Cash-driven piracy and militant attacks against oil installations are likely to increase this year in Nigeria’s oil delta after the April elections, private maritime risk analysts warned Monday. Although fewer cases of piracy were recorded in 2010 in Nigerian waters … read more
Nigeria’s main opposition Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) on Sunday took the federal government to task over the series of deadly violence that has hit Africa’s most populous nation in recent times, asking: ‘Is anyone still in charge of Nigeria?’ … read more
The Presidency has reacted angrily to news report on Al Jazeera which claimed that President Goodluck Jonathan has blamed the New Year’s Eve attack on Abuja on Islamic extremist sect, Boko Haram as an outright lie. A Presidency statement signed … read more
United States Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told Fox News that FBI agents have been dispatched to help the Nigerian government investigate the deadly bombing that struck an army barracks in the country’s capital on New Year’s Eve. Napolitano spoke … read more
Saharareporters has learned from highly reliable sources that Mr. Badamosi Kabir, a member of the House of Representatives and a son-in-law to the late Nigerian ruler, Umaru Yar’adua, is in a coma in a London hospital. Mr. Kabir reportedly fell … read more
President Goodluck Jonathan vowed Saturday to rid Nigeria of “terrorists” after a bomb ripped through a crowded market in Abuja on New Year’s Eve, killing four people in the latest of a spate of attacks. Speaking at a New Year … read more
Timeline of religious and ethnic violence in Nigeria in the last ten years: 2000 Thousands killed in northern Nigeria as non-Muslims opposed to the introduction of Islamic sharia law fight Muslims who demand its implementation in the northern state of … read more
An investigation into allegations of child abuse and child witchcraft has begin in Uyo, Nigeria today. A commission looking into allegations of child witchcraft in the Nigerian state of Akwa Ibom has commenced today in the city of Uyo in … read more
The main militant group in Nigeria’s oil-rich southern delta said it did not set a bomb that exploded inside a busy beer garden at an army barracks in the capital. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta sent … read more
Several houses were yesterday burnt with properties destroyed in resumed clashes between K-Dere and B-Dere village communities in Gokana local government area of Rivers State. Six persons had been killed when the fight first broke out between the villagers over … read more