AGAIN, MILITANTS ATTACK CHEVRON OIL FACILITY IN NIGER DELTA

On Friday, a new blast occurred at a Chevron oil well at the Marakaba pipeline in Warri, Delta state, a security source said.

This is the second blast at the facility of the U.S. oil major within a week, feeding concern over a revived militant campaign in the area.

TWO YEARS AFTER THEIR ABDUCTION, NEW VIDEO OF CHIBOK GIRLS SURFACES

On the night of 14–15 April 2014, 276 female students were kidnapped from the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria.

A video released by Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram appears to show some of the schoolgirls kidnapped two years ago from the town of Chibok.

The video, apparently filmed in December, was sent to the Nigerian government and shows 15 girls in black robes identifying themselves as pupils abducted from the school.

REUTERS SAYS VP OSINBAJO IS BEING 'SIDELINED'

An article published on the website of Reuters, on Thursday, February 25.
 
Almost a year after winning an election on promises to fix Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari’s grand vision of reform is fading, with power centralized in his increasingly remote presidency and the bureaucracy in disarray.

After axing almost 50 top civil servants and 40 ambassadors and shaking up ministries in a bid to excise endemic graft, the 73-year-old former military ruler has even started cancelling some weekly cabinet meetings.

SHOCKING REVELATION: SOMALIA PRESIDENT SAYS BOKO HARAM TRAINS IN SOMALIA

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud of Somalia spoke at a security conference in Munich, Germany, on Sunday, February 14. Photo: Reuters