20110617
Reuters
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - An explosion near a church killed four children in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno on Thursday, a region which has been beset by attacks by a radical Islamist sect, police said.

20110617
Reuters
ABUJA (Reuters) - A suspected suicide bomber detonated explosives outside Nigeria's police headquarters on Thursday, officials said, killing several people and marking a serious deterioration in security in the West African nation.

20110616
Reuters
ABUJA (Reuters) - Dead bodies were being carried from a police car park in Nigeria's capital Abuja on Thursday, the Red Cross said on Thursday, after an explosion set dozens of vehicles ablaze and sent thick black smoke into the sky.

20110616
Reuters
ABUJA (Reuters) - A radical Islamist sect is suspected to be behind a bomb in Nigeria's capital Abuja on Thursday that left dead bodies scattered in a police station car park, a police spokesman said.

20110614
xinhua
ABUJA, June 14 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it would ensure that election materials are made accessible for forensic inspection as might be ordered by any election tribunal.

20110610
Reuters
ABUJA (Reuters) - The naming of Nigeria's new cabinet could take several more weeks because the Senate has gone on recess, undermining President Goodluck Jonathan's hopes of having a new administration in place quickly.

20110606
Xinhua
OUAGADOUGOU, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Burkina Faso will prosecute the 57 mutineers arrested last week in the country economic capital Bobo Dioulasso, according to the West African country's Justice Minister Jerome Traore.

20110606
Xinhua
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Two persons were killed at the weekend in a northeastern town of Nigeria when troops deployed to quell religious extremism clashed with a popular Islamic sect Boko Haram, according to local police.

20110606
Xinhua
ABUJA, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria's outgoing Speaker of the House of Representaives Dimeji Bankole has been arrested, according to the West African country's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

20110530
Reuters
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in for his first full elected term at the helm of Africa's most populous nation on Sunday, faced with the challenge of driving reform and trying to heal regional rifts.

20110527
Reuters
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected members of a radical Islamist sect attacked a police station in northeast Nigeria with explosives and assault rifles on Friday, killing at least 13 people including civilians, police said.

20110525
Xinhua
LAGOS, May 25 (Xinhua) -- Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan expects a new federal cabinet two weeks after his inauguration, barring any unforeseen circumstances.

20110524
Xinhua
ABUJA, May 24 (Xinhua) -- The Nigerian government has released the program for the inauguration of President Goodluck Jonathan on May 29.

20110517
Daily Trust

Maiduguri — A fierce gun battle raged at Gwange area of Maiduguri on Sunday night when gunmen suspected to be members of the Yusufiyya Movement, popularly called Boko Haram, ambushed a military patrol team.

20110517
Daily Champion

Maiduguri — THERE was heavy exchange of gunshots between the military and unknown gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram last night at Gwange ward of the Maiduguri metropolis.

20110517
Reuters

More than 800 people were killed and 65,000 displaced in three days of violence following a presidential election in April won by President Goodluck Jonathan, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.

20110516
vangaurd

Abuja — NINE outgoing state governors across the country who have enjoyed immunity for the past four or eight years may soon be guests of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, as their tenures expire on May 29.

20110512
Reuters
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - The Nigerian army clashed with militants in the creeks of the Niger Delta on Wednesday, the first such skirmish for months in the heartland of Africa's biggest oil and gas industry.

20110407
This Day

No fewer than 20 people have been feared killed and 20 houses destroyed during an attack on Kurum village in Bogoro Local government Area of Bauchi state.

20110507
reuters

BAUCHI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Attackers have killed at least 16 people and set fire to more than a dozen houses in a town in northern Nigeria that has been beset by years of sectarian violence, police said late on Friday.