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Nigeria's main militant group said Sunday it destroyed two oil pipelines in the southern Niger Delta, the latest attack amid the worst outbreak of violence to hit the region in months.
Amnesty International said Thursday that police battling criminals and militants in Nigeria's restive southern oil region are using increasingly violent means, including torture and illegal killings.
A British hostage who was captured more than seven months ago by Nigeria's main militant group was freed on Sunday, a senior military official said.
The U.S. embassy in Nigeria said Sunday it had received reports of a potential attack against diplomatic missions in the southern city of Lagos.
The head of a new Nigerian ministry charged with calming the restive petroleum region of Africa's biggest crude producer said Friday that the global economic meltdown may paradoxically be contributing to peace efforts.
Lawyers involved in Nigeria's multibillion-dollar lawsuits against Pfizer over a 1996 drug study said Friday they have agreed on the outlines of a settlement.
The tiny, sweltering shop where Barnabus Ossai sells boxes of imported A4-sized printer paper is a world away from the trading floors and banking offices where the global economic crisis was born.
Authorities have arrested 12 people in a tainted teething formula case in Nigeria that killed 84 children after they swallowed a syrup laced with a chemical normally found in antifreeze, health officials said Wednesday.
Assailants attacked a natural gas production plant in southern Nigeria on Saturday, but the military said its forces repelled the onslaught and killed three gunmen.
Gunmen attacked a ship carrying diesel fuel across Nigeria's restive southern region Wednesday, kidnapping a foreign sailor and inflicting heavy damage on the vessel, officials said.
The Supreme Court upheld Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua's 2007 election win Friday, dealing a blow to political opponents who sought to unseat him.
Pirates attacked an oil-services vessel before dawn Thursday off the coast of Nigeria and kidnapped two foreign workers, a private security official said.
Nigerian food and drug regulators on Tuesday updated the death toll to 34 in an outbreak of fatalities among infants given a locally-made teething formula tainted with a toxic thickening agent.
The Emir of Kano strolls regally along the red carpet with a silver-tipped staff and a jeweled turban that looks like a disco ball, as commoners bow and scrape in his wake.
Nigerian security agents have released three reporters arrested over an erroneous report claiming the president would step down on health grounds.
Nigeria's main militant group declared a ceasefire in the southern oil region on Sunday, ending the worst spate of militant attacks in years to hit Africa's oil giant.
Nigeria's main militant group said Thursday that its fighters bombed another oil pipeline in the restive southern oil region.
Nigeria's president called Thursday for help finding a way to fingerprint crude oil stocks in order to combat the theft and lucrative overseas sale of unrefined petroleum, aiming at stopping the flow of "blood oil" from Africa's biggest producers.
Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua returned to the West African country Saturday after more than two weeks in Saudi Arabia, where he reportedly spent a lengthy stint in a private hospital, officials said.
The performers pounded on animal-skin drums, the singer howled praise for Barack Obama, and the audience of fist-bumping supporters of the U.S. presidential candidate joined in the chorus: "We can do it! Yes we can!"
Police questioned the head of the Nigerian Stock Exchange on Thursday in connection with a glitzy fundraiser meant to drum up African support for U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Police on Friday arrested the head of a federal agency charged with developing Nigeria's impoverished southern oil region after allegations the man spent millions of dollars on a witch doctor in hopes vanquishing a rival.
Two French oil workers were kidnapped Sunday in Nigeria's southern oil region, French officials said.
Three decades after pumping its last drop, the first oil well in Nigeria is marked by a decrepit signboard bearing what would seem an uncontroversial statement:
Nigeria's main militant group declared a unilateral cease-fire Sunday, saying elders in the restive southern region had asked the fighters to allow peace efforts to go ahead.
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