
Nigeria summons US official over tweets on pardon
Nigeria's foreign ministry summoned a top U.S. diplomat Friday night over an issue of national importance — on Twitter. At dispute are two messages ...

Nigeria pardons ex-governor who stole millions
Nigeria has pardoned the former political benefactor of the nation's president, a presidential adviser said Wednesday, a politician convicted of ...

Hostage killings a new, dangerous turn for Nigeria
Radical Islamic fighters killed seven foreign hostages in Nigeria, European diplomats said Sunday, making it the worst such kidnapping violence in ...
Nigerian extremists claim they killed 7 hostages
A breakaway Islamic extremist group said Saturday it had killed seven foreigners who its members kidnapped from northern Nigeria, according to an ...
Nigeria: Muslim leader calls for extremist amnesty
The top spiritual leader for Muslims in Nigeria called Tuesday for the nation's president to grant a "total amnesty" for Islamic extremists now ...

Nigeria extremists claim abduction of 7 foreigners
A little-known Islamic extremist group claimed responsibility Monday for the kidnapping of seven foreign workers from northern Nigeria, threatening ...
Health worker killings show north Nigeria dangers
North Korean doctors hacked to death by machete-wielding attackers. Women vaccinating children against polio gunned down in the street. A top Islamic ...
Attackers kill 3 North Korean doctors in Nigeria
Assailants in northeastern Nigeria killed three North Korean doctors, beheading one of the physicians, in the latest attack on health workers in a ...
Nigeria lawmaker charged over alleged bribery
A Nigerian lawmaker who led a probe into the nation's fuel subsidy program that saw billions of dollars lost through fraud has been charged with ...
New pipeline attack shows Nigeria unrest spreads
Thick plumes of smoke rose into the sky and fire danced across the fuel-slicked waters surrounding the Nigerian pipeline, another attacked and ...
Nigeria president likens nation's unrest to Syria
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has likened attacks by a radical Islamist sect in his West African nation to the ongoing civil war in Syria, an ...
Nigeria minister: Mom's kidnap about fuel payments
Nigeria's finance minister on Monday blamed her 83-year-old mother's kidnapping on those angered by the government's decision to stop making some ...
Nigeria governor, 5 others die in helicopter crash
A navy helicopter crashed Saturday in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta, killing a state governor and five other people, in the latest air disaster ...
Abducted mother of Nigeria finance minister freed
The mother of Nigeria's finance minister has been released five days after her abduction, an official said Friday, bringing an end to a family crisis ...
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 ...

Islamist sect in Nigeria grows more deadly
The radical Islamist fighters gather around piles of weapons and ammunition they've stolen and shout praises to God as they shoot into the expanse of ...