
Number-saving comes to Nigeria mobile phone market
To know what it is like to make a mobile phone call in Nigeria, ask anyone to turn out their pockets or upend their purses. One, two, three and ...

Officials: At least 185 killed in Nigeria attack
Fighting between Nigeria's military and Islamic extremists killed at least 185 people in a fishing community in the nation's far northeast, officials ...

Nigeria censors documentary in growing crackdown
The documentary on a massive strike that paralyzed life in Nigeria features newspaper headlines, television news footage and other information widely ...
Experts: West Africa piracy takes root in Nigeria
The piracy targeting the coast of West Africa takes root in the oil-slicked creeks of Nigeria's southern delta, where militants steal millions of ...

French family of 7 taken hostage in Cameroon freed
A French family with four young children kidnapped at gunpoint by Islamic extremists in northern Cameroon was freed after two months of captivity in ...
Supreme Court limits suits over foreign abuses
The Supreme Court on Wednesday drastically limited the ability of foreign victims of human rights abuses to use American courts to seek accountability ...
Nigeria sets up Islamic extremist amnesty group
Nigeria formed a panel that will create an amnesty program for Islamic extremists to try to quell a bloody guerrilla campaign of bombings and ...
Nigeria reporters face criminal charges for story
Prosecutors filed criminal charges Tuesday against two journalists at a Nigerian newspaper over a story they published on alleged plans by the ...
Violence in central Nigeria villages kills 10
Leaders in two villages in central Nigeria say at least 10 people have been killed in attacks between the Christians and Muslims living there.
Nigeria violence worries US religious commission
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has warned that ongoing violence between Christians and Muslims in central Nigeria exposes the ...

Hundreds arrested in Nigeria immigrant raids
The buses crammed full of young men leave each afternoon from this busy market in Nigeria's largest city, some with bruises around their faces and ...
World sea piracy down 35 percent in first quarter
World sea piracy fell 35 percent from a year ago in the first quarter of 2013, with the spotlight shifting to West Africa as navies helped keep ...

AP PHOTOS: Nigeria's forgotten railroad history
Train horns now sound again across Nigeria's lush south and the encroaching desert of its north, but the history of the nation's 100-year-old railroad ...
Radical Islamic group rejects Nigeria peace effort
The leader of the Islamic extremist network Boko Haram apparently has refused to take part in any possible amnesty deal offered by Nigeria's ...
11 killed in central Nigeria village attacks
Officials in central Nigeria say at least 11 people have been killed in ongoing fighting between Christian and Muslim villagers in the region.
At least 36 killed in southwest Nigeria bus crash
An official says at least 36 people have been killed in a bus crash in which a gasoline tanker exploded in southwest Nigeria. The explosion happened ...

Abandoned Nigeria national theater eyed in renewal
Nigeria's iconic National Theatre rises out of the brackish swamps of Lagos near its islands, a massive concrete and marble structure resembling a ...
18 killed in head-on bus crash in central Nigeria
Authorities say 18 people have been killed in a head-on collision between two buses in central Nigeria. Jonas Agwu, a spokesman for Nigeria's Federal ...
Witness: 19 killed in central Nigeria attack
A witness says at least 19 people have been killed after gunmen raided a village in central Nigeria in the latest unrest in the region. The witness ...
Nigerian military: Soldiers raid home, 14 killed
Nigeria's military says soldiers have attacked a home believed to harbor Islamic extremists, an assault that killed 14 people. Capt. Ikedichi Iweha ...
Attacks leave more than 50 dead in central Nigeria
Attacks on villages surrounding a central Nigerian city at the heart of unrest between Christians and Muslims have killed more than 50 people this ...
Police: British hostage taken in Nigeria released
A British man abducted in Nigeria's largest city has been released by his kidnappers, a police spokeswoman said Thursday, as other foreigners have ...

US eyes anti-piracy effort along west Africa coast
The U.S. and some of its allies are considering plans to increase anti-piracy operations along Africa's west coast, spurred on by concerns that money ...
Nigerian police: Expatriate kidnapped is British
A British businessman was abducted Saturday in Lagos, a rare case of expatriate kidnapping in this West African nation's commercial center, Nigerian ...

S.Africa: Nigerian 2010 bomb suspect gets 24 years
A South African court sentenced a Nigerian to 24 years in prison on Tuesday after finding him guilty of masterminding twin car bombings in Nigeria.