Abuja: Nigeria launched an investigation into the massive suicide attack at the high security UN headquarters here, as the number of dead in the bombing went up to 19 on Saturday. A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into the building of the UN Headquarters in the Nigerian capital on Friday, destroying a huge portion of the five-storey building that houses 400 UN employees. Officials on Saturday said that 19...
06:21 PM, Aug 27, 2011
Abuja: A large explosion struck the United Nations' main office in Nigeria's capital on Friday, flattening one wing of the building. A UN official in Geneva called it a bomb attack. "I saw scattered bodies," said Michael Ofilaje, a UNICEF worker at the building. "Many people are dead." He said it felt like "the blast came from the basement and shook the building." The building houses about 400 employees of...
04:25 PM, Aug 26, 2011
United Nations: India has contributed to a large reduction in global poverty, according to the UN annual report on the Millennium Development Goals, which also pointed out that despite progress, the most vulnerable sections of society were being left out. The report, which was released on Thursday, said that poverty continues to decline in many countries and regions. It said that the fastest and sharpest reductions in poverty were in...
10:43 AM, Jul 08, 2011
Abuja: At least 25 people were killed and more than 30 injured, when members of Islamic sect of Boko Haram threw bombs and fired shots into a beer garden in Nigeria's northern city of Maiduguri. The two men who attacked the place known as Dala beer shops came on motorbikes and hurriedly escaped after the attack in the town which serves as the group s enclave and also the capital...
01:42 PM, Jun 27, 2011
Geneva: The United Nations endorsed the rights of gay, lesbian and transgender people for the first time ever on Friday, passing a resolution hailed as historic by the US and other backers and decried by African and Muslim countries. The declaration was cautiously worded, expressing "grave concern" about abuses because of sexual orientation and commissioning a global report on discrimination against gays. But activists called it an important shift on...
01:26 AM, Jun 18, 2011
Abuja: Goodluck Jonathan was on Sunday sworn in for a full four year term as Nigerian President after winning an election regarded as the fairest amongst the four held since the oil-rich country returned to democracy in 1999. This is the second time he has has been sworn into office in just over a year. Jonathan first took office on May 6, 2010 after the death of President Umaru Musa...
08:07 PM, May 29, 2011
Nairobi/Abuja: At least 15 people died on Friday in twin car bomb blasts in the Nigerian capital Abuja as the West African nation commemorated the 50th anniversary of its independence from Britain, witnesses said. In an e-mail alert, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) earlier said it had planted bombs and gave people 30 minutes to begin evacuating Eagle Square in Abuja, where President Goodluck Jonathan...
09:33 PM, Oct 01, 2010
Niamey: A tape released on Thursday on a Jihadist forum showed the first images of a group of hostages including five French citizens since they were seized two weeks ago in Niger by an Al-Qaeda offshoot and taken into the desert. The four-minute tape showed images of the hostages sitting cross-legged by men brandishing automatic weapons, wearing face-covering turbans. French officials believe the seven hostages are now in the bordering...
11:47 AM, Oct 01, 2010
Nigerian President said Facebook posts persuaded him to reverse his suspension of the national football team. ...
07:24 PM, Jul 06, 2010
A set of Nigerian conjoined twins have been successfully separated at a hospital in Bangalore. ...
09:59 PM, Jun 08, 2010
As many as 300 people were killed in communal riots in Nigeria on Sunday. ...
03:43 PM, Mar 09, 2010
A detention hearing was scheduled to be held on Friday in a Detroit court. ...
03:00 AM, Jan 07, 2010
Coming soon to an airport near you is a full-body scanner. ...
11:51 AM, Jan 06, 2010
The MP has kicked up a storm with his statements. ...
11:49 AM, Jan 06, 2010
The move comes in response to the failed bombing attempt in US. ...
11:40 PM, Dec 30, 2009
A 23-year-old Nigerian boy allegedly employed as a detonating device. ...
10:48 AM, Dec 30, 2009
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The Nigerian tried to bomb a Northwest Airlines plane. ...
11:08 PM, Dec 29, 2009
A 23-year-old Nigerian is charged with attempting to blow up the US plane. ...
03:05 AM, Dec 29, 2009
'Verbally disruptive' Nigerian passenger taken into custody. ...
02:06 AM, Dec 28, 2009
The 23-year-old received a college degree at the University College of London. ...
11:59 AM, Dec 27, 2009
