Yar’adua To Return This Week?

President Umaru Yar’adua’s controversial two month stay in a Saudi Arabian hospital will shortly come to an end when he returns to the country later this week, most likely on Friday

Yar’Adua’s absence … The gathering storm

The storm is gathering over the President’s unusually long absence. A protest rally that promises to be huge, led by distinguished citizens

Fire guts parts of Ghana market

Fire destroys parts of one of Africa's biggest markets - at Kumasi in Ghana - the second fire there in less than a year

A Nigerian Anti-terrorist Facebook Group

A Facebook group started to condemn the alleged attempt to blow up a US passenger plane by a 23-year-old Nigerian has attracted more than 43,000 members.

Arrest threat for Nigeria debtors

People who owe billions of dollars to troubled Nigerian banks have been given five days to pay the money, or face arrest.

NIGERIA: Police evacuate 4,000 members of Islamic sect in raid on compound

Nigerian police have evacuated some 4,000 members of an Islamic sect from their compound in a bid to "forestall any religious crisis", police sources told AFP. The raid comes after a July uprising by another sect, Boko Haram, left 800 dead.

NIGERIA: Troops to flush out Islamic militants 'once and for all'

Nigerian forces are tracking down remnants of an Islamic fundamentalist sect who went on a violence spree killing more than 250 people in the Muslim-dominated north. President Umaru Yar'Adua said the militants "will be dealt with squarely".

Yar’Adua Forced Me Into Exile - Ribadu

Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),Nuhu Ribadu, at the weekend said President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was after his life and actually forced him into exile.

Imo: The Permutations, Scheming And Calculations

As Governor Ikedi Ohakim hovers between whether or not to go back to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead 2011 general elections, salient political meetings and permutations are playing out an atmosphere of suspense and anxiety continues  to pervade Imo State.

Nigerian Militants Claim Attack on 3 Shell Oil Facilities

Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, or MEND, says it attacked two pipelines in the districts of Adamakiri and Kula in Nigeria's Rivers state early Sunday

Nigeria: Military-Sanctioned Killings Caught on Video

Some say this is a troubling video. Nigerian soldiers executing two brothers suspected of being militants in the Niger Delta. It is sparking outrage, but the government feels it's sending an equally strong message. Is this the kind of military operation occurring in the delta justified?

Nigeria's State-Owned Oil Company at Center of Parliament Probe

Special parliament committee investigating alleged misappropriation of billions of dollars in state revenue from oil, gas sector since 1999, when Nigeria returned to civilian rule.

NIGERIA: Oil pumping station set alight, militants claim

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, the main rebel group in southern Nigeria, has claimed it has set fire to a pumping station of US oil giant Chevron. The group had warned of new attacks last weekend.

Shell Pays Millions to Settle Activists' Deaths in Nigeria

Royal Dutch Shell, in order to settle several lawsuits brought in a U.S. court, agreed Monday to pay $15.5 million to the families of Nigerian protesters executed by the military regime in the 1990s.

Lamido Sanusi as Central Bank Governor

The Nigerian president may announce this week Lamido Sanusi as the new Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).