The World Health Organisation has declared Nigeria Ebola-free after the country managed to contain cases of the deadly virus.
Police have rescued three sailors taken from a cargo ship off the coast of Equatorial Guinea – a rare success story in Nigeria’s fight against piracy.
Two bomb blasts targeted the offices of Nigerian newspaper <i>This Day</i>, in the Abuja and Kaduna, killing at least three people.
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/ 13 January 2012
Nigeria’s oil workers have continued their strike against the shelving of its fuel subsidies after talks with trade unions broke down.
Nigeria is braced for mass protests after fuel prices more than doubled at the weekend, amid stark Boko Haram threats against Christians in the north.
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/ 25 December 2011
Boko Haram says it planted bombs that exploded on Christmas Day at churches in Nigeria, one of which killed at least 27 people just outside Abuja.
Nigerian authorities say the man behind the attack on UN headquarters in Abuja last week is the al-Qaeda-linked Boko Haram sect’s Mamman Nur.
At least 18 people were killed by a car bomb that ripped through the United Nations’ building in
the Nigerian capital Abuja on Friday.
Nigeria postponed parliamentary and presidential elections by one week on Sunday after failing to get logistics prepared in time.
As African presidents met in Côte d’Ivoire to end the crisis, President Jacob Zuma was mobbed by angry youths to highlight their problems.