20120730
AFP
Two former Nigerian leaders issued a rare joint statement on Sunday calling for talks to end a deadly insurgency by Islamist group Boko Haram, warning the violence could put the nation's unity at risk.

20120730
Press TV
At least eight people have been killed in separate incidents of violence in the northern Nigerian city of Kano.

20120729
AFP
Suspected sea pirates attacked a vessel transporting workers for Italian firm Agip in southern Nigeria, leaving at least one person dead, officials said Friday.

20120728
AP
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 smoke rising from homes built on timber stilts.

20120725
AFP
Nigeria's military said Tuesday thousands of residents of a central state forced to evacuate after deadly unrest could now return home after soldiers wrapped up operations in several villages.

20120724
AP
JOS, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities in central Nigeria say a flood triggered by heavy rains killed at least 35 people.

20120724
AFP
Heavy rainfall in central Nigeria forced a dam to overflow, causing flooding that left at least 35 people dead and destroyed or damaged some 200 homes, the Red Cross said Monday.

20120723
AFP
A bomb blast in restive northern Nigeria killed a 10-year-old boy and wounded 10 others on Sunday, police said, in an area repeatedly targeted by a radical group.

20120721
AFP
Nigeria's first lady was on Friday sworn into a senior government post in the oil-rich state of Bayelsa, an appointment tagged as scandalous by some opponents.

20120721
AFP
Thousands of people forced from their homes ahead of a military offensive in central Nigeria say they are being held in squalid camps and want to return home, officials said Friday.

20120718
AFP
Nigeria has fined Shell $5.0 billion over an oil spill late last year at an offshore field, but the company told AFP on Tuesday there was no basis for the fine.

20120718
AFP
More than 5,500 people fled their homes after attacks this month on mainly Christian villages in central Nigeria in which over 100 people were killed, the Red Cross said Tuesday.

20120713
AP
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Local Christian and Muslim communities have clashed for years in Nigeria's middle belt and the conflict took an unexpected turn this week when Islamist insurgents based in the country's removed northeast claimed responsibility for a raid and attacks that killed dozens, signaling a dangerous change of tactics for the group. Many thought Muslim herdsmen had been behind the weekend raids on Christian villages.

20120713
AFP
More than 100 people who rushed to scoop up fuel after a Nigerian petrol tanker tipped over Thursday were burned to death when the vehicle and spilled oil caught fire.

2012-07-11
Xinhua
Nigeria's senate on Wednesday renewed its call for dialogue with the country's militant group as key to a lasting resolution of crises flaring across the country.

20120709
AP
JOS, Nigeria (AP) — Raids and reprisal attacks have left 58 people dead in Christian villages near a Nigerian city where authorities have struggled to contain religious violence, officials said Sunday.

20120709
AFP
Gunmen killed a federal senator and a state lawmaker in Nigeria's troubled Plateau state on Sunday at a mass burial for the victims of an attack a day earlier.

20120709
AP
JOS, Nigeria (AP) — Raids and reprisal attacks have left 52 people dead in Christian villages near a Nigerian city where authorities have struggled to contain religious violence, officials said Sunday.

20120709
AP
JOS, Nigeria (AP) — Raids and reprisal attacks have left 37 people dead in Christian villages near a Nigerian city where authorities have struggled to contain religious violence, authorities said Sunday.

20120708
AP
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Police in Nigeria's northeast say members of a radical Islamist sect have clashed with the army in a city wracked by violence.