President Goodluck Jonathan Thursday publicly spoke on the planned removal of fuel subsidy, saying the deregulation of the country’s downstream sector would be done in phases and executed in “deliberate and responsible way”. President Jonathan assured Nigerians that “in the … read more
A Nigerian journalist said Thursday police threatened him with sedition charges over a story he wrote about presidential influencing in the oil-rich nation, as he and six newspaper colleagues were released from custody. Yusuf Alli of The Nation newspaper said … read more
The man whose failed plot contributed to the deployment of full-body scanners at U.S. airports pleaded guilty Wednesday to trying to bring down a jetliner with a bomb in his underwear. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab of Nigeria told a federal judge … read more
Twenty Eastern European sailors have been captured by pirates who seized an oil tanker off the coast of Nigeria, the vessel’s owner said Wednesday. The MT Cape Bird, hijacked about 90 nautical miles from Lagos on Saturday night, is still … read more
The Nigerian Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, on Tuesday warned that the nation could experience food shortage as exporting countries had scaled down exports to address internal shortages, the privately-owned Punch newspaper reported Wednesday. He said some Asian countries, … read more
The Nigerian State Security Service (SSS) Tuesday confirmed that it had arrested a banker, an ally of the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), Henry Okah, for allegedly coordinating the financing of the nation’s 50th … read more
On Sept. 17, a popular Nigerian blogger named Linda Ikeji wrote that she was in possession of an hour-long tape of five students from Abia State University gang-raping a young woman. Ms. Ikeji is a widely followed and popular writer … read more
About 2.5 million residents of Lagos state, representing 14 per cent of its total population, suffer from one form of mental illness or the other, Dr. Jide Idris, the State Commissioner for Health, said here Monday. Addressing a press conference … read more
Nigerian police on Tuesday arrested five senior journalists and two other officials of a Lagos-based private newspaper, the daily said in a statement. The Nation newspaper said in the statement that it believed the arrest was in connection with its … read more
Pirates have hijacked an oil tanker and its crew off the Nigerian coast, the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said. The pirates boarded the tanker, believed to be a Marshall Islands-flagged vessel, on Saturday, IMB manager Cyrus Mody said from London. … read more