20120229 AFP Armed pirates opened fire on a cargo ship in an attack off the Nigerian coast, kidnapping the captain and chief engineer and robbing the crew before escaping, according to a maritime watchdog.
20120229 AFP Gunmen killed three policemen when they hurled explosives and opened fire on a police station in Nigeria's restive north, the latest attack blamed on an Islamist group, residents said Tuesday.
20120229 AFP Gunmen killed three policemen when they hurled explosives and opened fire on a police station in restive northern Nigeria, the latest attack blamed on an Islamist group, residents said Tuesday.
20120228 AFP Gunmen killed three policemen in an attack on a police station in northeast Nigeria, the latest in a wave of near daily violence blamed on Islamist group Boko Haram, police said Monday.
20120228 AFP The body of Nigeria's secessionist leader Odumegwu Ojukwu, who proclaimed the Republic of Biafra in 1967, was flown back to full military honours Monday, three months after his death in London.
20120227 AFP Nigeria's Islamist sect Boko Haram said it was behind a suicide bomb attack Sunday that killed at least three outside a church in the central city of Jos, and warned of more such assaults.
20120227 AP JOS, Nigeria (AP) — A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives outside a major church Sunday, killing three people and wounding 38 in a restive central Nigerian city that has seen hundreds die in religious and ethnic violence.
20120226 AP GOMBE, Nigeria (AP) — An attack on a police station in northeastern Nigeria killed at least 12 people and wounded five others, authorities said Saturday, amid a growing wave of attacks by a radical Islamist sect.
20120226 AFP Gunmen suspected of being Boko Haram Islamists killed a dozen people when they razed a police station after failing to storm a jail in northeastern Nigeria's Gombe city, police said Saturday.
20120225 AFP Suspected Boko Haram Islamists in two attacks in northern Nigeria on Friday killed five Muslim worshippers in a mosque and attacked a prison and police station, officials said.
20120221 AFP Victims of environmental disasters or other abuses inflicted by corporations in Nigeria are being denied justice as they are too poor or do not know how to seek legal recourse, jurists said Wednesday.
20120221 AFP A man claiming to be a spokesman for Nigeria's extremist sect Boko Haram said Tuesday that the group was behind an attack that claimed about 30 lives in a crowded market.
20120221 AFP Oil companies in Nigeria are battling against rising theft costing an estimated 150,000 barrels of crude a day, a top oil official said Tuesday.
20120221 AFP Several people were killed Monday when suspected Nigerian Islamists opened fire and set off bombs at a market in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, witnesses and the military said.
20120220 AP SULEJA, Nigeria (AP) — A car exploded outside a church in the middle of a worship service Sunday near Nigeria's capital, wounding five people and sparking new fears of violence from a radical Islamist sect, authorities said.
20120215 AP MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities say soldiers have found and safely detonated a car bomb in a northeast Nigeria city that's the spiritual home to a radical Islamist sect.
20120215 AP LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A bomb disposal officer was killed trying to defuse a bomb just minutes after another blast in a flashpoint central Nigeria city previously hit by a feared Islamist sect, police said Tuesday.
20120214 AFP Pirates fired on a cargo vessel off the coast of Nigeria on Monday killing the captain and chief engineer, a maritime watchdog body said as it warned shipping to stay clear of the area.
20120214 AFP Nigeria's army has killed 12 suspected fighters from the Boko Haram Islamists during a raid in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, the group's base, a military spokesman told AFP on Monday.
20120214 AFP The number of Nigerians living on less than $1 per day has increased since 2004 despite economic growth in Africa's top oil producer, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Monday.
