Category Archives: Nigeria

Nigeria News

Nigeria to host African Business Women’s Advocacy Forum: Women’s Leade...

May 20, 2013 no comments

LAGOS, Nigeria, May 20, 2013 – Vital Voices Global Partnership and Women in Management, Business, and Public Service (WIMBIZ) today announced the hosting of the Supporting Public Advocacy for R...

MasterCard to power Nigerian Identity Card Program

May 11, 2013 1 comment

13 Million Cards to be issued first, in largest card rollout of its kind in Africa

Tribute to an outstanding and legendary African Actor, Justus Esiri ha...

February 23, 2013 no comments

The world has lost an icon. An outstanding actor has passed away leaving a proud legacy difficult to emulate. Nigerian actor, Justus Esiri not only made an impact in the African film industry, he was...

OSIWA’s partnership with Integrity Nigeria yields new tool to combat c...

January 16, 2013 no comments

The Open Society Initiative of West Africa (OSIWA) say its strategy to develop and implement Strong governance institutions, processes and structures that are transparent, accountable, intolerant of ...

Nigeria to review Switzerland’s human rights record amidst risin...

October 25, 2012 no comments

Nigeria is one of three states (called the Troika) tasked by the 47 member-states of the UN Human Rights Council to examine Switzerland’s second report on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the h...

Nigerians involved in forging and fraudulently obtaining Sierra Leone ...

September 24, 2012 no comments

The Sierra Leone Embassy in Senegal has seized and confiscated a total of over 15 Sierra Leone government documents, including among others, passports, birth certificates, residential permits fraudul...

Ngozi Achebe, Lola Shoneyin, Chika Unigwe, Olusola Olugbesan and six o...

September 8, 2012 no comments

As far as Africa is concerned, prizes don’t come any bigger and challenging than this - the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG) Literary prize for writers of Nigerian descent based bo...

A Nigerian cargo plane crash-lands in Ghana

June 3, 2012 1 comment

A Nigerian cargo jet, Allied Air yesterday 2nd June clash landed in Accra at 1900GMT and rammed through the airport fence smashing a taxi cab and a 207 bus killing 10 passengers on board. The Boeing ...

Kano State is no longer safe, as hundreds flee Northern Nigeria

February 8, 2012 no comments

KANO, Nigeria, Mustapha Muhammad (IPS) – “I can no longer stay here in Kano as it rains bombs. The gun battles rattle us… Kano is no longer safe,” said pregnant Funke Nweke of her decisio...

Boko Haram and the dangerous frustration in Nigeria

January 27, 2012 no comments

Boko Haram emerged out of the economic, political and religious frustration of northern Muslims – it will not be defeated unless these issues are addressed.  “When you get a situation where a bunch o...

The billions of dollars siphoned through corruption in Nigeria could h...

January 12, 2012 no comments

KANO, Nigeria, (IPS) – As a nationwide strike and protests against the lifting of the fuel subsidy paralysed Nigeria for the third day in a row Wednesday, analysts say the billions of dollars a year ...

Nigeria is slowly becoming another Afghanistan as suicide bomber strik...

August 26, 2011 no comments

The Nigerian capital of Abuja has once agin been rocked with a massive bomb blast that hit the United Nation’s office and killing at least ten people. It is reported that the blast was as a res...

Big loss for the African Movie Industry as Nigerian actor Sam Loco Efe...

August 7, 2011 12 comments

According to reports coming out of Nigeria, top Nollywood star actor and comedian, Sam Loco Efe, has died. The report stated that the talented actor died on location in his hotel room earlier today i...

Nigeria’s Borno State Governor urges Islamists to accept a cease...

July 18, 2011 2 comments

Kashim Shettima, the  governor of the northern Nigerian state of Borno which was rocked by bomb and shooting attacks blamed on radical Islamists, has urged them to accept a ceasefire and embrace dial...

Boko Haram attacks leave 11 people dead in northeastern Nigeria

June 8, 2011 2 comments

According to police, 11 people have been killed in multiple blasts and targeted attacks orchestrated by a feared radical Muslim sect in Nigeria’s restive northeast. Borno State police chief Moh...

Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives arrested on corrup...

June 6, 2011 2 comments

The anti-corruption agency in Nigeria has arrested one of the West African nation’s top politicians on suspicion of defrauding the oil-rich country, an official said. Officers arrested outgoing...