Personnel records of members of Nigeria’s top spy agency – including home addresses and names of family members – have been leaked onto the internet.
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/ 15 January 2012
Nigeria’s labour unions and government have failed to end a paralysing strike over high petrol costs, potentially sparking an oil production shutdown.
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/ 9 February 2011
The chairperson of West Africa’s regional bloc on Tuesday criticised SA for sending a warship to the region amid Côte d’Ivoire’s political crisis.
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/ 10 January 2011
The expansion by Bharti Airtel into Africa underscores the rise of India on the continent, at a time when the focus on investment has been on China.
Muslim extremists may have planted the bomb that exploded at an army barracks in Nigeria’s capital, the country’s president said on Saturday.
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/ 20 September 2009
One of the summer’s biggest blockbusters is not welcome in Nigeria because of its portrayal of Nigerians as gangsters and cannibals.
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/ 16 September 2008
Police in northern Nigeria have arrested a Muslim preacher who claims 86 wives and 107 children.
Three former state governors in Nigeria were charged in court on Friday with money laundering and stealing public funds. Prosecutors working for the Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have pledged to bring to trial former governors accused of corruption who enjoyed constitutional immunity while in office.
Nigeria’s President Umaru Yar’Adua declared about -million in personal assets on Thursday, saying public financial disclosures should be standard practice as his country battles to curb official corruption. Yar’Adua took power on May 29 with a promise to fight graft in one of the world’s most corrupt nations.
The runner-up in Nigeria’s presidential elections convened a meeting with other opposition politicians on Wednesday, seeking a unified response to the weekend vote deemed not credible by international observers. The opposition has already rejected the outcome as rigged in favour of the ruling People’s Democratic Party.