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Nigerian acting President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday dissolved the Cabinet, asserting his power a little over a month after taking over.

Nigeria’s president returned on Wednesday after a stay in hospital fueling concern about fresh turmoil but his deputy said all was "on course".

The Nigerian president has arrived back home after a three-month absence that left the West African country in political limbo.

The Nigerian government on Wednesday flatly rejected calls by dozens of public figures for ailing president Umaru Yar’Adua to resign.

Nigeria’s plan to give Niger Delta residents a slice of its energy company could be a major deterrent to militancy, the governor of Rivers state said.

Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua has held his first-ever meeting with the leader of the main rebel group in the oil-rich Niger Delta.

Nigeria’s independence anniversary is a sad reminder of "a dream deferred for too long", President Umaru Yar’Adua said on Thursday.

A Chinese state-owned oil company is in talks with Nigeria to acquire stakes in some of the world’s richest oil blocks, a daily said on Tuesday.

An amnesty programme in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta risks failing if the government does not back up its offer with serious peace talks.

Nigeria’s president on Tuesday placed security forces on maximum alert after two days of battles with radical Islamists in the north.

A key militant in Nigeria’s Niger Delta detained since September 2007 has accepted President Umaru Yar’Adua recent offer of amnesty.