The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has directed the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) to work with operating oil and gas companies to evaluate existing machine shops, dock yards, fabrication yards and other facilities which can … read more
Boko Haram has killed nearly 300 people so far this year, compared to only about 700 during the previous three years. Most of the violence has been in Kano, a northern, largely Moslem, city of nine million. In the last … read more
Gunmen suspected to be members of the violent Islamic sect Boko Haram have killed six persons, including two Nigerian Air Force officers, in Nigeria’s northern Borno state since Monday, the private Nation newspaper reported Wednesday, quoting police and military spokespersons. … read more
Embattled former Chief Security Officer to late Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, has appealed the verdict of the Lagos High court which sentenced him to death by hanging. Al-Mustapha, in the notice of appeal filed on Tuesday, said the death … read more
Nigerians may witness another round of fuel crisis as the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas workers (NUPENG) Tuesday directed its Petrol Tanker Drivers’ section (PTD) to suspend the loading of petrol in all the tank farms across the … read more
A bomb exploded at the premises of the Taraba Ministry of Finance on Monday, destroying part of the building and damaging valuable items. The bomb exploded at about 8.45 a.m. when workers were resuming for work after the weekend break. … read more
A spokesman for the Islamist group Boko Haram has rejected a call by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan for talks and threatened fresh attacks, if captured members of his group were not freed. “They should expect imminent attacks on Sokoto [a … read more
The radical Islamist group has dominated headlines in recent weeks following a series of attacks that targeted Muslims and Christians in oil-rich Nigeria. But the ferocity of the attacks has sparked doubts about whether the group was the real mastermind … read more
Gunmen suspected of being members of the Islamist sect Boko Haram attacked a police station in Nigeria’s Kano state on Friday, police and witnesses said, leading to more than an hour of running gun battles. Kano state and its capital … read more
When Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan challenged the militant Boko Haram Islamist group to identify themselves days after a series of deadly attacks in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, quite a few Nigerians were puzzled. Jonathan noted that if the … read more