20110714 Reuters MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - A radical Islamist sect behind almost daily attacks in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno said on Wednesday it would not open dialogue with the government until the military withdrew from the region.
20110713 Reuters ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's main labour unions said they will begin a three-day strike on July 20 after the government and private sector failed to implement a minimum wage law signed by President Goodluck Jonathan earlier this year.
20110713 Reuters MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Thousands fled the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Tuesday and the local university was shut after a week of clashes between an Islamist sect and military forces.
20110711 Reuters SULEJA, Nigeria (Reuters) - A bomb blast at a church in Suleja, a satellite town on the outskirts of Nigeria's capital, Abuja, killed three people and seriously wounded seven on Sunday, the Red Cross said.
20110707 Reuters ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's returning oil minister may have the support of the president but with Africa's largest energy industry stalling she will need to show swift progress to prove her critics wrong and attract much-needed investment.
20110706 Reuters MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - A heavy explosion followed by bursts of sporadic gunfire hit the northeastern Nigerian town of Maiduguri on Wednesday, where a militant Islamist sect has been waging a campaign of violence.
20110706 Reuters ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has asked the Senate to approve World Bank managing director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as a member of his new cabinet, the president of the upper house of parliament said on Tuesday.
20110703 Reuters ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's secret service detained a former cabinet minister and leading opposition figure on Saturday over a newspaper column in which he criticised the high cost of government in Africa's most populous nation.
20110703 xinhua ABUJA, July 2 (Xinhua) -- Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday in Abuja swore in 14 new ministers, including 12 returnees who moved back to their former ministries.
20110702 xinhua LAGOS, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria's southwest Osun State is ready to partner with China on agriculture and farm produce processing and also welcomes the Chinese investors to boost its agri-oriented industries, state governor Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola told Xinhua on Friday.
20110629 Reuters ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria has imposed earlier closing times on nightclubs, beer gardens and cinemas in the capital Abuja and banned parking on two of the city's major roads after a bomb attack at police headquarters two weeks ago.
20110627 xinhua LAGOS, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria's troubled city Maiduguri was hit by a new bombing attack on Monday, in which at least two people were killed and several others injured, according to security sources.
20110627 xinhua MAIDUGURI, Nigeria June 27 (Xinhua) -- At least 30 people have been killed and several others seriously injured by suspected members of the Boko Haram sect in a drinking joint in northeast Nigeria's Borno State on Sunday, according to security sources.
20110625 xinhua SANTO DOMINGO, June 24 (Xinhua) -- The Dominican Republic on Friday extradited a Nigerian citizen to the U.S. where he is wanted on charges of drug trafficking, anti-narcotics authorities here said.
20110625 Allafrica Lagos — The Police Command in Maiduguri, Borno State, has called on Boko Haram, the extremist Islamic sect blamed for a series of deadly attacks in northern Nigeria to declare a ceasefire and come to dialogue.
20110621 Xinhua LAGOS, June 21 (Xinhua) -- The police in southwest Nigeria's Ogun State have placed its officers and men on red alert to prevent terrorism currently being experienced in some parts of the country.
20110621 Xinhua ABUJA, June 21 (Xinhua) -- Nigerian has pledged security for delegates to the 30th Session of the D-8 Commission scheduled to take place on July 11-14 in the capital Abuja.
20110620 Xinhua PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria, June 20 (Xinhua) -- The Nigerian police in oil rich Rivers State on Monday announced the rescue of the five youth corps members abducted in the state 12 days ago.
20110619 Reuters ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian police have uncovered 20 corpses hidden in a tunnel in the southeastern town of Onitsha, and suspect they were victims of armed robbers.
