SIALKOTHigh Commissioner of Nigeria in Pakistan Mr Dauda Danladi said on Thursday that PML-N Chief and prime minister designate Nawaz Sharif has great potential to steer Pakistan out of the political and energy crises, besides making her a prosperous and developed country.During informal talks in a ...

KANO Nigerian soldiers on Sunday sealed roads heading out of a key northeastern city, blocking supply routes to remote towns where Boko Haram militants have taken power as a massive offensive against the insurgents spreads across the region.The campaign against Boko Haram, which has said it wants ...

KANO, Nigeria : The purported head of Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has claimed two recent deadly attacks in the northeast in a video obtained by AFP Monday, which also depicts women and children apparently being held hostage. The video features Abubakar Shekau, declared a global terrorist by ...

KANO, Nigeria : Gunmen from a shadowy cult ambushed a group of police officers in central Nigeria, killing 23 of them and then setting fire to their bodies, the state's police chief said Thursday."A detachment of 60 police... came under attack from members of Ombatse cult in an ambush," Nassarawa ...

abuja - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and his South African counterpart Jacob Zuma will discuss ways to boost trade between Africa's two biggest economies during talks in Cape Town next week.Jonathan will leave Abuja on Monday for a two-day state visit ahead of the World Economic Forum on ...

MAIDUGURI: An attack Thursday in restive northernNigeriawhere suspected militants stormed a police station and stole nearly $60,000 from a bank killed 20 insurgents and five officers, the local police chief said. "Five policemen and 20 gunmen have been confirmed dead when some Boko Haram Terrorist ...

RAWALPINDI : Nigerian High Commissioner to Pakistan Dauda Danladi has urged Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) to organise single country Expo in Nigeria and explore investment opportunities to strengthen bilateral trade ties. He said that business community can play a key role to ...

KANO, Nigeria   Heavy fighting between Nigerian troops and suspected insurgents has killed 187 people and injured 77 others, with massive blazes that raged after the clashes leaving nearly half the town destroyed, the Red Cross said Monday. The bloodshed in the remote northeastern town of Baga ...

KARACHI - Pakistani Deputy Ambassador to Nigeria Ahmed Ali Sirohey said that Nigeria was a big market for the country’s Pharma Products.He was addressing at a reception arranged in honour of leading Nigerian Pharma Industrialists delegation led by Ahmed Ibrahim Yakasai.Chairman South Pakistan ...

ISLAMABAD - A delegation of Nigerian businessmen based in Islamabad led by Francis Onyisi, President of Nigerian Community in Pakistan visited ICCI to further promote the cause of Nigeria in Pakistan.Speaking on the occasion, afar Bakhtawari, President ICCI said that Pakistan does consider the ...

KANO, Nigeria (AFP) - Weekend attacks on three communities in volatile and ethnically divided central Nigeria have left 19 people dead and displaced some 4,500 others, a local official said on Tuesday.The attacks were believed to be reprisals in a dispute involving mainly Muslim Fulanis and the ...

LAGOS - Attackers in Nigeria including some dressed as soldiers have killed 10 members of the same family with half of the victims under the age of six, an official in central Plateau state said Friday. “The attack was in the night around 8:00 pm (1900 GMT Thursday) where a family of 10 were ...

Gunmen suspected to belong to a radical Islamist sect attacked a village in northeast Nigeria, tying up men, women and children before slitting their throats, killing at least 15 in the troubled region's latest attack, witnesses said Saturday.The assault happened early Friday morning in the village ...

LAHORE - Nigerian government has shown keen interest to expand economic ties with Pakistan and are willing to initiate Joint Ventures in Oil and Gas, Fertilizers and for the establishment of oil refinery.This was stated by Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Nigeria Major General (Retd) Mohammad ...

ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Nigeria will host trade talks among the Developing Eight in February as part of efforts to increase business within member states and Africa, Nigeria’s trade and investment minister said. “I will be hosting the trade and industry ministers from the D8 countries ...

LAGOS - Striving for a Guinness World Record in oral hygiene, officials in Lagos have called on 300,000 students to take out their toothbrushes on Dec 5 and start scrubbing simultaneously at noon. The current record was set in India in 2007, when 177,003 people gathered at 380 locations and brushed ...

KANO - Attacks claimed by Nigerian group Boko Haram targeting mobile phone towers in recent days have also left 15 people dead and buildings burnt, including two schools, officials said Friday. More than two dozen mobile phone towers for various providers have been destroyed in cities across ...

LAHORE - Brig General Abdullahi Dadan Garba, the head 15-member strong delegation of National Defence College Nigeria, Friday called for sector-specific measures to increase bilateral relations between Pakistan and Nigeria as both the countries have a huge potential but very little trade and ...

LAGOS  - Nigeria's foreign exchange reserves rose 7 percent to $37.534 billion in the three days to March 22, data on the central bank's website showed on Monday, a key aim of the bank which wants to shore up reserves to protect against shocks.The recent signing of onshore oil production ...

ABUJA - Nigeria’s government has in the last week held its first indirect peace talks with Islamist sect Boko Haram, meeting mediators to discuss a possible ceasefire, political and diplomatic sources told Reuters on Thursday.Two people close to Boko Haram have been carrying messages back and ...

JOS, Nigeria  - Christian youths killed at least 10 people in reprisal attacks after a suspected suicide bomber hit a Catholic church in the central Nigerian city of Jos on Sunday, killing three people, authorities said.“The situation is bad,” Sati Dakwat, health commissioner for ...

MAIDUGURI - Nigeria’s army killed 11 suspected Boko Haram insurgents during a gun battle at a checkpoint in the Islamist sect’s heartland of Maiduguri on Saturday, the field operations officer in the remote northeastern city said.Nigerian forces are reeling from a sharp uptick of ...

KANO (AFP) - Deadly clashes between Islamists and security forces last week have displaced an estimated 90,000 people in the northeastern Nigerian city of Damaturu, an emergency official said Wednesday. "We have at the moment an estimated 90,000 displaced people from the Damaturu violence," said ...

ABUJA (AFP) - Fear gripped Nigeria on Monday after a wave of Christmas bombings blamed on Islamists killed at least 40, including worshippers who were left begging for mercy and burning to death as they exited a church.Hundreds of residents sought to flee the violence-torn city of Damaturu on ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Standard Chartered is in discussions with regulators to offer Islamic banking services in Oman and Nigeria, now that both countries are revamping their regulatory environments to encourage Islamic finance, the bank's global head of Islamic banking on Sunday. Wasim Saifi said the ...

MAIDUGURI (Reuters) A militant group claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on the UN headquarters in Nigeria that killed 23 people, demanding the release of prisoners and an end to a security crackdown to prevent further bombings. Boko Haram was the prime suspect of Friday's car bomb on the ...

SINSHEIM (Germany) (AFP) - France opened their 2011 women's World Cup with a hard-earned 1-0 victory over Nigeria here Sunday thanks to Marie-Laure Delie's goal in a crucial Group A encounter. A near sell-out crowd of 25,475 in Sinsheim saw a number of good chances but no goals until Delie's goal ...

LAHORE - Pakistan polo team is all set to face Nigeria on Wednesday (today) in the World Cup qualifier round of the Zone D Play-offs at Malaysia. Nigerias meeting with Pakistan team, which last qualified for the World Cup Championship in 2003, will decide their qualification prospect, which looks ...

ABUJA (AFP) - Nigerian authorities filed charges Tuesday against ex-US vice president Dick Cheney and several others over a bribery scandal allegedly involving energy firm Halliburton, the prosecutor said. It includes Dick Cheney, said prosecutor Godwin Obla of the 16-count charge filed at a court ...

WASHINGTON - A dispatch in a leading American newspaper Sunday focuses on cash-starved Pakistans 'jumbo-sized cabinet composed of 61 ministers and advisers, saying, several among them marginally qualified or shadowed by graft allegations. Writing from Islamabad, correspondent Karin Brulliard of The ...