Police in Nigeria have arrested a doctor suspected of impregnating girls and selling their babies. The police said they found five pregnant girls aged between 12 and 17 at the doctor’s clinic in the south-eastern town of Enugu. The police … read more
The family of a Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a US airliner as it approached Detroit on Christmas Day plans to attend his arraignment in court this week, a family source said on Sunday. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, … read more
After more than 40 days at the King Faisal Hospital and Research Centre in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia where he was admitted since November 23, 2009 for pericarditis, ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua may return to Nigeria this week, BusinessDay has learnt. … read more
AS Abuja laps up yet another assurance nurtured by spin doctors that President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua may return to his presidency next week, there is a worrisome mood within a section of the civil society that he may return to … read more
The All-Share Index on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) ended the year Friday with 20,827.17 points, making it the worst performing equity index worldwide, despite a bullish rally on the New Year eve, according to the privately-owned Guardian newspaper. The … read more
Government’s failure to fulfill its promise to provide Nigerians with 6,000 megawatts of electricity by December 2009, the death and burial of former first lady Maryam Babangida and the recurring story of the Nigerian who tried to bomb an American … read more
The withering criticism that American officials failed to heed early warnings about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man accused of trying to bomb an airplane on Christmas Day, has cast a similarly harsh light on Nigeria’s own national security agencies, … read more
Free stuff is never appreciated. Africa often seems to deserve its reputation as a total botch job and wasteland. While it seems to have escaped notice, the story Nigerian authorities tell about full-body scan systems differs markedly from what U.S. … read more
After the failed Detroit plane bombing in which a young Nigerian managed to enter a US jet with explosive, the Barack Obama administration has decided to dispatch its officials to countries across the world to review the security procedures and … read more
Nigerians are still struggling to come to terms with the news that Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old son of one of this country’s most prominent and wealthiest bankers, allegedly tried to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight as it landed in … read more