The recent wave of tragic floods in most states of the country has drastically reduced Nigeria's crude oil production by 500,000 barrels per day (bpd), the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has said.

Nigerian military authorities on Sunday said at least 13 people were killed in the various violent attacks carried out within three days in Potiskum, a restive town in northeastern Yobe State.

At least 12 corpses of passengers whose bus plunged into a river in southwestern Nigeria's Ogun State were recovered on Saturday.

President Goodluck Jonathan in Bamako yesterday said the political crisis in Mali needed collective actions to resolve.

Maiduguri — At least 15 explosions were reported yesterday in Gwange and London Ciki areas of Maiduguri.

Some 24 people, including 17 Muslims who were returning from the early morning prayer, were reportedly killed yesterday by unknown gunmen in Dogon-Dawa village, Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

At least 20 Muslim worshippers have been killed in an attack by gunmen on a mosque in a village in northern Nigeria, a local official says.

Kaduna — Twenty people have been allegedly killed, while scores were injured in an early Sunday morning attack on worshippers exiting a mosque by unknown gunmen in Dogo Dawa, a village near Birnin Gwari in Kaduna State, a senior traditional title holder in Birnin Gwari emirate (name withheld) in a recorded interview with our reporter has said.

Following the failure of the federal government to seek a review of the 2002 judgment of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Bakassi Peninsula, there are indications that some indigenes of Bakassi have commenced preparations to seek self-determination towards forming a separate state.

Shell broke the law by not repairing leaks that destroyed the lands of Niger Delta farmers, a Dutch court heard in a case that could set a precedent for global environmental responsibility. The four Nigerian farmers, backed by lobby group Friends of the Earth, have brought the Anglo-Dutch oil giant into court thousands of miles away from their homes with a civil suit that could open the door for hundreds of similar cases.

Maiduguri — At least 30 civilians and insurgents were killed in Maiduguri yesterday when security operatives allegedly went berserk after the killing of an Army lieutenant and six other military personnel in an explosion.

Nigerian soldiers have killed about 30 suspected members of Boko Haram, including a close associate of the group's leader, during a gun battle in north eastern Yobe state, an army spokesman says.

Contrary to speculations that the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has been discharged from Wiesbaden Hospital in Germany where she is receiving treatment, the hospital has confirmed that the ailing wife of President Goodluck Jonathan is still on admission.

The Joint Task Force on security in Yobe State, has killed 30 suspected Boko Haram members, including the terrorists' field commander, Bakaka.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Sabotaged phone lines prevented students from warning friends and possibly saving their lives in the attack in which 22 college students were killed earlier this week, survivors said Friday.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Survivors of an attack that killed at least 22 college students in Nigeria's northeast say sabotaged phone lines prevented them from warning friends that could have saved lives.

Nigeria has launched an investigation into the massacre of at least 26 people in a recent attack on a hostel at the Federal Polytechnic University in the northeastern town of Mubi.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's anti-graft agency says two former employees have been jailed over a $600 bribe.

At least 20 civilians, mostly students, have been killed at a college dormitory in Nigeria's northeastern state of Adamawa.

ABUJA, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- At least 148 people died as a result of flooding in 21 states in Nigeria, a top official with the Nigerian Red Cross Society (NRCS) said on Tuesday.