January … read more
WORRIED by the Federal Government’s alleged refusal to increase workers’ salaries as demanded during the May Day celebration, the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) on Thursday threatened to confront the President Umaru Yar’Adua led-government to obtain a significant wage increase. The … read more
In an unprecedented move, Nigerian journalists have rejected the country’s new Minister of Information and Communication, Prof. Dora Akunyili, saying her deployment to the ministry is ”ill-advised and smacks of the usual disdain with which politicians perceive the media”. The … read more
Two men formerly employed by Willbros International, a subsidiary of Houston-operated engineering and construction company Willbros Group, have been charged in connection with conspiracy to pay $6 million in bribes to government officials in Nigeria and Ecuador, the U.S. Department … read more
Nigerian police have accused eight foreigners of being Islamist fundamentalists, trying to incite violence through their sermons. The men, believed to be six Gambians and two Indians, were arrested at a mosque near the capital Abuja a week ago, police … read more