20120214
AP
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Members of a radical Islamist sect ambushed an army patrol in Nigeria's restive northeast and killed 12 soldiers, a spokesman for the group said Monday.

20120212
AFP
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities say two explosions, including a car bomb, struck a northeast Nigerian city, wounding two soldiers.

20120212
AFP
Nigeria on Saturday deployed thousands of police for a governor's election in Bayelsa, the oil-rich home state of President Goodluck Jonathan that has been wracked by pre-vote violence.

20120212
AFP
Two explosions went off Friday outside a customs building in Nigeria's flashpoint city of Maiduguri, killing four bombers and wounding two soldiers, the military and residents said.

20120208
AFP
Explosions rocked an army barracks, a bridge and an air base in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna Tuesday, a set of coordinated attacks claimed by the Islamist group Boko Haram, officials said.

20120208
AP
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Bombs exploded Tuesday at two major military bases on the outskirts of a central Nigerian city at the heart of ethnic and religious unrest in Africa's most populous nation, injuring an unknown number of people.

20120208
AP
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — An international watchdog said Tuesday it will cost about $4 million to clean up toxic lead and secure mines in northern Nigeria, where activists say "the worst outbreak of lead poisoning in modern history" has taken place.

20120207
AP
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Soldiers guarding a city at the heart of ethnic and religious clashes in Nigeria detained and later threw out journalists working for a French television station trying to cover the ongoing unrest there, the reporters said.

20120207
AFP
Gunmen blew up a police station and shot one officer in Nigeria's flashpoint city of Kano on Monday as blasts rocked a market in Maiduguri, the base of the Boko Haram Islamists, police said.

20120206
Reuters
(Reuters) - Nigeria's ruling People's Democratic party (PDP) won a governorship election in the northern state of Adamawa, despite fierce criticism over the party's handling of an insurgency in the north.

20120206
AFP
Gunmen late Sunday shot dead a secret police officer in front of his house in Nigeria's northeastern city of Damaturu, a resident said.

20120206
AFP
Nigeria's senate president on Sunday called for decisive action to stem the deterioration of a security situation which he said had become intolerable in the religiously-divided country.

20120204
AFP
A member of Islamist group Boko Haram has confirmed one of the group's high-ranking members was arrested, but refuted reports that the detained person was its spokesman.

20120204
AFP
Lukman Ayodeji makes his living pumping air into tyres next to a tattered shack in a bustling Lagos market -- and now he's worried he'll end up flat broke.

20120129
AFP
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan could enter the race for chairman of the African Union, after Gambia pulled out of the running this week, a source close to Jonathan said on Saturday.

20120129
AFP
Nigerian troops on Saturday killed 11 fighters from the Islamist sect Boko Haram during a shootout in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, a spokesman said.

20120129
AP
KANO, Nigeria (AP) — Police say gunmen from a radical Islamist sect have attacked another police station, killing one officer in a north Nigeria city where they killed 185 people last week.

20120128
AFP
Gunmen opened fire on a police station Friday and two officers were feared dead in the Nigerian city of Kano, where attacks claimed by Islamist group Boko Haram left 185 dead last week.

20120128
AP
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The leader of a radical Islamist sect launching increasingly bloody attacks in Nigeria has rejected offers for a negotiated peace, instead promising to kidnap government officials' family members and bomb schools, according to an Internet audio message allegedly posted by the group.