20120522 AFP A Nigerian man said Monday that he helped carry out deadly attacks on April 29 at a university church service and admitted belonging to Islamist group Boko Haram in his confession to police.
20120522 AFP Classrooms have been burnt, reduced to piles of broken glass and shards of cement, but children and teachers remain, squeezing into the part of the building still standing for lessons.
20120521 AFP The retired general, a revered man here, reaches into his immaculate white robe after taking a seat in his living room and pulls out his Beretta, placing it on the table in front of him.
20120520 AFP Security forces found weapons and bomb-making stocks during a house raid Saturday in the violence-plagued central Nigerian city of Jos, police said.
20120517 AFP An explosion caused by dynamite on a bus in the Nigerian oil hub city of Port Harcourt on Thursday killed the driver and wounded two others, the state governor and a rescue official said.
20120515 AFP Gunmen believed to be members of Islamist group Boko Haram burned down a police station in volatile northeast Nigeria, killing two policemen and a civilian, the military said Monday.
20120512 ABUJA, May 11 (Xinhua) -- The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) is to organize the 2nd edition of its Air Exposition in central north Kaduna State from May 15 to May 19.
20120512 LAGOS, May 11 (Xinhua) -- A Nigerian commercial airliner with Dana Air on Thursday night made an emergency landing at the Murtala Muhammed Airport after the plane lost hydraulic pressure.
20120509 AFP Nigeria's military has arrested 21 Ghanians and five Nigerians for alleged oil theft as they operated two vessels in the country's main crude-producing region, authorities said on Tuesday.
20120429 AFP Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday toured the blast-damaged offices of a major newspaper hit by a suicide attack and pledged to do everything possible to end such violence.
20120429 AFP Gunmen suspected of belonging to the Boko Haram Islamist sect fatally shot a police inspector outside his home in northern Nigerian Yobe state Friday, a police official said.
20120424 AFP Five suspected Islamist militants were killed when bombs they were assembling exploded during a shootout with government troops in northern Nigeria, a military commander said Monday.
20120421 AFP A Spanish doctor kidnapped in the southeastern Nigerian city of Enugu on April 4 has been freed and is in good health, his country's foreign ministry said on Saturday.
20120418 AFP Nigerian troops killed one suspected member of the Islamist Boko Haram sect and arrested 13 others in dawn raids Tuesday on two hideouts in Maiduguri city, an army spokesman said.
20120417 AFP Police were called to a London court on Monday where a former Nigerian state governor, James Ibori, was due to be sentenced over a fraud involving $250 million of state funds.
20120417 AFP The Nigerian candidate to head the World Bank said on Monday that the appointment was not being decided on merit and that the US nominee would win, but added that she had helped bring change to the process.
20120416 AFP French energy group Total has shut down a gas plant in southern Nigeria because of a techical fault during a drilling operation at an oil facility, the company said on its website.
20120414 AFP Nigeria's president signed off Friday on a $31 billion budget for 2012 in Africa's largest crude producer amid concern it has not done enough to guard against a possible future slide in oil prices.
20120414 AFP The main militant group in Nigeria's oil-producing region claimed in a statement on Friday to have attacked installations belonging to Italian firm ENI.
