20101023
This Day

Kaduna — The Executive Director of the Human Rights Monitor (HRM) Mr. Festus Okoye has raised eyebrows over what he described as "the secrecy surrounding the arraignment" of the suspects linked with the October 1 bomb blast in Abuja before a chief magistrate court in Abuja.

20101021
africanews

A Nigerian fan has been killed after clashes ensued following the victory of English champions Chelsea over Spartak Moscow Tuesday in the Champions League. The Punch quotes a report by the News Agency of Nigeria that the fan was killed in Gokana, Rivers state in the Niger Delta region.

20101021
africanews

Two members of FIFA's Executive Committee, Nigeria's Amos Adamu and Reynald Temarii from Tahiti were provisionally suspended from taking part in any football-related activity after FIFA Ethics Committee examined their cases in relation to the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups.

20101020
Vanguard

Abuja — NINETEEN days after the October 1 twin bomb blasts in Abuja that nearly marred the nation's Golden Independence Anniversary, the Federal Government said, yesterday, it was now set to prosecute Charles Okah, the younger brother of South Africa based alleged militant leader, Henry Okah and four others.

20101018
africanews

Johannesburg — The bail application of Nigerian former militant leader Henry Okah was postponed in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court on Monday.

20101016
This Day

Lagos — The Federal Government yesterday tightened security at the busy Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, a day after the militant group, the Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) threatened an imminent attack in the nation's capital, travellers said.

20101017
reuters

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's secret service has arrested the brother of militant leader Henry Okah a day after a warning was emailed to media that another bomb attack was planned for the capital Abuja, a security source said on Sunday.

20101017
africanews

A Nigerian who serves as a FIFA executive committee member Amos Adamu and his other colleague are being investigated for offering to sell their votes in the contest to host the 2018 World Cup. President of the Oceania Football Confederation Reynald Temarii was also caught in the undercover report demanding payment.

20101017
africanews

A new governor has been sworn-in in Ekiti state, south west Nigeria after a Federal Appeal Court declared the gubernatorial candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria Kayode Fayemi, as the governor of Ekiti State, deposing incumbent governor Segun Oni of the ruling People`s Democratic Party.

20101015
reuters

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria needs to move quickly to establish a new election timetable and get on with registering voters if it is to hold credible polls next year, a group of international observers said on Friday.

20101015
reuters

LAGOS (Reuters) - A Nigerian militant group said on Friday it planned to carry out another bomb attack in the capital Abuja this month, after claiming twin car bombs in the city two weeks ago which killed at least 10 people.

20101011
reuters

Washington, DC — Fifty years after independence, Africa's most populous nation is at a crossroad – heading towards an election that can either empower a reform-minded public or entrench a system that has failed the people.

20101011
reuters

LAGOS (Reuters) - Britain needs to enforce money laundering regulations more strictly after some of its leading high street banks accepted millions of pounds in deposits from corrupt Nigerian politicians, a graft watchdog said on Monday.

20101011
reuters

LAGOS (Reuters) - When Nigeria's central bank sacked eight of the country's most senior bankers last year during an unprecedented $4 billion bailout, many doubted they would be prosecuted, let alone jailed.

20101011
africanews

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has called on citizens of West Africa's most populous country to embrace their culture and avoid the tendency "to think and believe that only things from foreign lands are good, modern or hip."

20101010
This Day

No fewer than 700 persons have been displaced following the recent flooding of about 10 communities around Mile 12 and Ikorodu area of Lagos State just as unofficial report put the number of missing persons at 3.

201010109
This Day

Abuja — Barely a week after he regained his freedom from the cell of the State Security Services, (SSS), where he was detained for questioning over the Oct 1 bomb blasts in Abuja, Director-General of Ibrahim Babangida Campaign Organisation, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, yesterday narrated his ordeal in the hands of the security operatives.

20101001
africanews

The presidency is holding the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Mr. Henry Okah, and South Africa responsible for the bomb explosions that killed at least 16 innocent souls yesterday in Abuja with over 30 others critically injured.

20101001
africanews

Blasts that rocked an area near Nigeria's independence celebrations have killed at least seven people, including a police officer. Reports out of Abuja say two car bombs detonated in Nigeria's capital and a third explosion hit a venue where the president was celebrating the nation's 50th independence anniversary.

20101001
africanews

Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan has said that the perpetrators of the bomb explosions in Abuja during the country's 50th anniversary on Friday would be found and dealt with. The incident has so far claimed about eight lives in the Federal Capital Territory, according to police reports.