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/ 10 November 2010
Nigeria marked 15 years since the execution of activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and his campaign against the oil industry drew the world’s attention to abuses.
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/ 8 November 2010
Five workers were kidnapped and two others injured on Monday at an oil rig just off the coast of Nigeria’s troubled southern delta.
For <b>Robin Denselow</b>, walking into the rehearsals of <i>Fela!</i>, it was impossible to stop thinking about the last time he met Fela Kuti.
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/ 18 October 2010
A diary entry by suspected Nigerian bombing conspirator Henry Okah talked about staging "a fight to the finish", a court heard on Monday.
Officials, players and fans reacted on Monday with disbelief and anger following the country’s suspension by Fifa.
Authorities arrested the chairperson of a former military dictator’s presidential campaign on Monday in connection with a set of dual car bombings.
Nigerian militant leader Henry Okah appeared in a Johannesburg court on Monday after he was arrested at the weekend by South African authorities.
Nigerian police said on Sunday car bombers had intended to "commit mass murder" and distributed photos and other details of the two suspects.
It’s half a century since Nigeria gained independence. <b>Adekeye Adebajo</b> looks back over the nation’s tortured history.
SA authorities have arrested an ex-leader of a militant group that claimed responsibility for a dual car bombing that killed 12 people in Lagos.
Government accused of failing to avert independence day bombing, despite security warning from British intelligence.
Nigerian authorities hunted oil militants on Saturday who claimed responsibility for two car bombs that killed at least 12 people.
Car bombings near the area where Nigeria celebrated 50 years of independence signalled a return to violence by the country’s militant group.
Car bomb explosions killed eight people and injured three near a parade in Nigeria’s capital on Friday marking the 50th anniversary of independence.
Nigeria celebrates 50 years of independence on Friday, but he calls it a "sad birthday" for the ex-British colony, where poverty remains widespread.
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/ 29 September 2010
Thousands of people from more than 30 flooded villages in northwestern Nigeria faced shortages of food and shelter on Wednesday.
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/ 29 September 2010
It only became worse for Joseph Udoh after his home caught fire — and his struggles illustrate the stress many Nigerians live through 50 years after independence, despite the country’s oil wealth.
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/ 25 September 2010
Nigerian authorities opened the gates at two dams in the rain-soaked north, sending a flood into a neighbouring state that has displaced millions.
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/ 19 September 2010
Nigeria’s Goodluck Jonathan, who has declared he would run for president, is a fedora-wearing zoologist who has had an unlikely rise to power.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday declared his intention to run in January elections on social networking site Facebook.
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/ 9 September 2010
Police on Thursday hunted hundreds of inmates who escaped when suspected Islamists used machine guns and bombs in a Nigerian prison attack.
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/ 8 September 2010
An attack on a prison in northern Nigeria by suspected members of an Islamist sect freed 732 inmates, the state prisons head said on Wednesday.
Nigerian cops use illegal arrests and torture to demand bribes from the innocent, sometimes killing people over as little as 13 cents, says a report.
Children are the losers as funding for immunisation dries up.
Nigeria’s most senior Anglican cleric uses distorted readings of the Bible to support his viscerally homophobic message.
Nigeria on Monday lifted a two-year ban it imposed on its national football team after a dismal World Cup showing, avoiding a collision with Fifa.
Fifa on Monday indicated that its ultimatum for Nigeria to reverse its decision to ban its football team from international matches stood.
Fifa on Friday gave Nigeria until Monday 4pm GMT to reverse its decision to ban the national football team from international matches.
A leader of a radical Muslim sect that started a rampage that left 700 people dead in Nigeria has allegedly issued threat calling for new violence.
Nigeria’s president has banned the country’s football team from international competition for two years following their dismal World Cup performance.
When Samuel Eto’o called Cameroon’s World Cup exit the biggest disappointment of his career, he knew it was his last chance to impress the world.
But regulations, governance and corruption all
pose challenges.