Police in north-eastern Nigeria have arrested seven suspects and recovered nearly 300 stolen pipeline parts following an operation targeting critical energy infrastructure. Operatives from the Inspector-General of Police Special Task Force on Petroleum and Illegal Bunkering, alongside the...
Nigeria’s central bank opened dollar and pound accounts for a fictitious presidential council that operated inside the government for months, a parliamentary inquiry has heard. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) revealed at a House of Representatives hearing that it activated two...
A former senior intelligence officer has dismissed decades of conspiracy theories surrounding the death of Nigeria’s former military ruler General Sani Abacha, claiming he died of a cardiac arrest during an intimate encounter. Dennis Amachree, a former assistant director at...
More than a dozen oil and gas blocks offered in Nigeria’s latest licensing round failed to attract any bids from investors, energy regulators have revealed. Speaking at a commercial bid conference in Abuja on Tuesday, Oritsemeyiwa Eyesan, Chief Executive of the Nigerian Upstream...
Nigeria’s Ministry of Defence has dismissed reports claiming that Defence Minister General Christopher Musa plans to resign, calling the allegations “completely fabricated”. In a statement released on Monday, the ministry urged the public to ignore the claims, which have...
