185 killed in clashes between Niger...
BAGA, Nigeria -- Fighting between Nigeria's military and Islamic extremists killed at least 185 people in a fishing community in the nation's far northeast, officials said Sunday, an attack that saw insurgents fire rocket-propelled grenades and soldiers spray machine-gun fire into neighborhoods filled with civilians. The fighting in Baga began Friday and lasted for hours, sending people fleeing into the arid scrublands surrounding the community on Lake Chad. By Sunday, when government officials finally felt safe enough to see the destruction,...
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Nigeria’s MEND Issues Threat to Bom...
Nigeria’s Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta threatened to bomb mosques and assassinate Muslim clerics, a week after saying it killed 15 security personnel in the southern oil-producing Bayelsa state. The campaign will start May 31 “to save Christianity in Nigeria from annihilation,” MEND spokesman Jomo Gbomo said in an e-mailed statement yesterday. “The bombings of mosques, haj camps, Islamic institutions, large congregations in Islamic events and assassinations of clerics that propagate doctrines of hate will form the core...
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High Hopes As Nigeria Invests in Al...
Lagos — As Nigerians' daily consumption of Premium Motors Spirit (PMS) otherwise called fuel, is on the increase and capacities of the country's refineries falling short of the demand, attention is now shifted to Compressed Natural Gas. Over 80 percent of fuel is being imported outside the shores of the country with severe economic implications to Nigeria. Last year, the country spent trillions of naira on importation of fuel for the consumption of the citizens. Compressed Natural Gas is a fossil fuel...
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Nigeria's Boko Haram rejects Jonath...
The Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has rejected the idea of an amnesty. Last week President Goodluck Jonathan asked a high level team to look into the possibility of granting the militants a pardon. The announcement was made via an audio statement believed to be from the group's leader Abubakar Shekau. In recent years Boko Haram has carried out a campaign of violence across northern and parts of central Nigeria killing at least 2,000 people. The group says its members are fighting to create...
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Nigeria’s Press Under Attack
Four journalists with LEADERSHIP Newspapers have been detained at the Force Headquarters, Abuja, on the orders of President Goodluck Jonathan. The journalists, Mrs. Chinyere Fred-Adebulugbe; Mr. Tony Amokeodo; Mr. Chibuzor Ukaibe; and Mr. Chuks Ohuegbe, had reported at the Force Headquarters on Monday morning to honour an invitation by the police. The Director, Human Capital and former LEADERSHIP Sunday Editor, Mrs. Fred-Adegbulugbe, who led the journalists said, “After the journalists finished writing statements, DIG Peter Gana suddenly excused himself on a call...
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Armed men ambush police boat in Nig...
Armed men have ambushed a police boat in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta region, leaving 12 officers missing and presumed dead, security officials said. Police Commissioner Kingsley Omire said on Sunday the boat, carrying 50 police officials, was heading to a funeral late on Friday. The vessel developed engine problems in one of the winding creeks of the swampy delta region that is home to Africa's biggest oil industry, he said. The craft developed engine problem was now isolated and the officers became...
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Scores killed in Nigeria religious ...
Security tightened after Christian villagers in Plateau state accuse ethnic Fulani Muslims of burning their homes. At least 36 people have died and dozens of houses have been burned in religious clashes central Nigeria over the past week. The military said on Saturday that the latest casualties were in addition to at least 23 people killed in attacks in the volatile region on March 20 and 21. Al Jazeera's Mohammed Adow, reporting from Lagos, said that there had been weeks of tension between...
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Lagos generates gas, electricity at...
Managing Director of Lagos State Waste Management Authority, (LAWMA), Mr. Ola Oresanya yesterday revealed that his agency was already generating gas and electricity at its dump site in Ojota, a feat he said his agency was first to accomplish in Africa. Oresanya also revealed that the dump site in Ojota had been registered under the United Nations carbon credit programme and would soon begin to receive carbon credit from the world body. He said by these accomplishments, his organisation had succeeded...
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Girl Raped And Videoed, She Begged ...
It is about 18 months now after a video showing the rape of a young lady by five students, allegedly of the Abia State University (ABSU), went viral and sparked outrage across the country. YNaija has received yet another disturbing video, which apparently shows a young lady being violated by a man in the presence of at least two others who ignored her plea for mercy and continued to trample on her dignity without remorse. The suspect in the video clip spoke...
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Nigeria's Space Race
Nigeria is running one of Africa's biggest space programmes. The hope is the satellite-based project will help manage agricultural production, but not everyone is convinced of the benefits. In 2003 Nigeria announced its space programme and within a few years it had launched its first satellite, which quickly lost power and disappeared from orbit. Now Nigeria has three satellites in orbit including NigComSat-1R, built in China. It was launched in 2011 and has boosted internet and telecommunications services across the country. Next, the...
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