The Irish Times

Forgotten conflict: A week in a city under siege by Boko Haram

The trenches dug all around the Nigerian city of Maiduguri protect it from attack – for now

Sat Jan 29 2022 - 06:00

Irishman arrested in Nigerian bribery investigation

Energy deal under investigation was subject of one of the world’s largest lawsuits

Wed Dec 22 2021 - 01:00

Nigerian forces free more than 180 hostages after weeks in forest

Babies among those rescued in one of Nigeria’s largest liberations of kidnap victims

Fri Oct 08 2021 - 11:33

Religious order feared ‘we would all be wiped out’ by Covid-19

The Spiritans, or Holy Ghost Fathers, lost 18 priests during the pandemic

Fri Mar 05 2021 - 01:00

Irish investors paid bribe for gas deal, says Nigerian official

Alleged wedding sweetner outlined in UK court judgment as part of $10bn legal battle

Mon Sept 07 2020 - 20:27

Nigeria seeks more time to fight $9.6bn award to Irish businessmen

West African nation alleges gas supply deal signed with P&ID in 2010 was a ‘sham’

Mon Jul 13 2020 - 19:00

The $6bn judgment pitting Nigeria against Irish businessmen

London court hearing will lift the veil on shadowy world of international arbitration

Mon Jul 13 2020 - 09:56

Blocking new hotels in Dublin is economic vandalism

Councillors play to the Twitter gallery as they deprive communities of investment

Fri Sept 27 2019 - 05:33

Irish authorities and AIB drawn into $9.6bn Nigerian dispute

Nigerian prosecutors say they will seek extradition of two men

Wed Sept 25 2019 - 16:32

$9.6bn Nigerian claim shows perils for states in rows with dogged foes

Backed by hedge funds and armed with lawyers, Irish-backed firm P&ID is running an insurgent campaign for payment

Fri Aug 30 2019 - 05:14

Nigeria to appeal $9 billion award to Irish-backed company over failed gas deal

The UK court judgment gives Process and Industrial Developments the right to seek the seizure of Nigerian state assets

Tue Aug 20 2019 - 05:45

Irish-owned company to seek $9bn award against Nigerian government

Dispute arose over gas processing plant which was not built

Wed Jun 05 2019 - 04:05

Royal Dutch Shell should face investigation, says Amnesty International

Amnesty: inquiries should centre on alleged complicity in Nigerian government abuses

Tue Nov 28 2017 - 08:55

Boko Haram conflict leaves humanitarian crisis in its wake

Islamist group’s insurgency has left millions displaced in northern Nigeria

Thu Sept 14 2017 - 01:00

From the Archives: January 30th, 1970

Two weeks after the Biafran War ended 17 Irish missionaries were jailed in Nigeria for entering the former secessionist state. John Horgan explained Irish involvement in the war, from which Concern and Médecins Sans Frontières emerged

Sat Jan 30 2016 - 01:00

Malala criticises ‘weak’ effort to free girls seized by Boko Haram

Nobel Peace Prize winner says more would have been done if girls were from more privileged background

Mon Feb 09 2015 - 01:00

Satellite images show scale of Boko Haram attacks

Images provide ‘indisputable and shocking evidence’ of attacks in which thousands may have died

Thu Jan 15 2015 - 15:05

CAB claims €5.2m in frozen accounts is linked to Nigerian dictator

Bureau alleges that bonds were obtained with money laundered to Ireland

Mon Nov 10 2014 - 16:44

Suicide bomber kills at least 48 in Nigeria school attack

Explosion leaves up to 79 injured in restive town of Potiskum in country’s northeast

Mon Nov 10 2014 - 13:29

Shell, Nigeria blamed for oil pollution clean-up failure

Environmental and human rights organisations criticise lack of action in Niger Nelta

Mon Aug 04 2014 - 17:05

Boko Haram continues to evade US efforts to choke its funding

Islamic militant group is richer than ever, more violent and its abductions grow

Tue Jul 01 2014 - 06:58

Nigerian government offers talks to Boko Haram to free girls

Canada sends special forces to help search effort

Wed May 14 2014 - 17:02

Nigeria ‘open’ to Boko Haram negotiation over girls

US deploys surveillance aircraft to find more than 200 abducted schoolgirls

Tue May 13 2014 - 18:12

Protest outside Nigerian embassy in Dublin over abductions

Protestors call for release of 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamic militants Boko Haram

Thu May 08 2014 - 00:01

Nigerian Islamist group kidnaps eight more girls

200 girls abducted by Boko Haram from a secondary school on April 14th

Tue May 06 2014 - 14:16

Vigilantes push Boko Haram from their Nigerian base

Local knowledge of informer group a ‘game-changer’ in fight against insurgents

Thu Oct 24 2013 - 01:03

Gogo in a hurry to beat bogus drugs

Ashifi Gogo has invented a text message verification process to thwart the distributors of counterfeit drugs in developing states

Mon Jul 01 2013 - 01:00

Literary community bereft after ‘father of African literature’ dies

Chinua Achebe best known for breakthrough novel ‘Things fall Apart’

Mon Mar 25 2013 - 06:38