The number of people who died in the New Year’s eve communal violence in Nigeria’s South-Eastern state of Ebonyi has increased to 67 after the discovery of more bodies, the local Nation newspaper reported Monday. The paper said youths combing … read more
PROTESTS broke out in different parts of the country on Monday, as labour unions threatened to paralyse the country over the removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government. In Lagos, Ilorin, Kano, Abuja and other cities, there were protests … read more
Southern Nigerians could take up arms to fight northern Boko Haram Islamists, and are holding back only out of respect for the president, a former militant leader from the oil-rich Niger Delta said on Monday. Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, a Muslim who … read more
Minority Christians in the north Nigerian town of Damatura are fleeing to the south of the country after being told to get out by militant Islamists. They have been given three days by the Boko Haram group to leave after … read more
Nigerian officials have suspended fishing off the southern coast after about 40,000 barrels (1.7 million gallons) of crude oil was spilled from a Shell production platform in the Bonga oil field. The oil leaked into the Atlantic Ocean on December … read more
Heavily armed troops and tanks patrolled the streets of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria Sunday, witnesses said, after the president declared a state of emergency in parts of the north affected by an Islamist insurgency. President Goodluck Jonathan imposed the state … read more
A coalition of civil society organizations, under the aegis of the Joint Action Front (JAF), is due to kick-start the protest against the plan by the federal government to remove fuel subsidy with a rally in the economic capital city … read more
Nigeria is cleaning up its’ image in the eyes of millions of air passengers who pass through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos, terminal building yearly, as the Federal Government has begun expanding and renovating the 32 year old … read more
Nigerian villagers say oil washing up on the coast comes from a Royal Dutch Shell loading accident last month that caused the biggest spill in Africa’s top producer in more than 13 years. Shell denies that any of the oil … read more
Islamic militants in Nigeria gave Christians three days to leave the north following President Goodluck Jonathan’s declaration of a state of emergency in four northern states. Boko Haram, a Taliban-inspired group that has carried out a series of raids and … read more