Although it is still early days, Nigerians yesterday got a taste of the full deregulation of the downstream sector of the oil industry as pump price differentiation was the order of the day in filling stations across the country. Also, condemnation and commendation continued to trail the government’s decision to remove the subsidy on petrol. Meanwhile, a...

The 40-man committee for the burial of Odumegwu-Ojukwu has  fixed  Feb. 3, 2012  as the date for the burial of the late Ikemba of Nnewi. Sen. Uche Chukwumerije, the Deputy Chairman of the committee, disclosed this at a news conference in Abuja on Saturday. Ojukwu died on Nov. 26 in London after a protracted illness. Chukwumerije...

Dear Mr. President, We should say Merry Christmas but we are not your goverment, we are not in the business of deception. After almost ten hours of gathering your thoughts to speak on the bomb blasts that rocked the nation yesterday, you still fell short of your own very low standards. What did you intend to...

In the chaos after the Christmas terror attack on a Catholic church, one mortally wounded man cradled his wounded stomach and begged a priest for religious atonement. “Father, pray for me. I will not survive,” he said. At least 35 people died at St. Theresa Catholic Church and dozens were wounded as radical Muslim militants launched...

At least 40 people were dead Sunday after explosions hit two churches in Nigeria amid a wave of sectarian attacks targeting Africa’s most populous nation. The first blast struck St. Theresa Church in Madalla, a town in Niger state close to the capital, Abuja, authorities said. The explosion destroyed at least eight cars parked near the...

Police have charged 20-year-old Rashad Terrell Slye of Southeast with first-degree murder while armed for the shooting of Domingo Ezirike of Prince Georges County. Police officers discovered 40-year-old Ezirike in the driver’s seat of his cab shortly before 4 a.m., sitting in the grass in the 4300 block of Ponds Street Northeast near Anacostia Avenue. Emergency...

A Nigerian armed Islamist group has carried out a series of attacks in the Yobe state capital of Damaturu, leaving more than 100 people dead. The blasts occurred just before Eid al-Adha, or the feast of sacrifice, celebrated by Muslims around the world. Boko Haram has been active since 2002, with its fighters killing hundreds...

At least 18 people were killed in a suicide car-bomb attack on a United Nations office complex in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, police said. The explosion took place today after a Honda CR-V crashed into the main UN building on Independence Avenue in the central business district, Abuja Police Commissioner Mike Zuokumor told reporters. More than...