The new head of Nigeria’s electoral agency has threatened to prosecute all of its officials who engage in electoral malpractices in next year’s poll, a national newspaper reported on Sunday. “We will make sure really anybody who breaches the (electoral) … read more
The capital of Nigeria’s oil-rich south south Bayelsa state, Yenagoa, was jolted by drive-by shootings which left about seven people dead in its trail, the private newspaper, Punch, reported here Sunday. According to the newspaper, an earlier report indicated that … read more
World football governing body, FIFA, have fired yet another stern warning to Nigeria, insisting the government should not meddle in the forthcoming elections into the board of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). The elections have been fixed for August 21 … read more
On Thursday 29th July, the Senate President dissolved the Committee on Communications chaired by Sylvester Anyanwu for telling a lie and bringing the Senate to ridicule. The committee had claimed that they had studiously screened the chair, executive chair and … read more
Last week in Abuja, former sports minister Ismaila Sambawa visited the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) trying to resolve problems relating to his frozen assets. For two years, the Yar’Adua administration had leaned on the EFCC to place a … read more
She is a grandmother, but authorities tracking the remaining members of the Nigerian Taliban after crushing the sect’s uprising a year ago may have reason for concern. The 48-year-old whose son was among the sect members killed in the fighting … read more
A new group of about 600 former rebels from Nigeria’s main oil producing region are to enter a government retraining camp from Sunday, a government statement said. The 600 are from about 20 groups in the Niger Delta which had … read more
Visibly angry ex-militants, protesting the shabby handling of the post-amnesty programme, stormed the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Press Center in Warri, Delta State, yesterday, causing pandemonium among the residents and passers-by in the area. The ex-militants, who came in … read more
A former Nigerian official arrested in Dubai by Interpol on charges of siphoning off millions of dollars of state assets is due to be extradited to Britain, a local newspaper reported on Monday James Ibori, governor of the southern oil … read more
Police guarded the ruins of the Nigerian Taliban’s mosque on Monday, a year after it launched an uprising put down by a brutal military assault, with fears a new attack was being planned. Authorities also worked night checkpoints in this … read more