At least two suspected bomb-makers were killed in a blast in Kaduna in northern Nigeria on Saturday, a city at the centre of post-election violence in which hundreds of people are thought to have died this week. A security source … read more
Nigeria’s new president offers hope to disillusioned young people, but he needs all the luck he can get to govern a country riven by unemployment and religious conflict IT MIGHT HAVE been Nigeria’s cleanest poll to date. But just as … read more
In 1999, Bola Tinubu emerged as the governor of Lagos State on the platform of the defunct Alliance for Democracy (AD). He went on to emerge returning governor in 2003, during a period the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) swept up … read more
The Nigeria police have arrested a suspect in the killing of a 50-year-old Spanish doctor who was said to be on vacation in Nigeria at the time of his death. On Thursday night, the police in Lagos paraded a 21-year-old … read more
Since the April 9 election of the next set of National Assembly members in which the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lost almost all the seats it presently holds in the South-west states, some politicians and commentators have been making statements … read more
Corpses have been loaded onto a truck and women have tried to block the smell of decay while fleeing Zonkwa in northern Nigeria, as government officials say next week’s governor elections in two state cannot go ahead because of the … read more
President Goodluck Jonathan announced Thursday that a judicial commission of inquiry would be set up to find out the immediate and remote causes of the post-election violence in some parts of the north, which left dozens dead, hundreds injured and … read more
Reneging on his earlier promise not to contest the outcome of Saturday’s presidential election in Nigeria, one of the losing candidates in the election, Muhammadu Buhari, has said he will mount a legal challenge against the outcome of the poll. … read more
A police inspector was killed in a bomb explosion in northeast Nigeria’s Borno State, the police said on Thursday. State police spokesperson Mai Mamman disclosed this to reporters in Maiduguri, the state capital, saying the bomb was thrown at a … read more
President Goodluck Jonathan said Thursday that next week’s gubernatorial elections will go ahead, despite the riots that have left more than 100 dead and forced 40,000 others to flee following the recent presidential vote in Africa’s most populous nation. Muslim … read more