Maiduguri: Assailants shot and stabbed to death 27 students in the second attack near colleges in Nigeria's troubled northeast in the last few days, school authorities said on Tuesday, but police say the attacks killed 19 students and six others. Danjuma Aiso, a student at Federal Polytechnic Mubi, a college in the town of Mubi in Adamawa State, said attackers invaded the student accommodation outside the campus between 10 pm...
01:33 AM, Oct 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Nigerian Navy fought off pirates who had hijacked an oil ship off the coast off Lagos. Twenty-three Indian sailors and other crew members have been released safely. The Singapore owned vessel was headed to the US when armed pirates came on board. The ship's crew managed to send out a distress call. The pirates were armed and attacked crew members after boarding the ship. The pirates forced...
09:54 AM, Sep 06, 2012
New Delhi: The oil vessel hijacked by pirates off the Nigerian coast was set free by the Nigerian Navy on Wednesday evening. All the crew members including 22 Indian sailors are safe and have been taken to a safe port. MT Abu Dhabi Star was hijacked around 14 nautical miles from the entrance to Lagos port on Tuesday evening. Piracy offshore of Nigeria and other countries in West Africa's oil-rich...
08:56 PM, Sep 05, 2012
Mumbai: A 43-year-old woman professor at a city college has become the latest victim of the Nigerian fraud, losing around Rs 11.50 lakh to cheats who sent her an email stating she had won $8,50,000 under an ICC World Cup Mobile Lucky Draw. The city cyber cell said that they had been sensitising people about the email trick popularly called Nigerian fraud, but the greed was making people fall prey...
05:12 PM, Aug 28, 2012
London: The U.S. men's Olympic basketball team beat Nigeria 156-73 Thursday night, an epic blowout that answered the Americans' detractors and sent a clear message to let them be. After two opening routs that provoked criticism of their slow starts and outside shooting, the Americans rewrote the record books. They led by 26 in the first quarter, had an Olympic-record 78 points in the first half and Carmelo Anthony scored...
09:27 AM, Aug 03, 2012
Abuja: Two Indians were killed and one injured when suspected members of Boko Haram Islamic sect on Wednesday attacked a factory in Nigeria's northern city of Maiduguri. "Suspected members of Boko Haram terrorists attacked a Gum Arabic Factory located at Bayan quarters, Maiduguri metropolis today at about 10:00 hrs during heavy rain," a spokesman of a military Joint Task Force, Lt Col Sagir Musa told PTI but couldn't give the...
02:56 AM, Jul 26, 2012
London: A wealthy businessman from Nigeria - and husband to six women - died after allegedly being forced into a marathon sex session with his elder five wives after they became jealous when the man had sex with his youngest spouse. Uroko Onoja was having sex with his youngest wife, when the remaining five came on to him with knives and sticks, and allegedly demanded that he have sex with...
03:09 PM, Jul 25, 2012
Abuja: As many as 200 villagers trying to scoop up fuel from an overturned tanker were killed in southern Nigeria on Thursday, when the petrol carrying vehicle exploded in a horrific inferno. The incident occurred in a village of the southern Rivers state where people had rushed to collect petrol that had spilled from a tanker that had overturned. Eyewitnesses said the fuel-laden tanker skidded off the road, spilling its...
12:28 AM, Jul 13, 2012
Abuja: A bomb exploded outside a busy night club in Abuja, just hours after the Nigerian President sacked national security adviser and defence minister, further fuelling unrest after recent attacks in the country's north. The blast occurred around midnight, no human casualties were reported but it destroyed vehicles at the parking lot and shattered windows of some buildings. "The explosions went off outside Kryxtal Lounge. Cars were destroyed, windows of...
06:18 PM, Jun 23, 2012
Abuja: India has overtaken the US to become Nigeria's largest market for exports, according to the first quarter Trade Statistics released by the oil-rich African country's National Bureau of Statistics. The moving of the US to the second position is seen as a major development for Nigerian and Indian trade relations, given that the US had remained the country's largest export market since 1964. In a broader context, the NBS...
05:48 PM, Jun 23, 2012
Abuja: At least 4 people were killed and 41 injured on June 10 in a suicide bomb blast that ripped through a church in Nigeria, the police said. Emmanuel Ayeni, police commissioner of Plateau State, said the suicide bomber was among the dead in the incident in state capital Jos, Xinhua reported. He said the bomber joined worshippers at the Christ Chosen Charismatic Church during Sunday's mass, and approached the...
11:37 AM, Jun 11, 2012
New Delhi: Two Indians were among the 193 victims of Sunday's plane crash in Nigeria. One was the co-pilot, Mahendra Singh Rathore, and the other was Kerala engineer Rijo Eldos. The families are hoping to get the bodies soon, though rescue workers have been able to find just about 130 bodies. An initial probe claims that the pilot of the Dana Airline flight sounded an SOS of engine failure right...
08:05 AM, Jun 05, 2012
Kochi: Rijo Eldos, a young computer engineer hailing from Neriamangalam in Idukki district of Kerala, was one of the 153 victims who was on the Nigerian airplane that crashed on Sunday in the densely populated city of Lagos. According to his family in Kochi, Eldos was travelling from Abuja to Lagos to take part in a company meeting. He was working with Reddington Nigeria. The family is hoping that they...
04:24 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Lagos: A commercial airliner crashed into a densely populated neighbourhood in Nigeria's largest city on Sunday, killing all 153 people on board and others on the ground in the worst air disaster in nearly two decades for the troubled nation. The cause of the Dana Air crash remained unknown on Sunday night, as firefighters and police struggled to put out the flames around the wreckage of the Boeing MD83 aircraft....
07:04 AM, Jun 04, 2012
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12:58 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Abuja: At least 153 people are feared to have died when a passenger plane carrying them crashed into a building in a residential area of Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos on Sunday. The aircraft belonging to Dana air caught fire immediately sending billows of thick black smoke into the air at the Iju neighbourhood where it went down. Civil Aviation Authority officials believed there were little chances of finding any survivors....
10:53 PM, Jun 03, 2012
Lagos: A passenger plane crashed into a two-story building in Nigeria's largest city of Lagos on Sunday, officials said. Casualty figures were not yet known, said Lagos state emergency manager Femi Oke-Osanyinpolu. The Dana Air flight was taking passengers from Lagos to Abuja, said Harold Denuren, head of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority. Federal emergency management confirmed the crash in a neighborhood just outside the airport and said that its...
10:01 PM, Jun 03, 2012
Kano: Gunmen killed at least 15 people and wounded many more on Sunday in an attack on a university theatre being used by Christian worshippers in Kano, a northern Nigerian city where hundreds have died in Islamist attacks this year. Security sources said gunmen arrived on motorbikes and threw small homemade bombs into the theatre before shooting fleeing worshippers. There was sporadic gunfire in other parts of the city later...
01:40 AM, Apr 30, 2012
Abuja: Heavily armed militants launched vicious attacks at a University campus in northern Nigeria's restive Kano city on Sunday, targeting worshippers at two church services and leaving at least 20 people dead. The two centres were targeted simultaneously at the Bayero University when Christians were holding church services. The militants, who came on motorcycles, first threw explosives at the services, and then attacked the panic stricken people as they tried...
08:47 PM, Apr 29, 2012
