A coordinated series of bomb blasts and shooting sprees mostly targeting police stations Friday sent panicked residents of Kano, Nigeria's second most populated city running for cover.

The Nigeria Customs Services (NCS) and Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) Tuesday said the management of the country’s crude oil and importation of petroleum products by Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) lacks transparency and is fraught with corruption. 

The Senate yesterday passed a bill seeking to increase the retirement age of academic staff in professorial cadre from 65 to 70 years in Nigerian universities.

There were palpable anger in Aso Rock on Tuesday over the avoidable escape of Alhaji Kabir Sokoto, the suspected mastermind of the bombing of St. Theresa Catholic Church, Madalla, on Christmas day as the Inspector General of Police, Mr Hafiz Ringim has been queried over the incident and faces sack if he is found guilty of complicity. 

Acting under presidential mandate to foster accountability and good corporate governance in government, especially as regards payments to oil marketers as subsidy, operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, visited the Abuja office of the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency (PPPRA).

Liberia's president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was sworn in Monday for a second term in a ceremony well attended by associates, international community and main political opponent in the last election, Mr. Winston Tubman.

The Cable News Network (CNN), on Monday afternoon, demanded explanations from the Nigerian government over the invasion of its Lagos offices by State Security Service (SSS) agents.

The Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, has called for the immeadiate withdrawal of troops deployed by the federal government to the commercial city to prevent further protests during the suspended six-day strike against the withdrawal of fuel subsidy.

Indications emerged Sunday night that the Federal government is set announce a new petrol pump price of N97 on Monday morning. This is coming on the heels of the meeting between Organized  and the federal government on Sunday

The Bayelsa State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has raised an alarm over the exclusion of its governorship candidate by the Independent National Electoral Commission from the list of candidates to contest the February 11 governorship election in the state.

Nigeria may have lost about N1trillon to the protests on removal of petrol subsidy as the nationwide shutdown championed by the organised  labour, civil societies and masses entered the fifth day.

After a long meeting with the federal government on thursday, the leadership of Nigerian Labour Congress/Trade Union Congress have asked its membership who had been on strike and engaging in street protests over the removal of petrol subsidy by government, to go on a 2 days break for Saturday and Sunday with resumption fixed for Monday.

Ghanaian police have arrested five men and seized a soft-drinks distribution truck loaded with guns and ammunition believed to be heading to Nigeria, a police spokesman said on Wednesday.

The Central Bank (CBN) Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi insists, the removal of fuel subsidy goes beyond what labour and other civil societies are opposing. In his view, removing fuel subsidy will ensure economic growth.

The President Goodluck Jonathan administration Tuesday,  sent a two-man team to the negotiation meeting being brokered by the President of the Senate, Chief David Mark with labour leaders.