The Nigerian government, which has offered asylum to Liberian President Charles Taylor, said on Wednesday it will not negotiate over an international arrest warrant he faces for alleged war crimes.
Nigeria, the world’s eighth-largest exporter of crude oil, loses at least 300 000 barrels to thieves every day, the governor of Delta State in the oil-rich Niger Delta, James Ibori, said on Wednesday.
The deposed president of Sao Tome, Fradique de Menezes, was assured of support from two of Africa’s most influential leaders on Friday as he battled to overcome a military coup.
Nigeria’s ruling party on Friday is attempting to rectify a political crisis that broke out in the south-eastern Nigerian state of Anambra when the state’s governor was removed from office in what may have been an elaborate coup attempt.
Armed police backed by bulldozers tore down illegally built homes and shops in the Nigerian capital Abuja on Friday ahead of a visit by US President George Bush.
Nigeria was facing its second week of a crippling general strike on Sunday after union leaders rejected a government offer to scale back a fuel price hike.
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo was sworn in for a second term on Thursday despite opposition calls for the results of last month’s election to be rejected.
Chris Staals, South Africa’s last white central bank governor and Graca Machel, were among six people picked on Wednesday for Africa’s first peer-review body, charged with pressing the continent’s leaders to end wars and corruption.
President Olusegun Obasanjo promised on Tuesday that a law would soon be enacted prescribing heavy punishment for child and other human traffickers.
The shareholders of a large west African natural gas pipeline project signed a -million deal on Monday that should see it operational by 2005, the firm’s chairman said.
Nigeria’s police said on Monday they had uncovered a plot by unidentified elements to use explosives to disrupt President Olusegun Obasanjo’s May 29 swearing-in for a second term.
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo’s party secured control of parliament on Thursday, two days before a landmark presidential election, as the opposition called for ”mass action” to protest alleged vote-rigging.
Nigeria’s presidential election stood on the brink of crisis on Wednesday as the main opposition candidate rejected the results of a parliamentary poll and localised protests erupted.
US election observers warned Nigeria that next week’s presidential elections could be undermined if the shortcomings of this weekend’s parliamentary poll are repeated.
Gunmen murdered a leading opposition politician at his home in the Nigerian capital on Wednesday, dramatically raising the tension in an election campaign already marred by violence.
The Nigerian government on Wednesday announced an immediate ban on the importation of mineral water, toothpicks, spaghetti, and biscuits to protect local production of the products.
A leading Nigerian opposition politician was shot dead at his home on Wednesday by unidentified gunmen, it what is the most high-profile killing yet in a troubled election campaign, police said.
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A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was on its way to Nigeria on Thursday to investigate the disappearance of two radioactive devices.
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Scotland Yard detectives hunting the killers of a young African boy whose headless and dismembered body was found floating in the River Thames in London were due to arrive in Nigeria on Thursday.
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A Nigerian government panel on Monday confirmed allegations of -million fraud in a state-run oil firm before it was privatised two years ago.
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Thirty-one Nigerian firms were on Monday awarded licences to operate 24 marginal oilfields, in a government bid to increase local participation in oil exploration and boost the nation’s proven oil reserves.
Nigeria’s main opposition party chose a former military dictator as its presidential candidate on Wednesday, setting up a Muslim versus Christian ”clash of the generals” with President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Fighting impeachment attempts, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has admitted that he ordered 2001 military operations in which hundreds of civilians were killed, but insisted he had acted to ”save lives and property.”
Nigeria said on Wednesday it will do everything possible to avoid a war with Cameroon over their border dispute, but warned it will take action if it is ”pushed to the wall.”
African leaders have taken the first step towards setting up a mechanism to monitor each other’s progress towards good government, a key plank in a widely-praised new development strategy.
African parliamentarians are to meet in Cotonou, Benin, on Tuesday and Wednesday to consider implementation of the new Partnership for African Development (Nepad), acting president of the forum of African Parliamentarians, Guy-Amedee Ajonoun, said on Sunday.
Nigeria ratified an extradition treaty with South Africa on Wednesday, hoping it will deter Nigerians living in South Africa from committing crimes, Information Minister Jerry Gana said.
Representatives and dwellers of oil-rich Bakassi peninsula on Tuesday met President Olusegun Obasanjo, expressing support for Nigeria’s rejection of a World Court ruling ceding their territory to Cameroon.
A troika of Commonwealth leaders failed to agree how to deal with President Robert Mugabe, saving Zimbabwe from a threat of expulsion from the organisation.
A 46-year-old man, Hussaini Maidoya, has been arrested by police in northern Nigeria for amputating his wife’s right leg after suspecting her of infidelity.