Human rights group, Amnesty International has called for an investigation into the activities of Shell, the oil company for alleged crimes committed by Nigeria’s military in the 1990s.
Officials in Nigeria on Tuesday said that more than at least 50 people have died from a suicide bombing at a mosque in the north-eastern Nigerian town of Mubi in the state of Adamawa.
The Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is visiting the southeastern part of the country, also referred to by some as the Biafra region where there have been calls for secession.
More than 800,000 companies in Nigeria, including government contractors, have never paid any taxes, Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun has revealed.
In a statement, she also said that only 14 million Nigerians, out of an economically active base of 70 million, paid taxes.
Nigeria’s Justice Minister Abubakar Malami, has said that the country recently recovered $85 million of stolen assets from the UK. He claimed the money is linked to the Malabu scandal, a major case of alleged bribery involving oil giants Shell and ENI.
The Malabu scandal is one of the biggest corruption cases to hit Nigeria’s oil industry. Investigators in Nigeria and in Italy claim that $1.1bn – which was paid to the government by international oil companies in 2006 – never made it into the national coffers.
At least 13 people have been killed in three suicide bomb attacks in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri with 16 others sustaining serious injuries.
Some new apartments built at the residence of the Nigerian High Commissioner in Ghana’s capital city Accra, have been demolished by bulldozers.
The apartments have been constructed to...
Ghanaian health officials on Saturday said over 10,000 persons infected with the coronavirus have now recovered.
The significant number of recoveries means the country now...
Zimbabwe's Health Minister Obadiah Moyo has been arrested over corruption allegations related to procurement of medical equipment worth $60 million.
Moyo is accused of illegally...
