Nigeria will upgrade its airport security with 3-Dimensional (3-D) Total Body Imaging Scanner in all the nation’s airports, Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) Harold Demuren has said. The Netherlands also announced yesterday that it will immediately … read more
Intelligence agents failed to act on internet “chatter” among al-Qaeda members that referred to a possible attack by “the Nigerian”, it has emerged. High-ranking White House officials say that intelligence services should have pieced together warnings about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, … read more
Dozens more bodies were recovered after violent clashes between security forces and Islamists in northern Nigeria, bringing the death toll to around 70, a count at a hospital morgue showed on Wednesday. An AFP reporter listed 42 bodies on the … read more
A Dutch court has said it has jurisdiction over a case of alleged oil spills brought against Royal Dutch Shell’s subsidiary in Nigeria by four Nigerian farmers and Friends of the Earth, a court spokeswoman told ANP-Reuters yesterday. “The court … read more
Aloysius Iyorgyer Katsina-Alu was yesterday sworn in as chief justice of Nigeria (CJN) by Idris Legbo Kutigi who until midnight was the substantive CJN in an exercise that has thrown up constitutional questions on the legality. The Nigerian Bar Association … read more
The Police said yesterday that they had arrested 20 suspects in connection with the sectarian crisis which erupted in Bauchi on Monday. Mr Emmanuel Ojukwu, the Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Police Force, disclosed this yesterday in Abuja while … read more
TO curb the activities of student-terrorists, the Yemeni government said, on Tuesday, that it was tightening restriction on student visas like the one that allowed Farouk Abdulmutallab to enter Yemen. It also denied knowledge of Abdulmutallab’s terrorist link in Yemen, … read more
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called “Nigerian Al-Qaeda Bomber,” set off enough alarms to wake up the international security structure around the world, but they all waved him through to Detroit, a new Saharareporters investigation has revealed. The first flag should … read more
The failed attempt by a 23-year-old Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, to bomb a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day has put further pressure on President Umaru Yar’Adua to either confirm that he is fit to govern the country or hand over … read more
As the sack gale sweeping through Nigerian bank intensifies, more workers are set to lose their jobs in the ongoing reforms in the country’s banking sector. Already, more than 2,000 workers have been sacked in just two banks – Intercontinental … read more