A renewed cult war in Swali, a suburb of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital, at the weekend, claimed four victims at a popular market. One of the suspected cult members, Mr. God-do-well, was inflicted with several machete cuts. A rival gang, … read more
Nigeria currently grows coffee in some parts of the north. But over the years, coffee has seen a significant dip in both production and export. In fact, Nigeria produced 2,100 tons of unroasted coffee in 2013, a figure which is … read more
Unknown gunmen, yesterday, abducted 18 passengers along the Owerri- Port Harcourt highway.Meanwhile, the Rivers State Police Command said it had recovered two bodies and rescued eight persons from the 18-seater passengers bus that was hijacked on Wednesday along Elele-Omarelu in … read more
Unknown gunmen on Wednesday shot dead at least three policemen at Rumuigbo in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. The policemen were reportedly on stop-and-search duty close to a petrol filling station at Rumuigbo when the gunmen struck. The … read more
Violence in Nigeria between semi-nomadic cattle herders and settled farmers has killed around six times more people than deaths related to the Boko Haram insurgency in the first half of 2018, and poses a major threat to the country’s stability, … read more
Royal Dutch Shell has reportedly started talks for the potential $2-billion sale of two disputed Nigerian oil licenses and their infrastructure assets, according to Bloomberg, after four years of failed attempts to offload the contentious assets. This latest round of … read more
Traders At Jos main market on Saturday counted their losses after a midnight fire gutted the market. Alhaji Abdulrahman Yusuf, the chairman of Traders Association in Plateau, told newsmen in Jos that over 270 shops with properties worth millions of … read more
Four days after the lawlessness drivers and owners of articulated trucks unleashed on the Apapa-Oshodi expressway continued unabated, Lagosians have been urged to brace up for ‘Armageddon Reloaded’ on the roads next week when the Federal Government go ahead with … read more
There are indications that over 500,000 Nigerians have emigrated from the country since 2016. This was disclosed by a source at the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), who stated that the number could be higher because many Nigerians who travelled as … read more
Nigeria’s former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been appointed to the board of Twitter. Okonjo-Iweala served as minister of finance and coordinating minister for the economy of Nigeria under president Goodluck Jonathan from 2011 until his government was voted out … read more