The cleric in charge of St. Theresa’s Catholic Church in Madalla, near Nigeria’s capital city of Abuja, Very Rev. Isaac Achi, has put the death toll from the Christmas Day bombing of the church at 43, with 73 injured. The … read more
At least four people have been killed and several others wounded due to a bomb explosion in Maiduguri on Friday. A Maiduguri resident and eyewitness said the blast occurred near a local Mosque while people were finishing Friday prayers. “There … read more
President Goodluck Jonathan summoned his security chiefs for an emergency meeting on Thursday, the police chief said, to discuss a growing Islamist militant threat after Christmas Day bombs on churches and other targets. The attacks – the deadliest was on … read more
Attackers threw explosives and fired shots at an open-air bar in northeastern Nigeria, residents said Thursday, but no one was reported hurt amid a wave of violence blamed on Islamists. The attack occurred in the city of Gombe on Wednesday … read more
The last six months have been filled with raging debate over proposed removal of fuel subsidy in Nigeria. The cantankerous issue is not new, but has never been dealt with decisively, thus coming and going like Soyinka’s Abiku and pitching … read more
The Delta Police Command on Wednesday said seven people were hospitalised following Tuesday’s explosion at an Arabic school in Sapele,southern Delta state. Police spokesman Charles Muka told journalists in Asaba, the state capital, that the incident occurred at about 9.40 … read more
Armed Fulani herdsmen shot dead three members of a family in an attack in Nigeria’s ethnically and religiously mixed Plateau state on Wednesday, witnesses and officials said. Plateau is a tinderbox of ethnic and religious rivalries over land and power … read more
Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency said 80 people have been confirmed dead from Christmas Eve blasts in the central city of Jos. “The death toll has increased to 80 as at yesterday,” Yushau Shuaib, a spokesman for the agency known … read more
The warning signs are familiar. An armed group begins by imposing the strictures of Islamic sharia on a Muslim population, using first moral persuasion and then actual violence. Having secured its hold over a region where central government has little … read more
Officials with Royal Dutch Shell PLC say they’ve contained the worst Nigeria offshore oil spill in more than a decade. Shell officials said on Monday that the Dec 20 spill that saw less than 40 000 barrels of oil pouring … read more