Journalists in Nigeria, already the target of threats and bribes, face a new danger after a radical Islamist sect bombed the offices of a major newspaper and vowed to “hit the media hard” in Africa’s most populous nation.

Nigeria’s president said the nation’s fuel prices will immediately drop amid a paralysing nationwide strike.

A NATIONWIDE strike in Nigeria over spiralling fuel prices will continue, two major unions said yesterday after negotiations with the government failed.

Muslim extremists may have planted a bomb which struck an army barracks in Nigeria’s capital, the country’s president said today, highlighting the dangers and confusion still gripping a nation beset by violence in recent weeks.

A Nigerian military attack using heavily armed soldiers and aerial bombing runs has killed as many as 150 people in the oil-rich southern delta, a human rights activist said today.