Leaders of the world’s seven most industrialised countries as well as Russia, due next week to consider aid to Africa, should seek a prime example of what not to do in Maiduguri, a dusty Nigerian city on the edge of the Sahara desert.
Women protesting against oil giant ChevronTexaco’s Nigerian operation claimed on Monday that a fire at the firm’s main oil terminal had polluted nearby rivers.
A Nigerian woman will be able to give birth outside of prison and, along with her former lover, prepare an appeal against a sentence to death by stoning.
Police freed 46 captives — many of them chained and badly beaten — in raids on five ”torture centres” run by an increasingly feared Nigerian vigilante group.
THE grieving families of Kano buried their dead on Monday, consigning many to a mass grave two days after an airliner crashed into the northern Nigerian city, flattening homes and killing 149 people.
PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela and Nigerian military dictator General Sani Abacha will personally resolve the latest diplomatic row between the two countries, presidential spokesman Parks Mankahlana said on Monday.