South African Eeben Barlow, the mercenary once recruited by Nigerian government to fight Boko Haram has staged a come-back with his ‘Executive Outcomes.’ Barlow is often described as a security expert with knowledge of Africa conflicts and crimes. Barlow and his private army was hired by the  Goodluck Jonathan government to help fight Boko Haram ...

More than 200 million Nigerians will slide further into poverty as the coronavirus pandemic has sent oil prices tumbling and pushed Africa’s largest economy into recession. To many in oil-rich Nigeria, Saturday’s announcement of a recession was no surprise — even the president had warned a downturn was coming. “It feels like we have been ...

Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, said Nigerians should be proud that the country is importing petrol from Niger Republic as a way of boosting intra-regional trade. He spoke as guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday evening. Some Nigerians had expressed their displeasure at the MoU signed between Nigeria and Niger ...

The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, has reported a second recession in five years for the Nigerian economy, this time far worse than that of 2016. The figures by NBS revealed that the economy shrank again in the third quarter of this year. The Muhammadu Buhari government has faltered on the economic front since 2015 ...

At a time Nigerian government is pampering Boko Haram terrorists cum jihadists with money and reintegration into the society, a Malian jihadist leader of the Katiba of Ansar dine du Sud, Souleymane Keita, and two other men, all accused of terrorism, were sentenced to death on by the Bamako Court of Assizes, according to judicial ...

Nigeria’s Super Eagles have dropped by three spots in the October ranking to place 32nd in the world after losing one of its international friendly match and drawing another within the period under review. In the ranking table on the website of the world football governing body on Thursday, Nigeria garnered 1488 points in the ...

Nigeria has been barred from the US visa lottery application for 2022, a document published on the US Government website showed. In a 19-page document published on the website, Nigeria is the only African country barred from the visa lottery. “For DV-2022, persons born in the following countries are not eligible to apply, because more ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday night met behind closed doors with President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Bashir Ahmad, the President’s Personal Assistant on New Media, confirmed this on his Twitter handle. The presidential aide, who could not elaborate on the agenda of the meeting between the two leaders, however, posted ...

OPEC oil producers and allies such as Russia, a grouping dubbed OPEC+, meets on Wednesday to review compliance with oil cuts meant to support oil prices amid the coronavirus pandemic. OPEC+ is unlikely to change its output policy, which currently calls for reducing output by 7.7 million barrels per day (bpd) versus a record high ...

Seven African countries will start administering coronavirus antibody tests from next week, a regional body said on Thursday, as part of efforts to understand the extent of the outbreak on the continent. “Liberia, Sierra Leone, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Nigeria, Morocco are the first set of countries that committed to it,” said John Nkengasong, head of ...