As the leadership crisis thrown up by Nigeria’s President Umaru Yar’Adua’s illness continues, former military leader Muhammadu Buhari has called for the removal of the President to save the nation from the lingering logjam. The call came as a civil … read more
The killing of over 500 people, mostly women and children, in three villages on the outskirts of Nigeria’s northern Plateau state Sunday could have been avoided if security chiefs had acted on information given to them, state Governor Jonah Jang … read more
A German national, Mr. Plaus Hollanda, 66, has been arrested by detectives in Jos, Plateau State, for allegedly giving a pistol and bullets to his driver, Emmanuel Pade. Police had found the pistol and 90 live ammunition in Pade’s possession. … read more
A Nigerian doctor has filed a 100-million-dollar lawsuit against Air France for flying him to Lagos “under dehumanising conditions”, court papers showed here Tuesday. Olaseni Adesina, who claims to have lived in France for 34 years, said the airline brought … read more
The governor of Nigeria’s central Plateau state on Tuesday accused the country’s military commanders of ignoring warnings of a weekend attack which claimed hundreds of lives of mainly Christian villagers. Jonah Jang said the carnage could have been avoided was … read more
Nigeria’s federal government has suspended the Director-General of the country’s privatisation agency, the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Dr. Christopher A nyanwu, the private Thisday newspaper reported Tuesday. The paper quoted a letter signed by the Secretary to the Government … read more
Fresh gunfire has sent Christian villagers in Nigeria fleeing as a senior official accused the country’s military chiefs of having ignored warnings about last weekend’s massacre. Residents of a mainly Christian settlement near the central city of Jos fled to … read more
CHAIRMAN, Infrastructure Sub-Committee of the Amnesty programme and Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Chief Ufot Ekaette, said, yesterday, the proposed new towns would be sited in selected oil producing communities in the nine states which make up the Niger Delta … read more
Though the latest Muslim-Christian killings have nothing to do with Nigeria’s current constitutional crisis, triggered by a long illness to President Umaru Yar’Adua, they illustrate graphically the dangers when drift and dither replace swift decision making. The Christian-dominated Government of … read more
Officials and human rights groups in Nigeria sharply increased the count of the dead after a weekend of vicious ethnic violence, saying Monday that as many as 500 people — many of them women and children — may have been … read more