Four men torched a car from the ride hailing company Uber in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Wednesday, police said, on the same day Uber launched its services in Mombasa, Kenya’s second largest city. The driver escaped unhurt, police said. This is the second attack against Uber cars in Kenya[…]
Nigeria’s Senate president said on Monday that the country’s parliament would start debating next week an amended Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), a much-delayed plan to overhaul the vital energy sector hit by graft and mismanagement. President Muhammadu Buhari has made it a priority to get approval for the PIB, which[…]
Nigeria and Switzerland have signed an agreement that paves the way for the return of more than $300 million confiscated from the family of the Nigeria’s former military ruler, Sani Abacha, the office of Nigeria’s vice president said on Tuesday. Transparency International, a corruption watchdog, has accused Abacha of stealing[…]
Gombe accounts for half of Nigeria’s malnourished children – UNICEF ‘480 children died of malnutrition in Zamfara’ CSOs decry absence of maternal nutrition in budget NPHCDA tasks religious scholars on immunization 300,000 kids likely to die from malnutrition this year amidst poor funding Up to six out of every 10[…]
A huge explosion rocked a divisional police headquarters in Jimeta town of Nigeria’s northeastern state of Adamawa on Thursday, according to local authorities. The Adamawa state authority has confirmed the suspected bomb blast at the premises of Adamawa Motor Traffic Department of the Nigeria Police. Harun Furo, Permanent Secretary of[…]
More than 70 people have been killed in a double suicide attack at a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northeast Nigeria, local officials told Al Jazeera. The twin suicide bombings in Borno state on Tuesday morning – reportedly committed by women – also left 78 people injured, officials[…]
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has said he is ready to negotiate with Boko Haram for the release of more than 200 girls kidnapped in April last year. In a televised press conference on Wednesday, Buhari said that if the armed group could identify a credible leadership then the Nigerian government[…]
A gas tanker truck ignited an inferno at a crowded industrial gas plant in Nigeria, reportedly killing more than 100 people lining up to refill their cooking gas cylinders. The disaster took place on Thursday in Nnewi, a predominantly Christian community in southeast Nigeria, as residents were rushing to refill[…]
An estimated one million children have been forced out of school as a result of violent attacks by Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria and its neighbouring countries, a new UNICEF report said on Tuesday. The ongoing violence has led to the closure of more than 2,000 schools in Nigeria, Chad,[…]
At least 10 people have been killed in a suicide attack on a Shia procession near Kano city in northwest Nigeria, witnesses told Al Jazeera. Followers of The Islamic Movement of Nigeria were marching from Kano to Zaria through the village of Dakasoye on Friday when the attack struck. The[…]
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