The Pentagon’s shadow war in Africa could have a new front, if reports coming out of Nigeria are accurate. U.S. troops are headed to Nigeria to help local forces do battle with Boko Haram, an Islamic terror group that has … read more
A violent Islamist sect responsible for scores of killings in northeast Nigeria is increasingly linking up with global jihadist movements like al Qaeda, a military commander in the area told Reuters Thursday. Lieutenant Colonel Hassan Mohammed, a senior military official … read more
The U.S. Embassy in Abuja, Nigeria, issued a warning Nov. 5 indicating it had received intelligence that the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram may have been planning to bomb several targets in the Nigerian capital during the Muslim holiday of … read more
PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN recently invited a group of businessmen to a cattle ranch for a retreat to discuss how to generate faster economic growth. At one point he handed the assembled notables unmarked brown envelopes. Raised eyebrows rippled around the … read more
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has asked the Nigerian government to pay US$65,000 in damages to the family of the slain founder of extremist Islamist group, Boko Haram. HRW, a United States human rights lobby group said the government must also … read more
Following the outbreak of fresh crises in Kafanchan and Zonkwa yesterday, Nigeria’s Kaduna State government has imposed a 24 hour curfew in the affected areas in the southern part of state. From what P.M.News gathered this evening, the crises in … read more
Royal Dutch Shell’s failure to mop up two oil spills in the Niger Delta has caused huge suffering to locals whose fisheries and farmland were poisoned, and it must pay $1 billion to start cleaning up the region, Amnesty International … read more
Nigeria’s secret police on Wednesday detained a youth leader organising a protest over a government proposal to remove fuel subsidies, which would result in higher pump prices, his organisation said. The head of the National Youth Council of Nigeria, Wale … read more
United States Embassy in Nigeria Wednesday released a security update which relaxed the emergency warning it issued at the weekend in which it warned US citizens to avoid certain luxury hotels in Abuja. The security update is coming on the … read more
FOLLOWING the seizure of a Malta flagged vessel by pirates in Nigeria, the International Maritime Organisation, (IMO) has warned vessels owners on the danger of sailing to Nigeria. Confirming the development the influential International Maritime Bureau (IMB) stated, weekend, that … read more