ALARM bells were ringing yesterday, as Nigerians continued to import killer vegetables from Europe. At the last count yesterday, 17 people had died, and 1,200 hospitalised, in at least eight European countries, after eating contaminated cucumbers, one of the imported … read more
Wide-ranging reforms to Nigeria’s oil industry will be left to a new parliament to consider but the bill may not have to go back to a first reading, reducing the risk of further long delays, lawmakers said on Wednesday. Uncertainty … read more
Police say that suspected members of a radical sect have killed the brother of the second highest figure in Nigeria’s Muslim community. Borno State police spokesman Lawal Abdullahi said Tuesday that gunmen shot dead Abba Anas Umar on Monday evening … read more
The senate president, David Mark, has blamed the incessant bombing in Nigeria on the ineptitude of the nation’s security agencies. The senate president made the observation on Tuesday after the senate heard and adopted a motion by Ayogu Eze (PDP … read more
May 29, 2011, marked the longest period of time beginning 1999, that Nigeria will have run consecutively on a civil, democratic, setting since independence 50 years ago, in 1960. After years of turmoil, including a devastating civil war lasting three … read more
President Goodluck Jonathan has signed into law a bill specifying punishment for denial of free access to information or destruction of public documents, his office said Tuesday. The bill, which has generated heated controversy in the past five years, spells … read more
The death toll from Friday night’s ‘thank you’ party by departing Governor Bukola Saraki of Nigeria’s central Kwara state has risen to 25, the local media reported Sunday. The state government however put the death toll at 2, while the … read more
An early morning bomb explosion along Baga Road in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, created apprehension among the residents of the city yesterday. The explosion occurred on a day the Chief of Army Staff, Azubuike Ihejirika, confirmed that 13 people … read more
Imagine a scenario where a bomb exploded in Abuja on Democracy Day. It is hard to fathom the sheer terror or the ensuing chaos of trying to call for help and not being able to get through to anyone. Or … read more
President Goodluck Jonathan has started appointing his new administration, a team which will be closely watched for its ability to drive badly-needed reform in Africa’s most populous nation. Jonathan named former Senate president Anyim Pius Anyim as secretary to the … read more