A third straight night of gunbattles between ethnic factions and security forces left at least 10 people dead in the Nigerian oil city of Warrim which has been at the centre of a conflict between the Itsekiri ethnic group and the neighbouring Ijaws, who are vying for supremacy in the oil-rich swamps west of the city.
The fondness of many Nigerians for throwing money around has created a thriving but illegal market for mint-fresh naira notes for use in gifts and at parties.
The last stage of US President George Bush’s first tour of Africa will be a politically risky foray into the troubled world of Africa’s number one oil producer: Nigeria.
Police fired warning shots and tear gas on Monday to break up crowds of banner waving workers and armed thugs as a paralysing general strike over fuel prices took hold across oil-rich Nigeria.
An upcoming African-American summit aims to bring black Americans and Africans together in building an oil industry that will one day replace the Mideast’s, former US Ambassador Andrew Young said on Wednesday.
A long stretch of vehicles is caught in a traffic jam on the busy Murtala Muhammed Way in Lagos, where desperate drivers struggle to wriggle out of the chaos to get home.
A prime suspect in the 2001 murder of Nigerian former justice minister Bola Ige has been sworn in as a senator, witnesses said on Wednesday.
The death of Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, the elder brother of Nigeria’s Afrobeat king Fela, will likely have repercussions throughout the country’s health care system, health professionals said on Tuesday.
Three Nigerians sentenced to be stoned to death for having sex outside marriage will appeal before Islamic courts this week, turning the spotlight back on a bitter battle over Sharia law.
Activities leading to President Obasanjo’s inauguration for a second term in office got underway in Nigeria on Wednesday, amid tight security after the court of appeal rejected opposition demands to stop the swearing-in.
Some 12 000 people have fled fighting in the southern Nigerian oil city of Warri, the Nigerian Red Cross said on Thursday as it launched a relief operation.
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo asked the national electoral agency on Thursday to investigate reports by Commonwealth observers that his re-election was marred by ballot-rigging.
Ships of the Nigerian navy were steaming towards four offshore oil rigs to confront striking workers who have held dozens of British and American colleagues hostage in a two-week stand-off.
Nigeria’s recent landmark polls were ”far better” than the elections that brought US President George Bush to power, the country’s former attorney general said on Sunday.
Nigeria’s main opposition party has rejected the re-election of President Olusegun Obasanjo, alleging that the ballot was rigged and saying that any new government would be illegitimate.
Early results showed President Olusegun Obasanjo sweeping to victory in Nigeria’s presidential election last night, but opponents denounced the ballot as rigged and warned they would reject the results.
Nigerians waited nervously on Sunday for the results of landmark presidential and state governorship elections which observers said were marred by violence and ballot rigging.
The ethnic and religious cauldron that is Nigeria goes to the polls today to elect a president, in what is being billed as a crucial test for democracy in Africa.
President Olusegun Obasanjo’s ruling party took a lead in legislative elections, according to partial returns, boosting his hopes for re-election in presidential balloting later this week.
Nigerian police have arrested a deputy state governor for allegedly ordering the destruction of ballot boxes during the weekend’s parliamentary elections.
When Nigeria, proud holder of the title of the most populous nation in Africa, goes to the polls this weekend it will be watched keenly from across a troubled continent, analysts say.
Nigeria’s President Olusegun Obasanjo, a gruff, combative ex-general, has just come out of his toughest year in politics but as polling day looms he is confident of re-election.
Nigeria will this week begin its first elections since its return to civilian rule, but, barring some kind of last minute political upheaval, its next president will be a former general.
An uneasy calm descended on the Niger Delta on Wednesday after almost two weeks of violent unrest crippled the region’s oil industry, local leaders, residents and security forces said.
Local Nigerian leaders were on Tuesday seeking a political end to a bloody uprising in the Niger Delta which has crippled the region’s oil industry and cut crude exports by more than a third.
Two dozen long-legged beauties strode out at the weekend to put a smile back on the face of Nigeria’s pageant scene, four months after bloody violence wrecked their country’s bid to stage the Miss World.
Oil giant Shell said on Sunday it was evacuating some non-essential staff from Nigeria’s volatile Niger Delta, where five people were killed in clashes between troops and ethnic militants.
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Controversy erupted on Thursday over an alleged oil spill in Nigeria’s troubled Ogoniland in the Niger Delta region, with Anglo-Dutch group Shell again at the centre of the row.