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
Abuja: At least 50 people were feared killed in two car bomb explosions near a church during Easter on Sunday services in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna, eye-witnesses and emergency services said. Shehu Sani, the President of Civil Rights Congress based in Kaduna, said two explosions took place at the Assemblies of God's Church near the centre of the city with a large Christian population and known as a...
09:04 PM, Apr 08, 2012
New Delhi: India, which has been polio-free for over a year now, was today taken off the list of polio endemic countries by the World Health Organisation. This announcement was made by Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad at the polio summit 2012 in New Delhi in the presence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Azad said he has received a letter this morning stating that the "WHO has taken India's name...
11:26 AM, Feb 25, 2012
Detroit: A Nigerian man on a suicide mission for al Qaeda was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison for attempting to blow up an international flight with a bomb in his underwear as the plane approached Detroit on Christmas 2009. The mandatory punishment for Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the well-educated son of a wealthy banker, was never in doubt after he surprised the courtroom and pleaded guilty to all charges...
08:44 AM, Feb 17, 2012
Abuja: A lead poisoning in Nigeria's northern state of Zamfara which has killed more than 400 children and affected thousands is "worst" in modern history, an international watch dog has said. Nigeria needs USD 4 million to clean up the area but cleanup has not even begun in many areas, the United States-based Human Rights Watch noted. It has asked for urgent medical attention for thousands of children and villages...
07:14 AM, Feb 08, 2012
Abuja: An Indian was killed in a terror attack in the Nigerian city of Kano that left about 162 people dead, said authorities. Another six Indians, including two children, were injured in the attack. The High Commission of India in Abuja said 23-year-old Kevalkumar Kalidas Rajput has died. Coordinated bomb attacks targeted security forces and gun battles broke out on Friday in Nigeria's second-largest city of Kano. Rajput, who hailed...
11:15 AM, Jan 22, 2012
Nigeria has imposed a 24-hour curfew and sealed its borders with neighbouring Cameroon and Niger. ...
10:47 AM, Jan 22, 2012
Nigerian writer Ben Okri expressed his grief on Salman Rushdie's inability to attend the Jaipur Literature Festival. ...
08:19 AM, Jan 22, 2012
Abuja: A series of coordinated bomb and gun attacks by a radical Islamist sect targeting police stations and the headquarters of Nigeria's secret police in northern city of Kano on Saturday killed nearly 150 people and injured several others, including Indians. Rabiu Kwankwaso, the governor of Kano State, imposed a 24-hour curfew after the bodies, including those of several policemen, were found scattered all over the the state capital, Nigeria's...
02:17 AM, Jan 22, 2012
Abuja: President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday questioned Nigerian police chief over the embarrassing escape of a suspected bomber behind the Christmas day attack just hours after police announced that they had arrested him. Sources at the presidential villa in the country's capital of Abuja said the inspector General of Police, Hafiz Ringim has been given 24 hours to produce the suspect who was arrested at Borno State's governors lodge or...
12:11 PM, Jan 19, 2012
Mumbai: Greed isn't always good. Haryana-based RC Mishra learnt this after paying a hefty price: Rs 51 lakh. The Joint General Manager of Ircon International Limited is the latest victim of what is widely known as the 'Nigerian email fraud'. Haryana police has now detained two conmen from Mumbai and Thane who had cheated the complainant. Recently, Mishra got an email claiming he had won the 'Microsoft Award' in an...
12:41 PM, Jan 17, 2012
Abuja: A powerful blast hit a Catholic church on the outskirts of the Nigerian capital Abuja during a Christmas service on Sunday killing many people, residents said, and one counted 19 bodies from the explosion. Emergency services said 10 bodies had been recovered from the scene so far, and earlier said there were not enough ambulances available to evacuate all the dead and the wounded. Witnesses said St Theresa's Church...
05:38 PM, Dec 25, 2011
Abuja: A bomb blast and gunfire on Tuesday killed at least 10 people and injured many others in Nigeria's troubled city of Maiduguri, according to eyewitnesses. The eyewitnesses said the deaths resulted mainly from the action of the soldiers who burnt houses and shot sporadically after a man was killed while trying to throw a bomb at them. The man died while detonating the bomb following which soldiers started firing....
05:36 AM, Dec 14, 2011
Lagos: More than 100 died in a series of attacks in northeast Nigeria launched by a radical Muslim sect, a Nigerian Red Cross official said on Sunday, as sect gunmen shot and killed another police officer. Ibrahim Bulama told he expected the number of dead to rise as local clinics and hospitals tabulate the casualty figures from the attacks on Friday in Damaturu, the capital of rural Yobe state. While...
08:03 PM, Nov 06, 2011
Lagos: At least 67 people died in a wave of bombings and shootings carried out in northeast Nigeria overnight, officials said on Saturday, as frightened mourners left their homes to begin burying their dead. A radical Muslim sect known locally as Boko Haram claimed responsibility on Saturday for the attacks, which represent the most coordinated and wide-ranging assault yet in their increasingly bloody sectarian fight with Nigeria's weak central government....
08:49 PM, Nov 05, 2011
Maiduguri: Suicide bombers attacked a military base, a car bomb exploded outside a barracks and explosives detonated on Friday around northeast Nigeria, a region under siege from a radical Muslim sect, officials said. While casualties weren't immediately clear, one blast struck outside a school where parents had arrived to pick up their children. There was no claim of responsibility but blame immediately fell to the sect known as Boko Haram,...
02:57 AM, Nov 05, 2011
Lagos: In the grainy video, a Nigerian woman repeatedly asks her attackers to kill her as they take turns raping her at a university dormitory. The five men only promise to drive her home, pushing her back down each time she starts to stand up. Local authorities have dismissed the 10-minute video, which has ricocheted around the Internet in recent days. But Nigeria's youth minister is calling for police to...
08:46 AM, Sep 22, 2011
Washington: The US government on Tuesday urged Niger to detain senior officials from the Gaddafi government who it believes crossed into the country in a convoy from Libya, the US State Department said. Niger officials informed the US ambassador that the convoy carried "a dozen or more" senior members of Gaddafi's government, but gave no indication that Gaddafi himself was among them, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said. "We have...
02:07 AM, Sep 07, 2011
Washington: The US government on Tuesday urged Niger to detain senior officials from the Gaddafi government who it believes crossed into the country in a convoy from Libya, the US State Department said. Niger officials informed the US ambassador that the convoy carried "a dozen or more" senior members of Gaddafi's government, but gave no indication that Gaddafi himself was among them, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said. "We have...
02:07 AM, Sep 07, 2011
New Delhi: A 65-year old Nigerian woman suffering severe rheumatoid arthritis, who hadn't walked for 11 years, is now walking again. She was treated in India and believe it or not, she will be going home with five metallic implants. It's like a second life for 65-year old Margaret to be able to stand up and walk on her own after being bedridden for 11 years. "My fingers were so...
10:36 AM, Sep 06, 2011
