Baga, Nigeria, Apr 22: Fighting between Nigeria's military and Islamic extremists killed at least 185 people in a fishing community in the nation's far northeast, officials said on Sunday, an attack that saw insurgents fire
Abuja, Jan 26: Five Indian sailors kidnapped off Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta and held captive for more than a month have been released by the pirates, a spokesman said on Saturday.The released men were hale
Johannesburg, Dec 19: Gunmen stormed a tanker ship off the coast of Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta, ransacking the vessel and kidnapping five Indian sailors in the latest attack targeting foreign workers in the volatile region,
Abuja, Dec 16: A helicopter carrying Nigerian top-ranking government officials including a governor crashed on Saturday in the country's oil-rich southern delta region, with the fate of passengers not immediately known. Governor of the country's northern
Abuja, Oct 2 : At least 26 students were killed and several others injured when unidentified gunmen wearing military uniform attacked a hostel in northern Nigeria today. Gunmen invaded the hostel of Mubi Polytechnic in
Bauchi (Nigeria), Sep 23: A suicide car bomber attacked a Catholic church conducting Mass in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing two people and wounding another 46 in a region under assault by a radical Islamist
Lagos, Sep 5: Twenty-three Indian sailors are on board an oil tanker hijacked by pirates off the coast of Lagos, Nigeria's commercial hub, said the oil tanker company Wednesday.Pat Adamson, spokesperson for the Dubai-based Pioneer
Abuja, Aug 27 : At least 10 people were killed and 20,000 displaced when waters from a dam in Cameroon flooded some parts of the Adamawa state in Nigeria over the weekend.State Emergency Management Agency
Abuja, Jul 13: As many as 200 villagers trying to scoop up fuel from an overturned tanker were killed in southern Nigeria today, when the petrol carrying vehicle exploded in a horrific inferno.The incident occurred
Caracas, (Venezuela), Jul 7: Russia and Nigeria won Friday to reach the semifinals of the men's Olympic basketball qualifying tournament.Russia defeated Angola 80-65 and Nigeria edged out Greece 80-79.The top three teams in the tournament
Abuja (Nigeria), Jul 6: Prosecutors in Nigeria have charged two Nigerian men with being members of al-Qaida and recruiting new members to train in Yemen.Olaniyi Lawal, 31, and Luqman Babatunde, 30, pleaded not guilty Thursday
Caracas, Venezuela, Jul 5: Lithuania and Nigeria joined Angola and Macedonia in advancing to the quarterfinals of the Olympic basketball qualifying tournament on Wednesday. The four rounded out of the quarterfinal field after Greece, Puerto
Abuja, Jun 10: At least five people were killed and 48 others wounded today when a suicide bomber blew up a car near a church levelling it in central Nigeria's Jos city, a flash point
Lagos, Jun 7: As the search for victims of an Indian-owned flight that crashed with 153 passengers and crew on board ended, Nigerian authorities today reviewed the number of the dead to 159 both in
Abuja, Apr 9: A church building collapsed in a northern Nigerian state on Sunday, killing 22 worshipers and injuring 31 others on a tragic Easter day that also saw two car bombs claim several lives
Abuja, Apr 8: At least 50 people were killed when explosives concealed in two cars went off near a church during Easter Sunday services in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna, eye-witnesses said.Shehu Sani, the
Abuja, Mar 11: At least 20 people were killed and several others injured today in a fresh wave of violence in Nigeria's flash-point city of Jos when a suicide car bomber targeted a Catholic church,
Abuja, Mar 9: A British-Nigerian operation, using helicopters and hundreds of troops including the elite SAS, to rescue two abducted foreigners went awry today with the militant group Boko Haram killing the captives. The special
Abuja, Jan 25: An Indian was among two workers who were killed in a major fire that consumed the visible part of Chevron Corp company-owned oil rig off Nigeria's coast. An official from FODE Drilling
Jaipur, Jan 21: He comes from a country that has witnessed a traumatising civil war with flashes of unrest still evident, but Ben Okri, the Booker Prize winning Nigerian author describes corruption, and not strife
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