19 June 2012 Last updated at 17:42 The bombings have led to revenge attacks between Christians and Muslims Nigerian authorities have imposed a curfew in the north-eastern city of Damaturu after clashes between Islamist militants and the army – and reinstated a Kaduna state-wide ban on movements. The violence broke out on Monday, escalating overnight, [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan, in a closed-door assembly he held, yesterday, with Senate President David Mark; a Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Dahiru Musdapher and a Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshall Oluseyi Petinrin was pronounced to have discussed a probability of commanding a state of puncture in Kaduna should a repartee attacks continue. According [...]
ABUJA – Nigeria is struggling to make sense of a report that says high-level officials and business people stole $6.8 billion in public funds intended to subsidize the cost of fuel. At the same time, the lawmaker that spearheaded the report is accused of accepting a bribe from an oil company and is under investigation. In early January, business in Nigeria came to a standstill after the fuel subsidy was cut at the recommendation of economists. Protests broke out across the country as …
ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigerian authorities imposed a 24-hour curfew in the northeastern city of Damaturu on Tuesday, after clashes between suspected Islamist sect members and the military raged overnight. Local residents said sporadic gunfire, which began around 1700 GMT on Monday, could still be heard in Damaturu on Tuesday but the authorities did not say [...]
By Garba Mohammed KADUNA, Nigeria | Mon Jun 18, 2012 5:09pm BST KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) – At least 52 people were killed in religious rioting sparked by three suicide bombings against churches in northern Nigeria, where the dead were on Monday piled up in mortuaries and cemeteries in the city of Kaduna. A Reuters reporter [...]
By Garba Mohammed KADUNA, Nigeria | Mon Jun 18, 2012 11:54am EDT KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) – At least 52 people were killed in religious rioting sparked by three suicide bombings against churches in northern Nigeria, where the dead were on Monday piled up in mortuaries and cemeteries in the city of Kaduna. A Reuters reporter [...]
Gov. Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State has urged a Federal Government to channel a vast cube of a fuel funding supports to agriculture. He done a interest on Friday in Sokoto when he perceived a Minister of Water Resources, Mrs Sarah Ochekpe, who paid him a pleasantness call. Wamakkoexpressed exasperation that supervision was still importing [...]
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s House of Representatives voted Friday to mislay a lawmaker from a examine into a country’s mismanaged fuel funding module over allegations that he took a cheat from an oil company. Rep. Farouk Lawan of a country’s statute People’s Democratic Party missed a conference in Nigeria’s capital, as military incarcerated him [...]
Alaska News Features ABUJA, Nigeria — Charging that “Hell was let loose” in Nigeria and that he is the one who can fix it, former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari announced that he might run for president. Again. The election is not scheduled until 2015 and Buhari had already pledged not to run, but this week [...]
Email | Print | Share June 15, 2012 House pulls Nigeria lawmaker from fuel probe Bashir Adigun Nigeria’s House of Representatives voted Friday to remove a lawmaker from a probe into the country’s mismanaged fuel subsidy program over allegations that he took a bribe from an oil company. Rep. Farouk Lawan of the country’s ruling [...]
Email | Print | Share June 15, 2012 Police detain Nigeria lawmaker who led fuel probe The Associated Press Police in Nigeria say they detained and questioned a federal lawmaker who led a probe into the country’s mismanaged gasoline subsidy program that found billions of dollars misspent. Federal police spokesman Frank Mba said Friday that [...]
Lagos — KANO State bend of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to provide a state as a special box by beefing adult confidence in a area, indicating out that wordless murdering of Christians is ongoing in tools of a metropolis. In a write interview, a state authority of CAN, [...]
Posted: 2012-06-14 08:31 The Nigeria Football Federation has congratulated a former Board Member of a Federation, Barrister Chive Kaave, on his new appointment by President Goodluck Jonathan as Nigeria’s Ambassador to Argentina. Kaave, a former Chairman of a Benue Cement Company (BCC) and member of afterwards NFA Board between 1999 and 2002, underneath a Chairmanship [...]
Abuja — The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved a new visa policy for the country designed to boost tourism, attract foreign investment and create employment opportunities. Minister of Information Labaran Maku said this while briefing State House correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan at the State [...]
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Livestock tracking in Africa goes high tech
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Japan, a subtle but effective partner for Africa
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Telkom SA joins IT Leaders East Africa Summit in September as platinum solution provider
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Hennessy Artistry To Release Music Video For Bartender On August 17th
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Nigerian Military Says It Captured Dozens of Boko Haram Militants
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Target goes hunting in Silicon Valley, following Wal-Mart
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