At first glance Tunde Ogunrinde appears completely at home in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos. Armed with a winning smile, the 42 year old chats easily with the staff working behind the till at fast-food restaurant Chicken Republic. But this is … read more
Nigeria is moving to stop a $7.5 billion consumer-fuel subsidy because the government says it can better spend those funds improving public services. Trade unions oppose the move, saying it will force up the cost of living. Africa’s largest oil … read more
Members of a radical Islamist sect shot dead three people in northeast Nigeria on Wednesday, authorities said, the latest in a string of attacks in the remote region of Africa’s most populous nation. Boko Haram, whose names means “Western education … read more
Kidnapping of persons and abduction of any kind for ransom is to attract a life jail term under a new law put forward by the House of Representatives. The law prescribes life imprisonment for kidnapping, while attempts at the act, … read more
CHAIRMAN, Nigeria Governors’ Forum and Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, has advised Nigerians to troop to the streets in protest if withdrawal of fuel subsidy does not improve their lives. Speaking as a discussant at the 41st annual conference of … read more
The lines between al-Qaida, Islamic extremism in Africa, and wider insecurity in the continent’s most populous nation, Nigeria, are converging. Most attention is devoted to the first two challenges, but the time has come to broaden the conversation. In a … read more
According to NAPTIP, sixty per cent of the prostitutes in Turin and Antwerp are known to be Nigerian women and girls The House of Representatives says it will push for stronger anti-trafficking legislation to improve Nigeria’s increasingly notorious human trafficking … read more
The assassination of a member of parliament, an attack on an army barracks and the recent bombing of the United Nations offices in Abuja show that Boko Haram, the Islamic extremist group, is growing in ambition and capability and threatening … read more
Nigeria’s military on Tuesday said it had arrested 50 suspected oil thieves in the past three months and destroyed some 2,000 illicit refineries this year in the oil-producing Niger Delta region. While unrest in the region has sharply declined since … read more
Exxon Mobil Corp.’s Nigerian unit said armed men attacked a supply vessel near its oil facilities offshore the southern state of Akwa Ibom yesterday. “Operation is normal, and production has not been impacted,” Ozemoya Okordion, a spokesman based in Lagos, … read more