ABUJA, Nigeria—Gunmen attacked a train near Nigeria’s capital on Monday night with explosives and gunfire, killing an unspecified number of the nearly 1,000 passengers on board, authorities and survivors told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The attackers used explosives to first blow up the rail track before opening fire on the train near Abuja in…
Nigerian Rail Service Suspended After ‘Terrorists’ Attack Train Carrying Nearly 1,000 Passengers
A group of suspected terrorist bandits attacked a passenger train headed to the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna from the capital Abuja late on Monday by detonating explosives on the rail track in order to trap the train, officials said. One of the passengers also confirmed the bombing on social media, saying attackers destroyed the engines…
Days of Attacks Kill at Least 70 People in Northwest Nigeria
ABUJA, Nigeria—Gunmen have killed nearly 70 members of a local defense group in Nigeria’s northwest region in attacks since Sunday and the violence is continuing, members of the force and residents told The Associated Press. The attackers ambushed members of the local defense group in the Zuru area of Kebbi state as they were responding…
Nigeria Sues JP Morgan for $1.7 Billion Over Oil Deal
LONDON—A London high court began to hear a lawsuit on Wednesday launched by Nigeria against U.S. bank JP Morgan Chase, claiming more than $1.7 billion for its role in a disputed 2011 oilfield deal. The civil suit filed in the English courts relates to the purchase by energy majors Shell and Eni of the offshore…
Nigeria: Paramilitary Groups Grapple with Spreading Lawlessness in Yoruba States
By dusk on Jan. 30, 2022, Motunrayo Shittu, 30, held her infant and fretted that her husband, who had phoned an hour earlier, hadn’t returned as promised. After several hours, she took her worries to bed with her three children. The next morning, her cell phone lit up with a call from hubby: the politician…
China Strengthens Security Ties With Nigeria
February 20, 2022
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The Chinese Communist Party, CCP’s footprint is expanding across West Africa, and with it, China’s concern for its own nationals in the region. Three Chinese nationals working at a hydropower plant in Niger State were kidnapped on Jan. 4, pushing China to review its security ties with Nigeria. China’s ambassador previously had announced the sending…
Nigeria’s Okagbare Banned for 10 Years for Doping at Tokyo Olympics
Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare has been banned for 10 years for doping in the lead-up to the Tokyo Olympics and refusing to cooperate with the investigation, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Friday, effectively ending her career. Okagbare, who won silver in the long jump at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, was provisionally suspended…
South Africa: ‘Shoot the Farmer’ Song Enflames Race and Land Tensions
Above the slightly built woman, on the wall of the farmhouse near a small town in South Africa’s North West province, is a framed photograph. It shows her wearing a stylish sunshine-yellow dress, black hair cascading onto her shoulders. The man alongside her is wearing a smart navy suit and tie, giving a thumbs-up to…
South Africa: ‘Shoot the Farmer’ Song Inflames Race and Land Tensions
Above the slightly built woman, on the wall of the farmhouse near a small town in South Africa’s North West province, is a framed photograph. It shows her wearing a stylish sunshine-yellow dress, black hair cascading onto her shoulders. The man alongside her is wearing a smart navy suit and tie, giving a thumbs-up to…
Terrorists Targeting Civilian Guard Groups in Nigerian Villages
The air was a chill 55 degrees at midnight on Jan. 12, about as cold as it gets on the forested savannah of Nigeria’s north Plateau state, but John Rivi couldn’t think about the cold. Despite the darkness he could see the flashlights of 500 terrorists with assault rifles heading for his village of Ancha,…
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