Two Americans abducted off the Nigerian coast last month from a vessel contracted to the Chevron oil company have been released, the U.S. embassy in Abuja said on Friday, according to Reuters.
A Mexican citizen was also released, Nigerian security (...)
AlHijjah 20, 1432, Nov 16, 2011, SPA -- Authorities said that two fuel tankers have exploded in Nigeria's capital of Abuja, sending plumes of smoke over the city, according to AP.
Witnesses reported hearing at least two blasts Wednesday afternoon. (...)
AlHijjah 1, 1432, Oct 28, 2011, SPA -- Nigeria said it had been losing 28 billion naira ($175 million) annually on pensions for non-existent government 'ghost workers', a further sign of the impact corruption has on sub-Saharan Africa's (...)
AlQa'dah 10, 1432, Oct 8, 2011, SPA -- Hamdan bin Saleh Al-Shammari, the Saudi national who was kidnapped last Sunday by a gang in Nigerian city of Lagos has been released, an official source at the Saudi embassy announced.
The embassy also (...)
Nigeria's central bank monetary policy committee on Monday raised its benchmark interest rate for the fifth time this year to 9.25 percent , up from 8.75 percent and at the top end of expectations, according to Reuters.
Central Bank Governor, (...)
At least 102 people are believed to have died in flooding in south-western Nigeria since the weekend, according to a BBC report quoting the Nigerian Red Cross on Thursday.
Heavy rainfall caused a reservoir in the city of Ibadan to overflow, washing (...)
A bomb blast Friday at the United Nations compound in the Nigerian capital Abuja killed several people, according to UN officials and witnesses, dpa said.
A truck laden with explosives blew up near a main gate, witnesses said, though police would (...)
A suicide bomber driving an explosives-laden car killed at least 16 people on Friday at the United Nations compound in the Nigerian capital Abuja, dpa quoted Red Cross officials as reporting.
The car crashed through a security gate and was blown up (...)
A U.N. report has criticised Shell and the Nigerian government for contributing to 50 years of pollution in a region of the Niger Delta which it says needs the world's largest ever oil clean-up, costing an initial $1 billion and taking up to 30 (...)
Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday Germany wants a quick solution to the Greek crisis but it has to be feasible, and a completed plan is a pre-requirement for holding any special euro zone summit on Greece, according to Reuters.
"The (...)
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan named career diplomat Olugbenga Ashiru as foreign minister and respected engineer Bart Nnaji as power minister among several Cabinet appointments late on Monday, according to Reuters.
Ashiru has served as a (...)
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan appointed outgoing finance minister and former Goldman Sachs executive Olusegun Aganga as the new trade and investment minister on Monday, according to Reuters.
Jonathan was sworn in for his first full term on (...)
Nigeria's former speaker was charged on Monday with illegally obtaining 38 billion naira ($240 million) in bank loans and sharing the funds with members of parliament as expenses and allowances.
Dimeji Bankole, one of the most powerful politicians (...)
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in
Sunday for a four-year term and vowed to tackle corruption, which he
described as the root of underdevelopment in Nigeria, according to dpa.
Amid tight security in an elaborate ceremony (...)
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in Sunday for a four-year term.
Amid tight security in an elaborate ceremony witnessed in Abuja by more than 20 heads of state and government, Jonathan, 53, took the oath of office from Chief Justice (...)
At least 10 people were killed in an
explosion at a market in northern Nigeria, a news report said Monday.
Twenty people were also injured when the bomb went off at 1900 GMT Sunday at a market near an army barracks in the city of Bauchi, the BBC (...)
The Economic Community of West African
States (ECOWAS) is set to establish a regional air carrier, called
ECOAIR, it announced Saturday, in the wake of repeated poor
performance by local airlines, and the financial collapse of several
national (...)
Gunmen kidnapped a Briton and an Italian in Nigeria's northwestern town of Birnin-Kebbi on Friday, Reuters quoted police in the West African country as saying.
"We have launched an investigation and a manhunt for the kidnappers," national police (...)
Awwal 14, 1432, April 18, 2011, SPA -- Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan is leading the polls with over 22 million votes collated from 35 out of 36 states
across Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, according to figures released Sunday.
The (...)
Awwal 05, 1432, April 09, 2011, SPA -- Up to 20 people were feared dead after an explosion rocked a central Nigerian election office late Friday just hours before voting in parliamentary elections was set to begin.
The explosion in Suleja, 20 (...)
Akhir 29, 1432 / April 03, 2011, SPA -- Parliamentary elections in Nigeria, Africa's most
populous country, have been further postponed to April 9 instead of
the rescheduled date of April 4, the Independent National Electoral
Commission said (...)
Awwal 05, 1432, Feb 08, 2011, SPA -- The chairman of West Africa's regional bloc on Tuesday criticized South Africa for sending a warship to the region amid Ivory Coast's political crisis, but the South African government maintained it had sent the (...)
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan pledged on Saturday to track down the "pure criminals" behind a New Year's Eve bombing in Abuja that killed at least four people, according to Reuters.
There has been no claim of responsibility for the attack (...)
A militant faction in Nigeria's restive oil-producing Niger Delta said on Saturday it had attacked oil facilities operated by U.S. energy firm Chevron and Italian oil company Agip, according to Reuters.
The Niger Delta Liberation Force (NDLF) said (...)
Nigeria's government has proposed a 4.2 trillion naira ($28 billion) budget for 2011, most of it for recurrent expenditure, based on an assumed benchmark oil price of $62 a barrel, Reuters quoted a presidency source as saying on Tuesday.
President (...)
