So far this year 14 schools have been burnt down in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, northern Nigeria, forcing over 7,000 children out of formal education and pushing down enrolment rates in an already ill-educated region. In a video … read more
Royal Dutch Shell PLC is considering $4 billion worth of onshore projects in Nigeria to help capture natural gas currently burning at oil wells that contribute to global warming and can sicken those living nearby, the company’s CEO said Wednesday. … read more
Ex-Nigerian state Governor James Ibori, who was jailed 13 years in London on Tuesday after pleading guilty to money laundering charges, will face another trial after serving his term, Nigeria’s anti-graft agency said. In a statement, the Economic and Financial … read more
Following a United States warning to her citizens yesterday to be wary of visiting any major hotel in the Federal Capital Territory or elsewhere in the country over threats of another Boko Haram attack, the federal government has warned envoys … read more
Nigeria oil militant group Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said on Saturday it would soon commence massive attacks against South Africa’s investments in Nigeria, especially mobile telecommunications company, MTN, to protest the continued detention of its … read more
In a quarter-century, at the rate Nigeria is growing, 300 million people – a population about as big as that of the present-day United States – will live in a country the size of Arizona and New Mexico. In this … read more
Air Nigeria will commence daily flight operations from Lagos to London on Monday, May 16, says the Chairman of the airline, Dr Jimoh Ibrahim, on Saturday. Ibrahim told media executives and editors in Lagos that the company had also finalised … read more
Travelling abroad for medical treatment with public funds may not be so easy for public officers any more, if the federal government approves a planned law to that effect. The Minister of Health Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu disclosed this to journalists … read more
French oil firm Total SA said on Saturday that a natural gas leak at one of its plants in Nigeria’s crude-rich southern delta may have been going on for weeks. The leak at its Obite natural gas site has forced … read more
Disturbed by the threat issued by the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram against President Goodluck Jonathan, the Nigerian Air Force in Kaduna on Saturday embarked on a 10 kilometer route match to declare its readiness against any threat to the … read more