For years, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has been behind kidnappings and attacks on energy industry targets inside Nigeria. MEND first emerged in late 2005, when it took credit for bombing a Shell oil pipeline … read more
Fishermen and communities along the Atlantic coastline in Akwa Ibom State have urged the management of Mobil Producing Nigeria to accept responsibility for oil spills in the area. The groups were reacting on Monday to Shell Petroleum Development Company’s (SPDC) … read more
Nigeria’s security service is investigating the authenticity of a video released last week which appeared to show a Briton and his Italian colleague saying they had been kidnapped by al Qaeda, Foreign Minister Olugbenga Ashiru told Reuters on Monday. The … read more
Nothing less than 4 million girls in Nigeria do not attend schools, the Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Haijya Zainab Maina, said in a statement released on Sunday. The statement, which was signed by Saghir el-Mohammed, the ministry’s … read more
President Goodluck Jonathan’s proposal to elect presidents and state governors to a single, longer term has sparked debate and considerable backlash. Nigeria’s president and 36 state governors can currently be elected for a maximum of two four-year terms. President Jonathan … read more
Five militants escaped from a prison in Nigeria’s main oil-hub Port Harcourt on Sunday by using their metal beds as ladders to climb over the walls, a spokesman for the prison said. Militants, who say they are fighting for a … read more
A total of 18,163 ex-militants in the Niger Delta region have been trained at the Post-Amnesty Training Camp in Obubra, Cross River. The camp’s Commandant, Frederick Anesah, told newsmen in Obubra on Sunday that the number includes members in the … read more
What started around 2006 in the far-flung North East zone of the country as a child’s play, has become a national disgrace and of international concern. The emergence of a deadly group, whose activities assumed a worrisome dimension in 2009, … read more
The chicken came home to roost last Thursday on the doorsteps of the Nigerian state. If you were ever in any need of evidence about how Nigerian governments, both military and democratic, have betrayed the Nigerian people over the years … read more
Residents of violence-wracked Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Saturday accused soldiers of killing a seven-year old girl in a bid to disperse a crowd scrambling for free grains. “People had gathered to collect grains brought by some relief organisations and … read more