The former chairman and chief executive of KBR Inc. and his U.K.-based middleman were sentenced Thursday for their roles in a decade-long, $182 million bribery scheme. Albert “Jack” Stanley, the former head of KBR who pleaded guilty in 2008 to … read more
Police discovered the body of a 79-year-old Christian woman killed in northeast Nigeria, with a note in Arabic left on her chest reading: “We will get you soon”, a witness said. The slaying raises religious tensions in Nigeria as a … read more
Nigeria will stop granting waivers to foreign oil firms to import key equipment for oil and gas project from April next year, as it seeks to keep 68 percent of its annual $20 billion oil spend in the country, THISDAY … read more
Nigeria’s federal government has inaugurated a Lassa fever Rapid Response Committee in an attempt to curtail the spread of the disease which has killed 40 people in 12 of the country’s 36 states in recent times. The private Vanguard newspaper … read more
Women’s dressing has become the site for pernicious policing and debates about social and moral decay in Africa, with calls for intervention within Nigeria’s higher education institutions, by religious organisations, and the media. Over the past decade, some universities ↑ … read more
The two chambers of the Nigerian national assembly — the Senate and the House of representatives — Wednesday passed the 2011 national budget of 4,971.8 trillion naira (150 naira = US$ 1). Based on a benchmark oil price of US$ … read more
A gas-fuelled fire, with flames as high as 5m, may burn for months in waters off the Niger Delta in south-east Nigeria, Chevron has told the BBC. Two workers died after January’s explosion at the KS Endeavour exploration rig, owned … read more
A Brisbane woman fleeced Nigerian scam artists by stealing more than $30,000 from their internet car sales racket, a court has been told. Sarah Jane Cochrane-Ramsey, 23, was employed by the Nigerians as an “agent” in March 2010 but was … read more
THE fuel scarcity witnessed in some cities, including Port-Harcourt, Abuja, Ilorin and Asaba, is spreading to some other places nationwide. Already, signs of shortage in supply of petrol has been seen in Ibadan, Osogbo, Ado-Ekiti, Ilorin, Owerri, Kano, Sokoto and … read more
Workers in Nigeria face escalating attacks on their livelihoods following the betrayal of last month’s national general strike against the regime of President Goodluck Jonathan. The Peoples Democratic Party government has utilised the treachery of the trade union bureaucracy to … read more