The Nigerian government has filed a notice before a Court of Appeal seeking to overturn a Federal High Court judgment acquitting Emirates Airlines and 10 others of complicity in the loss of some items aboard the airline. The Notice of Appeal dated May 16 gives 14 grounds for appealing the judgement including the fact that […]
Anti-corruption group Transparency International said on Monday Nigeria’s government has in the run-up to elections expanded the use of opaque $670 million-a-year funds that fuel graft. The funds, known as “security votes”, are a relic of military rule, mainly disbursed in hard cash and nominally released for dealing with unexpected security issues. They come from […]
Residents of Abuja and other central states will have to grab their umbrellas on Monday morning as the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted cloudy skies with prospect of thunderstorm. NiMet’s Weather Outlook by its Central Forecast Office in Abuja on Sunday also predicted day and night temperatures in the range of 27 to 36 […]
The immediate post-recession period when the fundamentals of the economy are at the early stages of recovery is the best time to invest in Nigeria, the director general, National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Yemi Kale, has said. Mr Kale, who was speaking at the “Direct Investors’ Summit Nigeria’ organised by the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission […]
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has tasked the Management of the IBB University for more collaboration on oil exploration in the Bida Basin, one of the seven inland basins in the country. Group Managing Director of the corporation, Dr. Maikanti Baru, gave the charge when he received in his office in Abuja the Chairman […]
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted cloudy morning weather conditions over the Central States of the country on Saturday with a prospect of isolated thunderstorms over Yola, Mambila Plateau, Abuja, Kaduna and Lafia. NiMet’s Weather Outlook by its Central Forecast Office in Abuja on Friday also predicted day and night temperatures in the range […]
The UN has allocated $2m (£1.5m) to help tackle a cholera outbreak in the north-east of Nigeria. At least 50 people have been killed by the disease since the end of March. There have been more than 400 confirmed cases in Yobe state, where many people live in overcrowded conditions having fled their homes because […]
Remote areas in poor nations need far more investment to undercut recruitment by militant armed groups, in a shift from development policies focused most on cities, the head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said. Achim Steiner, visiting Oslo for a May 23-24 conference on preventing violent extremism, told Reuters there was no purely […]
Nigerian soldiers have raped women and girls who fled the insurgency by militant Islamist group Boko Haram, Amnesty International has said. Troops separated women from their husbands and raped them, sometimes in exchange for food, in refugee camps, the rights group added. Thousands of people have also starved to death in the camps in north-eastern […]
A British judge ruled on Thursday that Nigeria’s Bodo community, which has been involved in a protracted legal battle with Shell over the clean-up of two 2008 oil spills, should retain the option of litigation for another year. Lawyers for Bodo had accused Shell of trying to kill off the legal case by seeking a […]