KANO: The emir of Kano and the state's top politician offered prayers Monday for the more than 150 people killed in a coordinated attack by a radical Islamist sect, though fear kept many Nigerians from coming to the mosque.
Emir Ado Bayero, 81, (...)
LAGOS: For the first time since protests erupted over spiraling fuel prices, soldiers on Monday barricaded key roads in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos as the president offered a concession to stem demonstrations that he said were being stoked (...)
LAGOS: Thick black smoke and flames rose from the burning roadblock that cut off a highway linking Nigeria's mainland to the islands where the oil-rich nation's wealthy live. The bare-chested young men who live under the bridge said they had had (...)
LAGOS: Angry youths erected a burning roadblock outside luxury enclaves in Nigeria's commercial capital Tuesday as a paralyzing national strike over fuel prices and government corruption entered its second day.
The flaming tires and debris sent (...)
LAGOS: A national strike paralyzed much of Nigeria on Monday, with more than 10,000 demonstrators swarming its commercial capital to protest soaring fuel prices and decades of government corruption in the oil-rich country.
Some protesters pulled (...)
ABUJA: Muslim extremists may have planted the bomb that exploded at an army barracks in Nigeria's capital, the country's president said Saturday after the latest attack in a nation beset by violence in recent weeks.
No one has claimed (...)
LAGOS: Multiple explosions rocked a central Nigerian city, another bomb killed at least four at an army barracks in the capital and a radical Muslim sect burned churches in the northeast.
The new violence over the past two weeks highlights the (...)
LAGOS: Gunmen in Nigeria's restive southern delta kidnapped the principal of a school sponsored by Exxon Mobil Corp., killing two police officers in a firefight marking the latest abduction in the region, officials said Thursday.
Akwa Ibom state (...)
GAMBORU: Rioters set a police station ablaze in northern Nigeria near where a radical Islamic sect operates, a police spokesman said Tuesday.
The attack was similar to one that sparked a wave of violence last year that left more than 700 people (...)