The Senate yesterday issued an ultimatum to the United States of America to de-list Nigeria from its list of countries that are of special “interest” in terrorism matters or face possible counter action when the legislature resumes next week. Briefing newsmen on the listing of Nigeria as one of 14 countries from where travelers to [...]

Tough times await Nigerian travellers to the United States as the US Transportation Security Administration has listed Nigeria and nine other countries as ‘security risk states.’ The other countries similarly categorised are Yemen, Afghanistan, Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Somalia. A statement on Sunday night by the TSA, the agency responsible for [...]

Fresh facts emerging on the alleged attempt by 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to blow up a passenger plane in the United States on Christmas day showed that the attempt would have been averted if the Yemeni government had not frustrated the attempts by the suspect’s father, Alhaji Umar Mutallab to visit the country in search [...]

The blame game that has characterized United States’ investigations into the alleged attempt by a Nigerian to explode a bomb on a US-bound passenger plane has moved to Africa. In the wake of the event, American security agencies have been trading blame, with each agency claiming that the other could have thwarted the attack if [...]

TO unravel the mystery and puzzle called Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian who tried to blow up a US plane, the father, Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, was yesterday quizzed by American security operatives, the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, agents in Abuja. This is coming just as Umar Farouk’s [...]

Yemeni authority said, yesterday, that the Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a US-bound passenger jet was living there until a few weeks ago, while President Obama of United States of America has ordered full investigation into the incident. Also yesterday, the first photos emerged of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab explosive-laden underpants. Abdulmutallab, who allegedly [...]

Our family, like the rest of the world, was woken up in the early hours of Saturday, 26th December, 2009 to the news of an attempt to blow up a plane by a young Nigerian man, who was later identified as Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab. Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab is the son of Alhaji (Dr.) Umaru AbdulMutallab, [...]