Shell to face human rights claims in UK over chronic oil pollution in Niger delta
More than 13,000 Nigerian villagers can bring legal claims against oil firm, rules high court Thousands of Nigerian villagers can bring human rights claims against...
Category : Nigeria
‘Corruption is not an African issue’: bank chief says it’s time to believe in the continent’s future
In an exclusive interview, Akinwumi Adesina, head of the African Development Bank and ‘optimist-in-chief’, says the outlook is good for a continent with both the...
Nurse main suspect in death of Afrobeats star MohBad, say Nigerian police
Lagos police chief says unnamed nurse injected singer before his death last month A nurse has been identified as the “principal suspect” in the mysterious...
Nigerian police detain Afrobeats star Naira Marley over death of MohBad
Boss of rising singer’s former music label has denied any involvement in unexplained death Police in Nigeria have detained the Afrobeats star and record label...
Nigerian fans at home laud battle against odds in Women’s World Cup
Despite narrow defeat to England, team’s efforts in Australia win praise after what some saw as a lack of official backing Nigerian football fans in...
Military intervention in Niger is ‘last resort’, says west African bloc
Defence chiefs demand reinstatement of president after coup, which triggered exodus of foreign nationals Defence chiefs from west Africa’s regional political and security bloc have...
Four Nigerians survive 14 days on ship’s rudder before Brazilian rescue
Four men traveled about 5,600km before being rescued by Brazilian federal police in south-eastern port of Vitória On their 10th day at sea, the four...
Canary Islands coastguard rescues two men balanced on ship’s rudder
Nigerian stowaways survived for at least a week under ship that voyaged from Lagos via Lomé, Togo The Spanish coastguard rescued two Nigerian men who...
‘I’m left with nothing’: Nigerians feel brunt of economic shakeup
President Tinubu’s policies please foreign investors, but a devalued currency and soaring petrol prices mean ‘national sacrifice mode’ is widely unpopular Nigerians are feeling the...
About 100 wedding guests feared dead as boat capsizes in northern Nigeria
Victims, including women and children, were reportedly returning from ceremony A boat carrying residents returning from a wedding capsized in northern Nigeria killing about 100...
