Nigeria’s lower house of parliament has approved a deal in which offenders convicted in Britain will serve out their jail terms in their home country. The agreement still requires approval from the Senate, where it is likely to pass soon. … read more
If what the Minister of Health, Dr. Onyebuchi Chukwu said recently is anything to go by, then we may soon see a sharp drop in the incidence of sending public officers abroad for medical treatment. Explaining the impending policy to … read more
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will no longer allow oil companies to buy U.S. dollars at its auctions to fund oil product importation because the firms should use the foreign exchange they earn from exporting crude oil, the CBN … read more
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has urged the National Assembly not to pass a bill seeking to authorize e-surveillance of telephone calls by the security agencies, as part of efforts to check the worsening insecurity in the country. In … read more
The 36 state governors and the Federal Government yesterday rose from the National Economic Council (NEC) meeting and agreed that fuel subsidy should be removed as it was not contributing to the expected well-being of the citizens of Nigeria. In … read more
Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency has arrested three former state governors for allegedly embezzling funds amounting to $674m (£436m). The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said the former governors of Ogun, Oyo and Nasarawa states faced a series of charges. They … read more
More than five million telephone subscribers in Nigeria were cut off when protesters attacked an exchange of India-owned Airtel, one of the west African nation’s biggest telecom firms, it said Thursday. The protesters, members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), … read more
Abuja, Nigeria’s sparkling new capital, is a city under siege. In August, Boko Haram, a shadowy and violent Muslim sect operating in the northeastern part of the country, bombed a building housing staff of the United Nations in the central … read more
The judge in the trial of a Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a plane with a bomb in his underwear has dismissed a juror from the defendent’s home country. About a half-hour after 12 jurors and four … read more
Unknown assailants have shot dead two people in an attack on a village in Nigeria’s central volatile and violence-wracked Plateau State, a government spokesman and a witness said. The assailants late Tuesday attacked one house in Tanjol village in Riyom … read more