The Islamist group, Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati Wal-Jihadl, popularly called Boko Haram, has identified more media houses and staff as targets of its attacks.
Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission says it is ready to conduct free and fair elections in presidential and parliamentary polls on 8-9 April.
Security forces have been deployed in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, as the ruling Peoples Democratic Party is set to choose its presidential candidate Thursday.
In Nigeria, a pile-up has killed 40 people along the Ife-Ibadan expressway in the south-west of the country. Many of the victims were burned beyond recognition.
Chinese investors, the Lagos state government and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, are to build an 8-billion-dollar refinery in Lagos, in the south-west of Nigeria.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has revered his earlier decision to ban the country's team from competitive football because of its poor World Cup performance.
A leader of an Islamic sect, Abubakar Shekau, who was believed to have been killed last year in Maiduguri in Nigeria, has resurfaced in a video clip. Shekau, who was the deputy leader of the ...
