The United States has frozen more than $458 million that former Nigerian leader Sani Abacha and his conspirators obtained through corruption and hid in bank accounts around the world, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday.
JOS, Nigeria: Gunmen on Wednesday killed at least nine people and set fire to dozens of houses in central Nigeria, the army and police said, in the latest violence to hit the region.
President Goodluck Jonathan has moved against certain associates of the former minister of aviation, Ms Stella Oduah, in order to sanitise the sector that is said have become an unguarded pot of honey.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan appointed an experienced former army general from the Muslim north as his defence minister on Wednesday, as he looks to combat an increasingly bloody Islamist insurgency there.
The Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prof. Viola Onwuliri, has said the ministry was closely monitoring the development in Ukraine and will evacuate Nigerians in the country if the crisis escalates.
Incensed by the rising number of deaths arising from attacks by the terrorist Boko Haram group, the Chief of Air Staff , Air Marshal Adesola Amosu, personally entered the battle zone last weekend when he flew one of the Alpha jets of the 75 Strike Group of the Nigerian Air Force to conduct air strikes against enemy positions in the North-east.
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