Nigeria can account for $49.8 billion in oil revenue suspected to have been withheld by the state-owned oil company , Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said.
Abuja, Dec 19: At least 22 people were burnt to death in Nigeria Wednesday when the vehicle they were travelling in crashed and caught fire in Takai town of northwestern Kano state, Xinhua reported.
Nigeria's faction-ridden ruling party lost its majority in the House of Representatives as 37 legislators defected to a new opposition coalition Wednesday, in a major blow to President Goodluck Jonathan before 2015 elections.
"It brings me no joy to have to write this but since you started this trend of open letters I thought I would follow suit since you don't listen to anyone anyway.
Nineteen suspected criminals including a pastor and wife of one Mr Isonguyo Victor, a Deputy Manager at the Nigeria Petroleum Development Company, who was allegedly murdered penultimate Friday by his wife and her Pastor lover, were paraded yesterday in Benin City by the Edo State Police Command.
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, was visibly enraged yesterday as he attributed the poor level of infrastructural development in the country to the Ministry of Finance and the Budget Office of the Federation, both of which he accused of depriving critical projects of necessary funding.
Reports of Christians attacked in central and northern Nigeria draw more attention, but in more southerly Benue state Islamic extremists killed at least 205 Christians in the last six months alone, sources said.
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