Nigeria (AP) — The top portion of one of the tallest buildings in Nigeria’s main city sheared off during a storm Wednesday, raining debris onto mostly empty streets below but leaving at least two people dead, witnesses said. Part of … read more
Six gangsters and three police officers were killed in southern Nigeria when security forces tried to search a house ahead of a controversial census, police said today. A gunbattle broke out in the southern Nigerian market town of Nnewi when … read more
Rivers State Government have announced ZERO movement from midnight tonight until 16:00hrs tomorrow. read more
The family of an American being held hostage in Nigeria made a public plea for his release Monday. The family of 23 year old Cody Oswalt, some 25 of them, gathered in a car port at his grandmother’s house in … read more
The first attempt in 15 years to measure just how many people live in Africa’s most populous nation starts today, in an exercise so likely to fan religious, tribal and regional rivalries some say Nigerians are better left uncounted. At … read more
Rebels in the Niger Delta have threatened a guerilla war against Abuja if it fails to back down on the third term. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) warned Deputy Senate President, Ibrahim Mantu, and Rivers … read more
Niger Delta youths under the Umbrella of Ikwerre Youth Congress (IYC) have threatened to deal decisively with pipeline vandals in the Niger Delta region should the perpetrators refuse to refrain from their actions. The leader of the group, Prince Charles … read more
Less than 24 hours to the 2006 census, a bloody boundary dispute has erupted between the Irele community and the Ijaw of Taribo in Ondo State, Nigeria, leaving at least six people dead. The Idoma of Benue State have also … read more
Hope is rather thin that the three foreign oil workers, two Americans and one Briton, held by insurgents could be released soon. Feelers from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said the captives may not savour … read more
Rivers State Government on Sunday threatened to shut any business premises whose owners would not be available to be counted during the census. The Commissioner for Information, Mr. Magnus Abe, who is also the chairman of the state Census Monitoring … read more