The deaths of more than 100 people following an explosion at an illegal oil refinery in southern Nigeria has thrown a spotlight on the lucrative world of illicit refining, which the BBC's Mayeni Jones and Josephine Casserly have been (...)
Motorcycle taxi companies are expanding in West Africa with backing from investors betting that the meteoric rise of two-wheeled taxi firms in Asia can be replicated in some of the fastest growing countries in the world.
Four bike taxi firms are now (...)
ENJOYING a chilled drink in a hotel, former Nigerian militant leader Ebi John has a simple message for President Muhammadu Buhari — keep paying my men or risk a new insurgency in the Niger Delta.
Tensions have been building in the southern swampland (...)
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria — Confusion and sporadic violence blighted Nigeria's tensest presidential election since the end of army rule, with opposition supporters disputing results on Sunday from a turbulent southern state even before they were (...)
Gunmen shot dead a Nigerian soldier in an ambush in the southern oil hub of Port Harcourt on Saturday, the military said, as voters were casting their ballots across the country in a presidential election, Reuters reported.
Brigadier-General K.A. (...)
AlQa'dah 13, 1435, Sep 8, 2014, SPA -- The Nigerian government on Monday said the country has recorded another Ebola case in southwest Lagos state, bringing the total number of Ebola cases to 19 with seven fatalities.
Onyebuchi Chukwu, the country's (...)
AlQa'dah 3, 1435, Aug 29, 2014, SPA -- Nigeria on Thursday confirmed that two more cases of Ebola have been recorded in a state within the southern region of the country, summing up the total number of patients currently under treatment to (...)
A navy helicopter crashed Saturday in the country's oil-rich southern delta, killing a state governor and five other people, in the latest air disaster to hit Africa's most populous nation, AP quoted officials as saying.
Nigeria's ruling party said (...)
Awwal 10, 1432, Feb 13, 2011, SPA -- At least 11 people were trampled to death on Saturday in a stampede at an election campaign rally for Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan in the southern oil city of Port Harcourt.
Thousands of ruling party (...)
Awwal 09, 1432 H/Feb 12, 2011, SPA -- A police official in Nigeria says 31 people have been injured in a stampede at an election rally in the oil-rich southern delta attended by President Goodluck Jonathan.
Rivers state police spokesman Rita (...)
JOS/MAIDUGURI: Explosions in Nigeria's central region killed 32 people on Christmas Eve and six people died in attacks on two churches in the northeast of Africa's most populous nation, officials said Saturday.
On Friday night, a series of bombs (...)
Masked armed men guard Nigeria's elite in this volatile oil-rich region, but the country's middle class can only lock their doors and pray each time their children leave home.
Kidnappers who once targeted foreign oil workers are now abducting (...)
Two German hostages kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria this month were freed on Saturday, Germany's foreign minister said.
Gunmen had abducted the two men while they were at a beach in the oil-producing southeastern Abia state on April 18, AP (...)
At least 20 bus passengers were killed in Nigeria on Saturday when a cable fell onto the bus and electrocuted people inside, police said.
Police confirmed 20 deaths, but spokeswoman Rita Abbey said the toll could climb further.
More than 10 (...)
The 5-day annual meeting of the World Energy Cities Partnership (WECP) concluded here last night in Calgary, Canada.
Dammam city delegation was led by Mayor of Eastern Province Eng. Daif Allah Aiysh Al-Oteibi who is also the current president of (...)
Hundreds of Nigerian rebel fighters gave up their weapons and accepted an amnesty deal on Saturday in the most concerted effort yet to end years of fighting in the oil-producing Niger Delta.
Militant leaders Ateke Tom and Farah Dagogo, both (...)
WHEN a survey of Nigeria's most loved cities is taken, it will not be a surprise to any Nigerian that Port Harcourt will always make the top list. As capital of the southern Nigerian Rivers State, Port Harcourt is a city that many fresh graduates (...)
French Prime Minister Francois
Fillon is in the Nigerian capital today for talks with leaders of
Africa's most-populous nation, accordint to AP.
Fillon met with President Umaru Yar'Adua and Vice
President Goodluck Jonathan before making a (...)
Nigeria and Dubai have signed a preliminary agreement worth $16 billion to develop oil and gas infrastructure in Africa's top crude producer, officials said on Friday.
The deal will see Dubai World Corporation (DWC) wholly-owned by Dubai Emirate, (...)
Nigerian militants threatened on Wednesday to broaden their "oil war" to offshore oilfields and announced attacks on a crude oil pipeline in the Niger Delta and another Shell-operated facility.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (...)
Nigerian gunmen
killed a crew member of a supply vessel and abducted another in
the latest attack on the oil industry in the restive Niger
Delta, the army said on Sunday, according to Reuters.
The Fulmar Lamnco, operated by the local unit of (...)
Fifteen persons, including two children and their
mother, were killed in an early Sunday auto crash on the Abuja-Lokoja
highway, central Nigeria, according to dpa.
Eight other persons were also seriously wounded in the crash, an
officer of the (...)
Several dozen people are feared dead
after a tanker exploded in Nigeria, DPA quoted reports as saying Saturday.
The tanker exploded on a main road near the city of Port Harcourt
in the oil-rich Niger Delta region, Britain's BBC reported.
There (...)
An oil tanker burst into flames at Nigeria's Port Harcourt on Friday after two loud explosions were heard, Reuters quoted oil industry sources as saying.
The tanker was berthed in a general cargo area, not at an oil exporting terminal, and crude (...)
Oil prices increased drastically on Wednesday amidst violence in Nigeria and a warning that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) may not be able to meet its share of global oil demand by 2024, the Associated Press (...)
