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Two explosions rocked parts of Yenagoa at about midnight on Friday, said the Joint Military Task Force, JTF. The JTF spokesman, Lt.-Col. Timothy Antigha, on Saturday said the explosions went off in certain parts Yenagoa, but there were no casualties. Antigha advised the residents of the city to remain calm and go about their normal businesses lawfully, “as the JTF ...

The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Professor Viola Adaku Onwuliri, was on Wednesday confronted by enraged Nigerian activists in New York, who were prepared to unleash their anger on the minister as a form of protest against the recent fuel subsidy removal, bad governance, and corruption in Nigeria. Watch the video:

The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, on Saturday described the Friday bomb attacks in Kano city as another demonstration of Federal Government’s embarrassing cluelessness on how to tackle the Boko Haram crisis. The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, also said it was an irony that the Federal Government that “deployed armed troops against unarmed citizens in ...

After the multiple bombs that were detonated on Friday in various locations in Kano that killed more than 150 people (although the Federal Government reported 7), members of the violent islamic sect Boko Haram, dropped leaflets all over the city. Below is a copy of the leaflets and its translation. In the name of God, the most beneficent and merciful. ...

President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed his condolences to all victims, including the management and staff of Channels Television, following the multiple bomb blasts and acts of violence which rocked the city of Kano on Friday, in which seven persons were confirmed dead and others wounded. Among the seven persons killed in the incident was a reporter with Channels Television in ...