At least 18 people were killed by a car bomb that ripped through the United Nations’ building in
the Nigerian capital Abuja on Friday.
At least 18 people have been found dead after a large explosion struck a United Nations building in Nigeria’s capital of Abuja.
The landscape of banana trees and a pineapple farm where some Ogoni live looks bleak, stained with oil, in air filled with dark smoke.
The kidnapped father of Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel was freed after detectives traced him to a city in north Nigeria and arrested his abductors.
With the help of an entrepreneurial expat in London and YouTube’s partner programme, cheaply made movies from Nigeria have successfully gone global.
Nigeria has launched two satellites into orbit with the aim of using them for a range of tasks, including disaster monitoring and security.
A disjointed fight is being mounted against piracy off Nigeria’s coast as insurers say the threat has reached levels that rival lawless Somalia.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has pledged cooperation to fight "terrorism" during talks with Niger’s leader.
Nigeria’s old oil assets are in certain cases declining by between 10% to 12% per year and new investment will be needed to push the industry forward.
Nigerian security forces killed at least 23 people in the city of Maiduguri in retaliation for a bomb attack blamed on a radical Islamic sect.
A public university says it is closing indefinitely after receiving bomb threats from a radical Muslim sect in Nigeria’s restive northeast.
Safa has found a new opponent for Bafana Bafana after Nigeria’s controversial withdrawal from August’s friendly match.
Nigeria’s long-delayed law to overhaul of its oil sector will require further review before it is passed, says Diezani Alison-Madueke.
In a dusty Nigerian park, youth play the ancient game of Eton fives.
At least 25 people were killed on Sunday when suspected Islamists threw a bomb and fired on a beer garden in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri.
The radical Muslim sect has shot police officials and clerics from atop motorcycles, torched churches and even freed hundreds of prisoners.
Almost R10-billion in losses later, no one has been held accountable for the company’s haemorrhaging Nigerian investment.
Cheaper options key to greater penetration.
The Nigeria Football Federation has announced it agreed a rematch with Argentina in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on September 6.
Fifa and Nigeria’s football federation are investigating Argentina’s loss in Nigeria after betting patterns suggests it was targeted by match fixers.
Nigerian cops are investigating a series of blasts that followed President Goodluck Jonathan’s inauguration, including bombs that ri
A blast rocked a drinking spot near an army barracks in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing a dozen people after President Goodluck was sworn in.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in on Sunday following an election seen as the fairest in two decades.
Five people had been banned for life by the Nigeria Football Federation for their attempt to form a rival organisation.
A Nigerian firm backed by Helios Investment Partners and South Africa’s Shanduka Group has said it is suing Telkom for at least $251-million.
Africa is set to be the world’s next investment destination thanks to reforms sweeping the continent, says ex-Nigerian leader Olusegun Obasanjo.
Attackers have killed at least 16 people and set fire to more than a dozen houses in a town in northern Nigeria.
MTN added more than 5,7-million users in the first quarter boosted by strong growth in key markets of Nigeria and Iran.
Chinese investment in Africa is the single most important development of the previous decade for the continent.
The Rod of Asclepius is mistaken as a symbol of snake worshipping in a high quality and nearly free clinic in Kenya’s largest slum of Kibera.
Fresh bomb blasts jolted Nigeria on Tuesday as the country went to the polls for state governors’ elections.
Bomb blasts have killed at least three people in north-east Nigeria, police said on Monday, in the latest unrest to hit Africa’s most populous nation.