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Trading soccer for wickets in Nigeria cricket boom
Near the parade ground that Queen Elizabeth II once toured when Nigeria was still under British rule, the sharp crack of a ball against a bat marks ...
Monopoly comes to Lagos, Nigeria's biggest city
Nigeria's largest city of Lagos is no boardwalk, but now Monopoly is taking inspiration from the city's sprawling chaos. Officials unveiled a ...
Nigeria minister's mother abduction part of trend
Police searched Monday for the kidnapped mother of Nigeria's powerful finance minister, after an abduction that shows no one is out of reach of ...
Nobel laureate Soyinka: Nigeria 'at war' with sect
Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka on Friday dismissed calls for peace negotiations with the radical Islamist sect known as Boko Haram and said Nigerian ...
Serena: Matter of time until No. 1 again
In the midst of the Williams sisters' first bustling visit to Africa, Serena wasn't quite sure which country she was in Saturday. But she's certain ...
Dancing Venus beats sister Serena in Nigeria match
After months of injuries and illnesses, Venus Williams was all smiles as she interrupted a break during an exhibition match with her sister Serena to ...
Williams sisters inspire local kids in Nigeria
On their first visit to Nigeria, Serena and Venus Williams want to inspire local kids to set their goals high. "We were really able to break the mold ...
European fashion buyers look to Nigeria
A model struts the runway wearing a flowing newspaper print gown in this African megacity where international high-end fashion buyers are looking ...
New Nigeria museum fetes late Afrobeat singer Fela
"FELA LIVES," reads the Gothic-lettered tattoo on the back of one of the sons of the legendary Afrobeat singer from Nigeria. Fela Anikulapo-Kuti died ...
Rooftop pool, wine bar: Hotels building in Africa
The rooftop pool at Nairobi's newest high-rise hotel juts out over the edge so swimmers can peer through the glass bottom eight stories down. A new ...
Qatar Airways flight lands safely after emergency
A Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Nigeria landed safely Saturday after the pilot discovered a problem with the aircraft's landing gear, authorities ...
Troubled BlackBerry maker sees Africa potential
In a film recently made in Nigeria, a man stops a beautiful woman, suavely trying to get her to talk to him. Instead she pouts her lips and looks down ...
Central Bank bars Nigeria airlines from bank loans
Nigeria's Central Bank has barred the nation's top two airlines from receiving any additional loans over their massive outstanding debts, an official ...
Nigeria's largest airline halts domestic flights
Nigeria's largest airline Arik Air Ltd. halted all its domestic flights indefinitely Thursday as its leaders alleged government corruption made it ...
Secondhand clothes from West flood Nigeria markets
At Nigeria's Katangua Market, that castaway from the West means big money. Shipping container after shipping container arrive in the market in Lagos, ...
Google goes low-tech to unleash Nigeria potential
Despite all its cutting-edge technology, Google Inc. has turned to the humble text message to break into Nigeria's booming economy. The search engine ...
Soldiers open fire to disperse Nigeria protesters
Soldiers opened fire Friday to drive away young Muslims in central Nigeria protesting a film critical of the Prophet Muhammad, witnesses and ...
3 Nigeria oil firm staffers killed fixing pipeline
Nigeria's state-run oil company says suspected oil thieves have killed three of its employees near Nigeria's commercial capital. Fidel Pepple, a ...
Nigerian airline collapses as industry struggles
Almost half the aircraft had been pulled out of service at Air Nigeria, this West African nation's second-largest airline, and its staff hadn't ...
Mobile phone towers attacked in north Nigeria
A radical Islamist sect that has attacked mosques, churches, schools and government buildings at will in Nigeria appears to have added a new target ...
Nigeria navy retakes hijacked oil tanker off coast
Nigeria's navy on Wednesday retook an oil tanker hijacked off the country's largest city, freeing 23 Indian sailors held hostage by pirates who fled ...
Nigeria uncovers cocaine-stuffed roasted chicken
The roasted chickens had an unusual stuffing — $150,000 worth of cocaine, according to Nigerian police. A Nigerian mechanic who struggled in Brazil ...
Nigeria's floating slum targeted by authorities
The Makoko slum floats on the murky lagoon that separates mainland Nigeria from the island that gave birth to its largest city, a permanent haze of ...
Preliminary report issued over Nigeria plane crash
A commercial airliner that crashed last month in Nigeria's largest city, killing more than 150 people onboard and others on the ground, lost both ...
Families of Nigeria crash victims get compensation
A grounded Nigerian airline says it has started compensating families of those who died when one of its planes crashed a month ago, with each family ...