Je Suis Nigeria
The great surge of marchers in Paris on Sunday was impressive and very moving but what was it for? We know what it was against: murdering cartoonists – or anyone else – is a bad thing and should not happen. … read more
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Paris marches, Nigeria burns
As the world’s attention was focused on the huge March for Unity in Paris, responding to the Islamist attacks there last week, Nigeria was reeling from a blizzard of attacks by the Boko Haram Islamist extremists that have killed an … read more
Huge fire breaks out in Lagos market
A huge fire broke out in the early hours of Monday in the busy Balogun market in Lagos, the economic hub of Nigeria, the country’s rescue agency said. Spokesperson for the country’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in Lagos Ibrahim … read more
Suicide bomber girls kill three in new Boko Haram blast
Two 10-year-old girls blew themselves up in a busy market, the second horrific attack in days using children by the jihadi extremist group Boko Haram in Nigeria. The two young girls were strapped with explosives, according to eyewitnesses to the … read more
Nigerian Prostitutes Promise 3 Days Of Free Sex If Buhari Wins
As presidential elections in Nigeria coming closer the excitement among different segments of the population is growing. Even prostitutes did not remain indifferent, they promised all Nigerians three days of free sex if General Muhammadu Buhari wins. Members of the … read more
2015: Revisiting Campbell’s Prediction On Nigeria’s Disintegration
Former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria John Campbell, had severally predicted that the country will not exist beyond 2015. LEADERSHIP’s US Bureau chief, ABIODUN OLUWAROTIMI, writes on the possible factors that could make the predictions a reality. Last August, the former … read more
Two killed in attack on Nigeria police station
A terrorist attack on a police station in Nigeria left two people, including a police officer and the suicide bomber, dead Saturday. The suicide bomber targeted the police station in Potiskum town of the northeastern Nigerian state of Yobe, witnesses … read more
Charlie Hebdo terrorist had links with Nigeria’s Mutallab
Said Kouachi, one of France’s Charlie Hebdo terrorists had links to Umar Mutallab, the Nigerian ‘underwear bomber’ who tried to blow up a commercial US flight on Christmas Day in 2009, it has been claimed. The revelation comes as French … read more
Over 7,000 refugees flee to Chad after Nigeria violence
Around 7,300 Nigerian refugees have fled to the neighbouring Chad, over the last 10 days, following violence in northeastern Nigeria, the UN said Friday. Citing the UN Refugee Agency, UN deputy spokesperson, Farhan Haq, said that the newly arrived refugees … read more
Female suicide bomber detonates in Nigeria, killing 19
A young girl with a bomb strapped on her detonated in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno on Saturday, killing 19 people, while a car bomb killed two others in the neighboring state of Yobe, officials say. At about noon … read more