Tag: Nigerian

Foreigner involved in looting citizen held in Abbottabad

ABBOTTABAD: The Cyber Crime Wing of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Monday arrested a foreigner involved in looting millions of rupees from a...

Nigerian arrested for Rs35m fraud in capital

ISLAMABAD: A Nigerian citizen, Lamido Ogbeh, was arrested Sunday by Kohsar police for allegedly defrauding a Pakistani man of Rs35 million in Islamabad. The police arrested the...

Nigerian troops thwart Boko Haram attack on Maiduguri

KANO: Boko Haram militants made a failed Christmas Day attempt to attack Nigeria’s major northeast city of Maiduguri as they were pushed out by Nigerian...

Boko Haram video claims to show missing Nigerian school girls

Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has published a video apparently showing recent footage of dozens of school girls kidnapped two years ago, and saying...

Six Nigerians deported from BBIA

  At least six Nigerian citizens were deported to Nigeria from Benazir Bhutto International Airport (BBIA) on Saturday after completing their punishment. The Nigerian nationals involved...

Bomb rips through Nigerian marketplace killing 31

A bomb exploded in the main market in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Yola killing 31 people, Nigeria’s disaster response agency said on Friday, in...

FIA arrests Nigerian fraudulent

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested a foreigner involved in looting citizens through internet here on Sunday. Deputy Director FIA said that cyber wing of...

Nigerian Air Chief visits Air Headquarters

The Nigerian Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Alex Sabundu Badeh visited Air Headquarters Islamabad on Monday. He is visiting Pakistan on the...

Prominent ex-general killed by Nigerian gunmen

A former General in the Nigerian Army, who played a major role in the civil war of the 1960s, was shot dead by gunmen...

Nigerian Drug peddler booked under ‘97 Act’

Pakistan Customs Drug Enforcement Cell – DEC, Karachi Airport Unit seized 2300 grams of heroin from the possession of a departing Nigerian lady. Per...

Residents flee Nigerian city after attacks kill 31

Hundreds of residents of a northeastern Nigerian city were fleeing Sunday after three days of Islamist attacks that left at least 31 dead and...

Nigerian troops swarm after 40 killed in student massacre

Nigerian soldiers moved house to house on Wednesday in an urgent bid to hunt down attackers responsible for the massacre of 40 people who...

Cocaine-stuffed roasted chicken uncovered by Nigerian officials

The roasted chickens had an unusual stuffing – $150,000 worth of cocaine, according to Nigerian police. A Nigerian mechanic who struggled in Brazil for...

Gunmen kill 19 in Nigerian church

Gunmen have opened fire on an evangelical church during a service in central Nigeria, killing the pastor and at least 18 worshippers while injuring...

Gunmen kill 19 people in attack on Nigerian church

Gunmen have opened fire on an evangelical church during a service in central Nigeria, killing at least 19 people in the latest such...

Prison raid frees 40 inmates in restive Nigerian city

Attackers with guns and explosives raided a jail in a restive Nigerian city on Sunday, leaving four prison guards dead and freeing 40 inmates,...

At least 62 bodies recovered from Nigerian plane crash site

Rescue workers have so far pulled at least 62 bodies from the wreckage of a plane that crashed in Nigeria’s largest city of Lagos,...