PARIS (AFP) – France on Wednesday urged its citizens to leave northern Cameroon after seven members of a French family were seized in a kidnapping officials suspect was carried out by Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram. The family — a couple, their children aged five, eight, 10 and 12 and an uncle — were snatched […]
LAGOS (AFP) – Gunmen who stormed an oil service ship in southern Nigeria have kidnapped six foreigners and demanded a $1.3 million ransom for their release, police told AFP. “Three of those abducted are from Ukraine, two from India one from Russia… One of the kidnappers called to demand the sum of 200 million naira […]
President Jonathan, Monday, has ordered security agencies in th country to rescue the kidnapped foreign workers. According to Reuben Abati, presidential spokesman, in a tweet, “Pres. Jonathan orders security agencies to rescue kidnapped foreign workers…” Meanwhile, Police in Bauchi said four Lebanese, one Briton, a Greek citizen and an Italian were among those taken hostage […]
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – South African police said 13 people were wounded in gun and machete attacks at an Anglo American Platinum mine on Monday, after 1,000 people besieged a union office. “Mine security intervened and fired rubber bullets, and in the process a total of 13 mine workers, inclusive of four security guards (were hurt),” […]
KANO (AFP) – Islamist group Ansaru on Monday claimed the kidnapping of seven foreigners in a deadly weekend raid on a construction site in restive northern Nigeria. The attack in Bauchi state late Saturday was the one of the worst incidents targeting foreigners in northern Nigeria, a region that has seen waves of violence by […]
By Dr. kunle Ojeleye / Calgary, Alberta / Feb. 16, 2013 –I have decided to write this short, reflective travel blog or article against the background of 3 key Nigerian issues which were highlighted recently by write-ups from Okey Ndibe, Pius Adesanmi and Simon Kolawole. These include: the state of Nigerian airports, the unprofessional and […]
African nations are not friendly with Nigeria – Mark Written by Dapo Falade Wednesday, February 13, 2013 SENATE President David Mark has said that the just-concluded African Nations’ Cup had clearly showed that Nigeria had few friends among the nations in the African continent. He also disclosed that the Super Eagles’ coach, Stephen Keshi, initially […]
President Goodluck Jonathan President Goodluck Jonathan’s convoy was Tuesday involved in an accident in Paris as the Nigerian president was traveling with his aides to a meeting with the French President Francois Gerard Hollande, website, SaharaReporters.com is reporting. The website quoted French police sources as saying that the accident occurred 15 minutes away from the […]
KANO (AFP) – Three doctors killed in a knife attack in a volatile town in northeastern on Sunday were South Korean and not Chinese as originally reported, police said. Men armed with knives slit the throats of the three Korean doctors in a pre-dawn attack in the town of Potiskum, police said, in the latest […]
Toronto police say a man has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of a woman whose body was found across the street from an Etobicoke apartment building on Saturday morning. Police issued a news release on Sunday afternoon, indicating that 30-year-old Emmanuel Owusu-Ansah of Toronto had been charged with first-degree murder. […]
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