Nigeria

ABUJA, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Nigeria's financial crimes agency recovered at least $750 million in local and foreign currency linked to corruption and fraud last year, the minister of information said on Thursday.

Africa's biggest economy and energy producer, Nigeria has struggled for decades with endemic corruption among the political elite, who many Nigerians blame for widespread poverty in the country.

ABUJA, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- Eight people were killed in a car-truck collision in Nigeria's northeastern state of Bauchi on Saturday, road police said on Sunday.

Yusuf Abdullahi, a commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps in Bauchi, told reporters at a press briefing in Bauchi city, the state capital, that all eight occupants of the car, including its driver, died on the spot late Saturday, near the Goltukuruwa village along the Dass-Bauchi road.

Only the truck driver escaped unscathed following the accident, Abdullahi said.

ABUJA, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- A total of 80 deaths have been reported across Nigeria following the spread of Lassa fever in the most populous African country so far this year, the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) has said.

A total of 434 confirmed cases of Lassa fever have been reported from 17 states and and the federal capital territory in the country between January and December 8, of which 80 deaths were recorded, said a NCDC statement reaching Xinhua on Thursday.

LAGOS, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Sixteen people were killed when a speeding bus ran into a truck on a highway in Nigeria's northeast Bauchi state on Sunday, police said on Monday.

The collision happened in Bambal village along the Kano-Jama'are highway at about 7:00 p.m. local time on Sunday, Yusuf Abdullahi, commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps in Bauchi, said in a statement.

All 16 passengers on board the bus lost their lives in the crash, Abdullahi said.

ABUJA, Nov 29 (NNN-NAN) — Gunmen, suspected to be pirates, in the early hours of Sunday, attacked two oil installations, killing three and abducting seven oil workers in Bayelsa State, Nigeria’s South-south.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that the pirates ambushed their unsuspecting victims in Okoroma and Ogbokiri-Akassa communities of Nembe and Brass local government areas of Bayelsa.

YENAGOA, Nigeria, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Gunmen have killed four men who were involved in the maintenance on a pipeline owned by the Nigerian subsidiary of Italian oil giant Eni, a local security spokesman told Reuters.

The men, two workers, a driver and a security operative, died at a facility in Nembe, Bayelsa state, which feeds oil and gas to the Brass export terminal, Solomon Ogbere, a spokesman for the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, said.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian judicial panel says that army soldiers “shot, injured and killed” peaceful protesters demonstrating against police brutality at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos in Oct. 2020. The report calls the shootings “a massacre.”

Police also “shot at, assaulted and battered unarmed protesters, which led to injuries and deaths,” the panel found.

ABUJA, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- Nigerian troops have killed several militants of the Islamic State West Africa Province(ISWAP) in an encounter with the extremist group in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno on Saturday, the army said on Sunday.

A senior officer of the army and three soldiers were also killed in the Saturday gunfight in the Askira Uba local government area of Borno, said Onyema Nwachukwu, a spokesman for the army, in a statement reaching Xinhua on Sunday.

ABUJA, Nov 12 (NNN-NAN) – The Nigerian government said yesterday that, over 3,000 inmates are yet to be recaptured, following recent jailbreaks in the country.

A total of 4,860 inmates had escaped during attacks on the country’s custodial centres since last year, and only 984 of them have been rearrested so far, with 3,876 inmates still at large, Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola told reporters here.

ABUJA, Nov 4 (NNN-Xinhua) — Armed bandits had been killed in two airstrikes carried out by the military in northwest Nigeria’s Kaduna State, an official said.

Samuel Aruwan, the commissioner for the internal security and home affairs in the Kaduna state, said in a statement that the troops launched airstrikes on some camps of the bandits earlier in the day, killing “an unspecified number of bandits.”

The locations were identified as bandit hideouts after thorough checks and analysis of various intelligence reports, Aruwan said.