Police in southern Nigeria have raided a purported orphanage where they found 17 pregnant girls, arresting the owner on suspicion of planning to sell their babies, a spokesperson said on Saturday. The owner and a young man “suspected of having … read more
The U.S. Department of State warns U.S. citizens of the risks of travel to Nigeria, and continues to recommend U.S. citizens avoid all but essential travel to the Niger Delta states of Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, and Rivers; the Southeastern … read more
Vice President Namadi Sambo on Friday urged the U.S. to assist Nigeria in training its military and security agencies to address security challenges. Sambo made the appeal when he received the U.S. Deputy Assistant Ambassador, Vickei Huddleston, at the State … read more
Saying that the current regime of subsidies in the pump price of petroleum product in Nigeria is inefficient, corrupt and a waste of scarce national resources, the organized private sector Friday backed President Goodluck Jonathan’s plan to discontinue with the … read more
NIGERIAN Embassy in The Netherlands, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands and Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, avoided taking a risk, weekend, when the prosecution of a Nigerian-Dutch activist, Comrade Sunny Ofehe, by the Netherlands government for alleged pipeline bombing … read more
A prison official says suspected members of a radical Muslim sect shot and killed a prison guard in a northeast Nigeria city beset by assassinations carried out by the group. Prison comptroller Usman Kaina Maina said two gunmen with the … read more
Popular Nigerian comedian Baba Suwe has been detained at Lagos airport on suspicion of drug trafficking. He was arrested as he was about to board a flight to Paris after a body scanner identified suspected drugs in his stomach, an … read more
Nigeria’s Institute of Public Relations criticized the government’s decision to end fuel subsidies for the populace, noting that many Nigerians live below poverty level and that the removal of the fuel subsidy would aggravate hardships and possibly lead to the … read more
Chief Dr Judith Burdin Asuni (the Omotoyibo Rovie of Ughelli Kingdom) is the executive director Academic Associates Peace Work, a nongovernmental organization. She has been in Nigeria since 1971 and has been actively involved in driving the peace process in … read more
A Nigerian woman, Bidemi Bello, has been sentenced to 140 months in jail by a United States Court on human trafficking charges. The 42-year-old Nigerian, who became a US citizen while she committed the crime, was also ordered by District … read more