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Authorities say an Australian woman who fell in love online was duped out of nearly $50,000 by a Nigerian man who said he was her "Mr. Right."
Nigeria's main militant group in the oil-rich Delta region said Sunday that it had started formal peace talks with the country's president for the first time since it declared an indefinite cease-fire last month.
ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria's main militant group declared an indefinite cease-fire Sunday, raising the prospect of peace in the oil-rich Delta region after nearly three years of hostilities have crippled production.
A Nigerian lawmaker says parliament is considering a bill that will make it a criminal offense for hospitals and medical workers to delay or deny treatment of gunshot wounds.
Nigeria's president said an amnesty granted to militants over the past two months in the oil-rich Niger Delta has restored peace to the region.
A Nigerian official says at least 14 people died when a petroleum tanker truck exploded and set nine other vehicles alight on a road in southeastern Nigeria.
Nigeria's main militant group vowed to resume attacks after a cease-fire expires next week, while the government said Thursday that more than 8,000 militants had disarmed as part of an amnesty program.
A rebel leader in Nigeria's oil-rich Delta said he has accepted a government amnesty offer to disarm.
A two-month-old truce in Nigeria's oil-rich southern Delta region is holding and the militants have accepted an amnesty offer, according to Nigeria's Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe.
A plastic surgeon in Spain was convicted of negligence in the death of Nigeria's former first lady and was given a suspended sentence of a year in jail, a court said Tuesday.
One of the summer's biggest blockbusters — a sci-fi morality tale about aliens and apartheid — is not welcome in Nigeria because of its portrayal of Nigerians as gangsters and cannibals, Nigeria's information minister said Saturday.
Nigerian militants announced Wednesday they will extend a cease-fire that expired overnight by one month, holding off on attacks on oil installations and kidnapping foreigners, but warned that the government must address the group's grievances.
The waiter at Caliente bar sticks a sparkler into yet another bottle of champagne and hits a siren mounted behind the bar to draw everyone's attention to the sleek Nigerian businessmen who ordered it.
A member of a radical Nigerian Islamist sect that attacked security forces in July, unleashing a bloodbath in which 700 people died, said Wednesday he received bomb-making training in Afghanistan.
A top militant leader and 1,000 fighters surrendered to the Nigerian government Saturday, turning in their weapons in the biggest hand-over since an amnesty began two weeks ago, but other fighters said attacks in the oil-rich Delta region will resume next month regardless.
Nigeria will inject US$2.55 billion into five troubled banks, the country's banking chief announced Friday, in Africa's first major bank rescue program since the global credit crunch began.
Polio, the dreaded paralyzing disease stamped out in the industrialized world, is spreading in Nigeria. And health officials say in some cases, it's caused by the vaccine used to fight it.
In an Aug. 5 story about Nigeria's amnesty program for militants, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the program began Wednesday, Aug. 5. It began on Thursday, Aug. 6.
Nigeria began a 60-day amnesty Thursday for militants fighting in the country's oil-rich Delta region, a government official said, but the main militant group said it would not participate.
Nigeria's government says a program to offer amnesty to militants in the country's restive southern oil region has begun.
The father-in-law of an Islamist sect leader who set off violence that left hundreds of people dead in northern Nigeria was shot and killed and buried in a mass grave, a relative said.
Nigerian authorities ignored dozens of warnings about a violent Islamist sect until it attacked police stations and government buildings last week in a bloodbath that killed more than 700 people, Muslim clerics and an army official said.
Drugmaker Pfizer Inc. and the Nigerian government have resolved a long-running legal dispute over allegations children there were harmed in a 1996 Pfizer study of an experimental antibiotic during a meningitis outbreak.
Islamist militant attacks that killed scores in Nigeria this week appear to be abating, but Nigeria's woes show no sign of going away — and in fact are growing deeper.
Nigeria News Analysis-Marginalising the Igbo May Break Up The CountryEvery human being on God's good earth today is simultaneously endowed with three inter-locking nationalities.
Change with Google searchThe Google search technology is changing. My advice to marketers is to change their ways too.
Nigeria signs $1 bln EU pact to fight corruptionBRUSSELS (Reuters) - Nigeria signed a 677 million euro ($1 billion) pact with the European Union on Thursday aimed at combating corruption and promoting peace in its troubled, oil-producing Niger Delta region.
Nigeria budget delayed by squabbling politiciansNigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua has refused to present next year's budget because of a row between the House of Representatives and the Senate. The two groups were meant to gather in the House of Representatives to hear the budget speech - but the senators refused to go.
Let them eat snail: Nutritional giant snails could address malnutritionA nutritionist in Nigeria says that malnutrition and iron deficiency in schoolchildren could be reduced in her country by baking up snail pie.
A Fulbright in Nigeria That Turned Into a ShowMany things have happened since Dan Hoyle performed in the premiere of "Tings Dey Happen," his incendiary and brilliant solo show about Nigerian oil politics, nearly three years ago at the compact theater the Marsh in San Francisco.
'Scam comic' kidnapped in NigeriaA prominent Nigerian comic actor who is famous for singing a song about e-mail scams has been kidnapped.
MEND NigerDelta News : Yields of Amnesty-Shell Reopens Niger Delta 115,000 BPD OilfieldThis oilfield was shut down in 2006 following a series of attacks on the facility and abduction of oil workers.
Charles Taylor 'duped' by NigeriaFormer Liberian President Charles Taylor has said he was duped by Nigeria into being arrested and facing international justice.
Paradox's: Technology & MoneyNigeria is full of paradox's. Poverty in the midst of abundance seems to characterise the Nigerian economy and many elements of society. I'm fascinated by the contrasts I've seen in Cross River.
Nigeria-Separatist Movement-MASSOB draws first blood-Flays Corrupt Igbo LeadersMovement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has lashed out on corrupt political elite from Igbo extraction who advance their selfish political interests to the detriment of the collective interest of the people.
Nigerian MP's election 'rigged'An election appeals tribunal in Nigeria has sacked a senator, ruling that his election two years ago was rigged. A new election must be held within 90 days to replace Iyiola Omisore, who represented part of Osun state in the south-east for the ruling PDP.
MEND NigerDelta News : Ijaw Group Disowns JomoPress statement signed by the group's chairman Mr. Patrick Bigha allleged that Gbomo wanted to tear MEND apart by this singular action and also demystify the only viable means of agitation by the Niger Delta people.
Operation Eagle Claw nets 18 Nigerian spammersNigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is promising to push the country out of the top ten for fraudulent emails thanks to arrests and proactive action to scan all emails.
MEND NigerDelta News : Weapons in the Niger DeltaThe questions, however, must be asked: How did this staggering quantity and quality of arms and ammunition find their way into the country and particularly, into the Niger Delta region? Are these all that there are or are there more still tucked away in the creeks and in other pa …
Embargo Ordered on Guinea Due to AtrocitiesABUJA, Nigeria - West African nations have ordered an arms embargo on Guinea and accused the military government of carrying out "atrocities" and "mass human rights violations" during an anti-government protest last month.
Christian Pastors Denounce African Children as Witches so the children are Murdered, Tortured and Abused In January, I reported events taking place in Papau New Guinea where witchcraft was on trial. Young girls were the victims of witchcraft accusations and were subsequently tortured, abused and put to death. Today's victims of witchcraft accusations live in Africa.
MEND NigerDelta News : MEND Dares JTF as Ceasefire ExpiresJTF beefed up security at some oil installations in the region, yesterday, while the Commander, Major-General Sarkin Yarkin-Bello, worked late, as he monitored the situation. .............
MEND NigerDelta News : Post-Amnesty Stock-TakingSome of the grievances of the people of the region, which the majority of the militants hijacked and used as political instrument for struggle against the state, are genuine.
Nigeria lifts gunshot medical banNigeria has lifted a law which forced hospitals to withhold emergency treatment from victims of gun attacks until a police report had been filed.
RBA gets 'please explain'THE head of Nigeria's central bank has called on the Reserve Bank of Australia to explain why its bank-note firm's dealings in Africa involved multimillion-dollar payments to offshore tax havens.
MEND NigerDelta News : Federal Govt, Ex-Militants Plot to Stop MEND's ThreatTwenty-Four hours to the end of tomorrow's deadline by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND), to restart hostilities in the Niger-Delta region, the Federal Government is supposedly strategising with some of the ex-militant leaders to checkmate the insurgent …
MEND NigerDelta News : Governors to Monitor Post-Amnesty Development of Niger-Delta - SarakiNigeria- Governors of the thirty-six of the federation have pledged to monitor events in the Niger Delta to ensure that the Federal Government's commitment to the development of the region is actualised.
Niger Delta's oil firms should make amendsPARIS — Western oil firms operating in the Niger Delta must make amends for the degradation of the environment and the lack of respect for rights in that southern part of Nigeria, Amnesty International said on Friday.
Nigeria weapons shipment seized A container full of arms and ammunition has been seized by Nigerian customs officers in Lagos harbour. One person has been arrested and officials are searching for the owner of the arms, which came in from the US.
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