Boko Haram killed at least 20 people and wounded scores of others in coordinated attacks on a military camp and villages around the flashpoint northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, which they also tried to infiltrate across a defensive trench, officials … read more
Nigeria’s government will investigate allegations of improper involvement by political consultancy Cambridge Analytica in the country’s 2007 and 2015 elections, a presidency spokesman said on Monday. The UK-based political consultancy is facing allegations that it improperly accessed data from social … read more
President Muhammadu Buhari sacked the head of an amnesty programme for former militants in the country’s oil and gas-producing heartland, amid allegations of graft. Funding of the former Niger Delta militants under the 2009 amnesty has been key to maintaining … read more
More than 10 years after shunning the Murtala Muhammed Airport II (MMA2), Lagos, the management of Arik Air on Sunday announced the movement of its Port Harcourt Airport operations to the private terminal. The airline said on Sunday that all … read more
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has approved an increase in excise duties on tobacco and alcoholic beverages, the finance ministry said in a statement on Sunday. The west African country, which has Africa’s biggest economy, fell into recession in 2016 largely … read more
An agency tasked with cleaning up Nigeria’s murky oil industry says even though financial accountability has improved the state oil company still hasn’t explained billions of dollars of missing revenue. While energy producers have cooperated and complied with requirements to … read more
Nigeria’s immigration service launched an investigation after two staff members were arrested on suspicion of trying to traffic girls out of the country. Thousands of girls are each year taken illegally out of Africa’s most populous country, where 70% of … read more
Ten people were killed and dozens of others maimed following an attack by gunmen in Nigeria’s central state of Plateau, local officials said on Saturday. A mass burial was held for victims on Friday, a few hours after some unknown … read more
A Nigerian plane made an emergency landing in Ghana after smoke was detected in the cabin, officials said Friday, in the latest incident to hit domestic and foreign airline operators. The aircraft, owned by Arik Air, was travelling from Lagos … read more
To keep its prisons free of Nigerians, the United Kingdom is paying to improve the capacity of Nigerian prisons. The UK will pay up to £700,000 ($967,954) to build a new 112-bed wing at Kirikiri maximum security prisons, one of … read more