A teenage Nigerian transvestite and seller of love potions who lived undetected for seven years among the married women of his conservative Islamic community has been caught and now faces jail. Abubakar Hamza said this week that he disguised himself as a girl and ran away from his home in a farming village of Ajingi aged only 12.

Abubakar Muhammad Barinjimi is in the twilight of his life at 88 but, sitting in his primary school classroom, he's got plans for further education.

The Miss World beauty circus fled to Britain on Sunday while in northern Nigeria the death toll continued to mount in bloody sectarian rioting fuelled by Muslim anger at the pageant.

Nigerian officials battled to contain an outbreak of a deadly strain of bird flu on Saturday amid reports that it is spreading rapidly through poultry flocks and approaching the Niger border. Agricultural officials were preparing to quarantine and disinfect two farms where tens of thousands of birds have died on the outskirts of Kano

Nigeria's military has enforced a round-the-clock curfew in parts of the north-eastern city of Maiduguri, the home base of Boko Haram.

The US has warned of fresh attacks in Nigeria after a wave of deadly bombings claimed by Islamists Boko Haram killed 150 people in the country.

A teenage Nigerian transvestite and seller of love potions who lived undetected for seven years among the married women of his conservative Islamic community has been caught and now faces jail. Abubakar Hamza said this week that he disguised himself as a girl and ran away from his home in a farming village of Ajingi aged only 12.

Abubakar Muhammad Barinjimi is in the twilight of his life at 88 but, sitting in his primary school classroom, he's got plans for further education.