Witnesses say two separate explosions rocked the central Nigerian city of Kaduna on Tuesday, including one near a military base.

Police say one blast occurred near a bridge and the other took place...

Bombs exploded at two major military bases on the outskirts of a central Nigerian city at the heart of ethnic and religious unrest in Africa's most populous nation, injuring an unknown number of...

ABU DHABI - Etihad Airways on Monday announced the launch of flights to Lagos, the...

KANO, Nigeria, Feb 8, 2012 (IPS) - "I can no longer stay here in Kano as it rains bombs. The gun battles rattle us... Kano is no longer safe," said pregnant Funke Nweke of her decision to...

Agip pipeline in southern Bayelsa state, but the military said the statement was a fraud. "People who were the leadership of MEND are now responsible members of the society, having accepted the...

oil fields to companies that may be acting as fronts for government officials, stifling development in both countries, according to anti-corruption ...

suicide bomber disguised in military uniform was killed on Tuesday when his car bomb exploded under fire from soldiers outside a military base in...

NAIROBI, Feb 8 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Wednesday. - - - -...

NEW DELHI Feb 8 (Reuters) - Bharti Airtel's stake in its Nigerian unit is "completely safe" and the world's fifth-biggest mobile phone carrier by subscribers has appealed ...

BY CLIFFORD NDUJIHE & DAPO AKINREFON LAGOS -- EMINENT Nigerians, yesterday, rose from their two-day dialogue in Lagos, insisting that there is no going back on national conference if the country...

By VINCENT UJUMADU AWKA-- THE Anambra State Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Awka yesterday ruled that the police forensic expert brought by the former Minister of Information and...

LAGOS (AFP) A US expatriate worker who was kidnapped by Nigerian gunmen in the oil-rich Niger Delta region on January 20 has been released, his embassy and police said Friday. "I can confirm...

A blast rocked an area near a military barracks in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna on Tuesday but the cause of the explosion and number of casualties were not immediately clear, an official...

Jeremie Drieu, Journalist Ahmad Salkida, Journalist (IPI/IFEX) - VIENNA, 7 Feb. 2011 - Two journalists working for a French television station were detained in the Nigerian city of Jos by members...

By SaharaReporters, New York The army authorities at the 1st Division Nigerian Army, Kaduna, says that the Boko Haram suicide bombers that attacked the Nigerian Army base today waged the attack with...

By CPJ Blog New York, February 7, 2012--Nigerian authorities have locked reporters based at the country's biggest airport out of their press center and withheld their equipment since Saturday,...

NEW YORK, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Brent oil rose slightly on Tuesday and U.S. crude jumped more than 1.5 percent, bolstered by an unplanned outage at a Canadian oil sands plant and optimism about an...

KAMPALA Feb 7 (Reuters) - A bill that would make the death sentence mandatory for gays who are "repeat offenders" was reintroduced in Uganda's parliament on Tuesday, a move likely to...

EXPLOSIONS have rocked an army barracks, a bridge and an air base in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna, a set of co-ordinated attacks claimed by the Islamist group Boko...

By GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE BENIN--AGAINST the backdrop of continued call by some prominent Nigerians for the convocation of a Sovereign National Conference, SNC, to address the deluge of problems...

By CHIDI NKWOPARA OWERRI--The remains of 36-year-old Uche Alaribe, who was recently kidnapped and murdered by kidnappers who collected N3 million from the family, have been interred in his country...

By Evelyn Usman LAGOS -- The Police in Lagos, yesterday, said it was too early to say whether killers of a female banker on Sunday, in Ajao Estate, Lagos, were hired assassins, saying ongoing...

By DAUD OLATUNJI ABEOKUTA--The Chairman, Senate Committee on Privatisation and Commercialisation, Gbenga Obadara has called for resignation of the Minister for Petroleum, Mrs. Diezani...

By Adekunle Adekoya & Emmanuel Elebeke Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigeria Communication Commission, NCC. Dr. Eugene Juwah has said that broadband is the next phase of telecommunication...

By Rotimi Fasan IN the last two weeks or thereabout I have been compelled to address a matter that I'm sure columnists and others who frequently write have to face: the question of what subject...

By TONY EDIKE ENUGU--THE Federal Government is considering the request by some state governments to refund N350 billion spent on rehabilitating dilapidated federal roads in their areas. Minister of...

By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP candidate for this Saturday's governorship election in Bayelsa State Barrister Serikae Dickson was unveiled to the...

By GBENGA ARIYIBI ADO EKITI--The Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Mr. Adewale Omirin, has assured that the House was not contemplating the suspension of the two Peoples Democratic...

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru CALABAR--Labour Party in Cross River State has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to introduce electronic voting system through the use of Direct...

By Mitaire Ikpen ABUJA--Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, has bemoaned the prevalence of torture and unlawful detention beyond the stipulated 24 hours by the Nigeria Police...

By Emeka Aginam The Nigerian Computer Society, (NCS) has among other things advocated the passage of cyber security legislation to provide legal backing and confidence to fighting cyber crime. ...

ABUJA- Bureau for Public Service Reforms, BPSR, was, Tuesday, lampooned over bogus claims in the 2012 budget proposal. House of Representatives Committee on Reform of Government Institutions accused...

By TONY NYONG UYO--The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal of Akwa Ibom State, sitting in Uyo, yesterday, insisted on hearing the petition brought before it by Senator John James Akpan Udoedehe...

By GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE BENIN--EDO State Governor, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, has expressed dismay over the increasing cases of infant mortality in the state and promised to ensure that modern facilities...

Some 400 children have been killed and many more are at risk after the world's worst lead poisoning epidemic in northern Nigeria. The Human Rights Watch has confirmed that despite warnings two...

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People gather around a minibus struck in an apparent explosion as it sits near a highway overpass in Kaduna, Nigeria, on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. Two explosions struck Tuesday near army and air force...

LAGOS, Nigeria -; Bomb blasts struck Tuesday near army and air force bases on the outskirts of the central Nigerian city at the heart of riots last year that killed hundreds, officials said. The...

UN leader Ban Ki-moon is "appalled" by the wave of bomb attacks in Nigeria and called for transparent investigations into the scores of deaths, his spokesman said.0 Ban "condemns in...

Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan is treating the country's corruption- infested and notoriously inefficient oil industry as a voodoo surgeon would a gangrened leg: sprinkling herbs instead of...

LAGOS, Nigeria -- An international watchdog said Tuesday it will cost about $4 million to clean up toxic lead and secure mines in northern Nigeria, where activists say "the worst outbreak of...

Enoh Meyomesse, Writer (WiPC/IFEX) - 6 February 2012 - The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International is relieved by reports that the coup charges against the writer and political...

Chika Odunze t is sad to see Nigeria going up in flames. Very disheartening to see how religion is destroying Nigeria. My question is, can one live a moral life with religion? If yes, why the ongoing...

By By Shagari Sumner Sambo The 1 Division Army headquarters, Kaduna is the home of the former West Africa Frontier Force, WAFF set up by the British to help mobilize Nigerians and other West Africans...

northern Nigeria need immediate medical treatment and dozens of villages remain contaminated two years into the worst lead poisoning epidemic in modern history," the US-based group said in a...

Nigeria -- Two explosions struck Tuesday near army and air force bases on the outskirts of the central Nigerian city at the heart of riots last year that killed hundreds, officials said. The...

The explosion in the city of Kaduna overnight caused an unknown number of injuries, said Yushau Shuaib, a spokesman for Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency.Mr Shuaib said officials...