A lot has been said and is still being written about the recent removal of oil subsidy by the Nigerian government – and rightly so. But I think, when considered dispassionately, the government is right on this one. I’ll give a simplified view.

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Boy! ‘Boko Haram’ is still winning. It is winning big, and it is winning ugly. It is becoming increasingly and unbearably painful to read now on a regular basis, the bombings taking place in Nigeria and the attendant wanton and unnecessary loss of life.

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Also known as dangerous incompetence. We were bequeathed this phenomenon of course by that our brother, Umar Farouk Abdul-Mutallab. Sometime in 2008/09, Farouk, well into his twenties, developed a taste for baby diapers. Eventually, on Christmas day 2009, he donned a Yemeni-made one. Then he got on a US-bound flight, put an airline blanket over his head, put his face in his laps, said his prayers, pulled a Maiduguri-made trigger and blew his balls off directly into his own face.

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Nigeria's U23 team need to "work harder" if they are to make progress at the Olympic qualifying tournament, according to striker Danny Uchechi.

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Nigeria's Islamist Boko Haram sect was responsible for a string of weekend bombings targeting government buildings and churches in Geidam in the northeast, its purported spokesperson said on Monday.

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Fired Nigerian anti-graft boss 'takes sack in good faith' - Three days after she was fired as the Chair of Nigeria's anti-corruption Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs. Farida Waziri has broken her silence, saying she takes the sack in good faith.

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President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday pledged that his administration would do all it could to ensure that Nigerians in diaspora are able to vote in future elections, a news release issued by the Presidency said. According to the presidency, Jonathan, who was speaking at a meeting with representatives of Nigerians resident in France and the United Kingdom, said the Federal Government would initiate talks on the issue with the Independent National Electoral Commission and other relevant bodies.

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Ojukwu's place in Nigeria's history is assured, says President Jonathan - Saying that Ojukwu's place in Nigeria's history is assured, President Goodluck Jonathan said on Saturday that he received, with sadness and a deep feeling of great national loss, the news of the death of Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu in the United Kingdom. According to a presidency press statement, signed by Dr. Reuben Abati, the president's Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Jonathan joins Chief Ojukwu’s family, the government and people of his home state, Anambra, the entire Igbo people of Nigeria and his friends, associates and followers across the country, in mourning him.

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In August 2004, Chinonye Omeje was stirring a pot of stew outside the family’s hut in their Nigerian village. The pretty, slender 14-year-old suffered an epileptic seizure and fell face-first into the fire, the pot dumping its scalding contents onto her head. Her injuries were grievous: Much of her face was melted away, along with an ear. Her right hand was disfigured, and there were deep scars on her neck and chest.

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Nigerian airport officials have fined British Airways $135-million and Virgin Atlantic $100-million amid a dispute over ticket prices, the country's civil aviation authority said on Thursday.

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Three years ago when they arrived in India from the scenic city of Lagos in Nigeria, only one thing was on their mind - to play good football.

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Jonathan inaugurates 21-member panel to review Nigerian constitution - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan Thursday inaugurated a 21-member constitution review committee, and charged them to work out the 'settled' areas of national discourse. The committee will also draft bills that will be considered by the executive branch of the federal government before sending them to the National Assembly for consideration and enactment into law.

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Indications emerged on Friday that Nigerian lawmakers may have soft-pedalled on their vehement opposition to the planned removal of fuel subsidy by the federal government. The private Nation reported that the MPs have given four conditions under which they would support the removal of fuel subsidy, listing them as the publication of the list of the beneficiaries of the past fuel subsidy; presentation of facts and figures on the subsidy; release of palliative measures Nigerians will enjoy after the removal and a concrete plan to make local refineries work at full capacity.

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Nigeria to save US$ 2.1 billion, using cassava flour for bread - Nigeria's Agriculture Minister Akinwumi Adeshina, said if bakers adopt 50 per cent cassava flour inclusion in bread bakery, the country, which is the world's largest producer of cassava, would save more than 315 billion naira (about US$ 2.1 billion) annually.

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Nigeria has realised 65 billion naira from its sale of 10-year sovereign bonds, at yields 150 basis points lower than its previous auction in October, according to a statement from Debt Management Office (DMO).

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Hundreds of prospective holiday makers gathered on Monday in London to explore various holiday destinations and tourists' sites located in West Africa, especially Nigeria.

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Nokia will add a Windows 8 tablet to its product line in June 2012, a French newspaper reported in an interview with the head of Nokia in France.

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40 yr old Nigerian cab driver, Domingo Ezirike, was shot and killed on Oct 22, at approximately 3.35am (early hours) by 20-year-old Rashad Terrell Slye after the two had a dispute over 75 cent cab fare. Mr Ezirike is survived by a wife and three little girls

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While on a state visit to Nigeria, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe vowed Saturday to help the nation in its fight against Islamic extremism. The radical group Boko Haram has claimed credit for a wave of violent attacks in the country's north.

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We help to meet the world's growing energy needs in economically, environmentally and socially responsible ways, claims the oil giant Shell on its website.

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