Senior US envoy Johnnie Carson arrived in Nigeria Saturday for talks expected to include global terrorism, after a Nigerian’s botched Christmas Day bombing of a US plane that raised tensions. The US assistant secretary of state for Africa travelled to … read more
A Nigerian police spokeswoman says gunmen have kidnapped an Indian citizen living in Nigeria’s restive oil region. Spokeswoman Rita Abbey says gunmen kidnapped the man on Friday night. She says the man serves as the general manager of a homebuilding … read more
There have been delays in Nigeria’s southern state of Anambra, where voters are electing a new governor. Many polling stations remained closed for hours because some police officers refused to escort ballot papers, saying they had not received allowances. Anambra … read more
Fearing that the vacuum created by the absence of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua may spell doom for the country’s democracy, a decision may be taken this Tuesday. A political solution that will see Vice President Goodluck Jonathan take over the … read more
Voters in Nigeria’s politically-volatile state of Anambra go to the polls Saturday to elect a governor in a contest seen as a test run of how next year’s national presidential vote will shape up. The last presidential vote which brought … read more
Gunmen have abducted an eight-month old baby for ransom in the southern Nigerian oil city of Port Harcourt, police said Friday. At least two gunmen seized the child from her family home late Thursday, Rita Inoma-Abbey, spokeswoman for the police … read more
Nigeria’s ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua will write a letter handing power over to his vice-president, his adviser has told the BBC. The letter, formally informing the Senate that Mr Yar’Adua is on “medical vacation”, automatically means his deputy becomes acting … read more
US Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Johnnie Carson is expected to arrive Nigeria this weekend as part of his current four-nation west African tour, sources said Friday. The US mission in Nigeria, in a statement, merely said that Carson … read more
Nigeria’s influential state governors backed a proposal Friday for Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to be acting head and end a vacuum following President Umaru Yar’Adua’s lengthy hospitalisation abroad. The decision of the 36 governors came after an emergency meeting which … read more
Nigeria’s oil minister Thursday threatened to sack officials in his ministry if they failed to end an acute fuel shortage in a week. “If they cannot perform, then we will deal with them. We will bring in people who will … read more