Nigeria’s ruling party says President Umaru Yar’Adua has been discharged from a Saudi hospital, though it did not say when he will return to Nigeria. Reports earlier this month said Mr. Yar’Adua had left the King Faisal Hospital in Jeddah, … read more
Members of the Save Nigeria Group today confirmed to Saharareporters that the huge mass protest they have planned for Lagos today will go ahead. The largest turnout so far is expected. The rally and expectations of a federal high court … read more
Clashes between Muslims and Christians in the central Nigerian city of Jos have killed more than 400 people and injured 4,000 more, a domestic human rights group said. Most of the fighting in three days of violence occurred in the … read more
SENATE President, David Mark, announced yesterday that Nigeria had donated $1million to the people and government of Haiti to ameliorate the pains of the massive earthquake that ravaged the country. But even as humanity rallies round its own, telluric forces, … read more
The Nigerian government is vigorously protesting the country’s inclusion on the U.S. list of 14 nations subject to enhanced aviation passenger security screening. At the same time, the more politically involved elite of the country are doing all that they … read more
Nigeria’s interim leader ordered the Army to restore order today in the central town of Jos where nearly 200 people have been killed in three days of clashes between Christians and Muslims. As gunshots echoed through the deserted streets of … read more
The Nigerian government is in talks with the United States oil firm Chevron and Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell over the renewal of their shallow water oil licences, an official statement said on Tuesday. “Chevron and Shell are still in negotiations … read more
The relatively affluent upbringing of the Nigerian would-be bomber Umar Abdulmutallab is not too dissimilar to that of some of the Sept. 11 attackers or Al Qaeda recruits for other attacks, but it makes him a particular exception in Nigeria, … read more
National Security Adviser General Abdullahi Sarki Mukhtar (rtd) announced the Vice President’s marching orders to the army after emerging from a meeting between Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and security chiefs. He said “at the moment the military have moved in, in … read more
Just a fortnight after Influenza A/H1N1 (swine flu) killed a 38-year-old woman in Lagos and eight others subsequently tested positive, Lagos State Govern-ment yesterday disclosed that Nigeria currently “has no vaccine to treat the flu virus in stock”. The state … read more