Emergency authorities in Nigeria say an explosion has struck near a Catholic church close to Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. National Emergency Management Agency spokesman Yushau Shuaib and a local police spokesman, Richard Oguche, said the blast happened Sunday morning as the … read more
Two bombs exploded during Christmas church service at a Catholic church today in Madalla near Suleja, Niger state killing at least 20 persons and injuring several others. Christmas day worshippers at St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, Madalla near Abuja in Niger … read more
A government official says a second explosion has struck near a church in Nigeria, this time targeting a church in the restive central Nigerian city of Jos. Government spokesman Pam Ayuba told The Associated Press the blast struck Sunday near … read more
Royal Dutch Shell’s Nigerian oil spill, the largest in the African nation since 1998, highlights the different world responses to oil spills. Nigerian authorities on Thursday put emergency measures in place to prevent the spill of less than 40,000 barrels … read more
Clashes between a violent Islamist sect and security forces in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Damaturu have killed at least 24 people in the past day, police said on Friday. A sustained gun battle broke out between Nigerian security forces and … read more
Telecoms operators in the country now charge their subscribers N100 to register their new SIM cards in the open market. When the SIM registration exercise started March 28, subscribers were not charged. But Daily Trust findings in Abuja and Lagos … read more
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Sanusi Lamido, on Thursday said the Federal Government lost about 16 billion dollars in 2011 to oil subsidy. Lamido said this at the Second Town Hall Meeting of the Nigerian Proprietors Association of … read more
An oil spill near the coast of Nigeria is probably the worst to hit those waters in a decade, a government official said Thursday, as slicks from the Royal Dutch Shell PLC spill approached the country’s southern shoreline. The slick … read more
A sustained gun battle broke out between Nigerian security forces and suspected Islamist militants in the northern city of Damaturu on Thursday, and several explosions were heard, witnesses and the local police commissioner said. Confrontations between security forces and the … read more
The Nigerian government has not decided on when it will remove oil subsidy, Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said on Thursday. She said the government was still engaged in dialogue with all opinion groups concerning the issue, after which the President … read more