Maiduguri (Nigeria) (AFP) – Suspected Boko Haram Islamists have killed 12 people in Nigeria’s restive northeast, burning homes and stealing cars in an area repeatedly attacked by the insurgent group, police and residents said Saturday. The attack in the Sandiya village happened Thursday in Borno state, Boko Haram’s stronghold, but details were slow to emerge given the communication shutdown in the area. Borno is one of three Nigerian areas where a state of emergency has been imposed and where the military has shut down the mobile phone network in an attempt to block Islamists from coordinating attacks. “Hoodlums invaded the…
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Abuja (AFP) – Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has been given the all clear to travel after falling ill while on an official visit to London, his spokesman said Saturday. Jonathan was forced to skip a meeting Thursday with an investment advisory group after “the sudden onset of several abdominal pains,” Reuben Abati said in a statement. “After a thorough evaluation of the president’s symptoms, medically referred to as acute abdomen, the doctors concluded that no surgical intervention was required,” Abati said. The leader of Africa’s most populous country will therefore leave Britain Sunday and return to Nigeria’s capital Abuja, added…
YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Hearing his neighbors’ screams around midnight, a businessman in northeast Nigeria ripped off his pajamas and jumped out a window, hoping his dark skin would not be visible to the people attacking his village.Like many villages in the region in recent weeks, Mbitiku was under attack from Islamic militants competing with the government for support.Before the attack, the insurgents sent threatening letters to the village ordering young men to join their Boko Haram insurgency.”Boko Haram people were going from one house to the other slaughtering people by slicing their throats,” the survivor told The Associated Press…
Nigeria moves away from reliance on oil Friday, 22 Nov 2013 | 1:15 AM ET Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, finance minister of Nigeria, says that the country is look for more equal and “inclusive” growth. Nigeria must work faster to reduce its dependence on oil for its economic growth, the country’s finance minister told CNBC. Nigeria’s oil reserves, production and exports generate around 70 percent of the government’s revenues but Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said the country had many untapped growth opportunities it needed to explore in order to maintain a high growth rate. “Nigeria is one of the fastest growing countries in the…
Lagos (AFP) – Nigeria’s lower house of parliament Thursday voted to probe giant state-run oil firm NNPC over its alleged failure to account for about $13 billion from crude sales this year.The House of Representatives adopted a motion sponsored by one of its members, Haruna Manu, asking the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to account for the volume and value of crude sold in the first eight months of 2013.”NNPC has remained in a dark tunnel. How long will it remain in that tunnel?,” asked lawmaker Samson Osagie during the debate before the motion was adopted.Lagos-based AIT private television showed…
KADUNA, Nigeria, Nov. 21 (UPI) — Nearly 3,000 people have died and thousands wounded in at least 30 pipeline accidents in Nigeria in the last 15 years, says a petroleum industry official. Bafred Enjugu, acting managing director of a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp., revealed the numbers during a workshop for company workers, Channel Television reported Wednesday. An October 1998 pipeline fire killed more than 1,000 people in Delta State in the southeastern region of Nigeria, Enjugu said. Since then pipeline disasters have occurred in areas around the port city of Lagos as well as several other states,…
Delta State Government, yesterday, said it has purchased N4.5 billion equity from three private owners that took over from the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, despite its failure to win an outright bid in the deregulated power sector. Briefing newsmen in Asaba, during the presentation of his mid-term report, the State Commissioner for Energy, Mr. Charles Emetulu, explained that the aim was to protect Deltans especially those in the rural areas from neglect. We have invested over N4.5 billion to buy shares from three of the private companies, so we are part of them now. As a Government,…
After the recent setback occasioned by activities of youths of Ibusa community, the installation of the Delta State Government’s integrated waste management facilities are to commence immediately just as the State Commissioner for Environment, Chief Frank Omare said over 2000 Deltans would be employed once the facilities becomes operational. He explained that at completion, the temporal dumpsite along the Benin/Asaba expressway will be closed. Omare ,who added that all is set for the installation of the Warri integrated waste management facilities, blamed the delay in the commencement of Ibusa facilities on the inability of the State Government to prepare the…
Governor Uduaghan has been commended for solving the problem of traffic congestion in Uvwie Local Government area. HRM, Emmanuel Ekemejewan Sideso, the Ovie of Uvwie kingdom, made the commendation when the management of Consolidated Construction Company (CCC), contractors of Effurun roundabout flyover and phase II of Osubi Airport projects, paid him a courtesy visit at his temporary palace, Jakpa Road, Effurun. The traditional ruler noted that the roundabout project is dear to the Governor and Uvwie people, remarking that this was the first time the Governor is embarking in a project of such magnitude in the State. He advised his…
Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has said his administration is obligated to protect the environment and people of the State, especially those that are most vulnerable to the impact and consequences of climate change. Speaking at the official launch of the Delta State Climate Change Policy and Integrated Territorial Climate Plan in Asaba, the Governor said, climate change has become a daunting environmental challenge facing the world today and it can no longer be ignored as its effects are beginning to manifest. Governor Uduaghan who was represented by his deputy, Prof. Amos Utuama (SAN), asserted that the devastating impact…