Nigeria News

July 17, 2008 When Gordon Brown met Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua in London this week, improving the security of energy supplies from the Niger Delta was high on the agenda.

The Appeal Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River State, yesterday nullified the election of the state Governor, Mr.

WARRI, Nigeria : Fourteen Filipino nationals detained in Nigeria on suspicion of stealing thousands of tons of crude oil from a vandalized pipeline have declared their innocence while they were paraded before ...

Nigerian gunmen Friday, July 11 kidnapped two expatriate employees of German-founded construction firm Julius Berger Nigeria in the Western African nation's oil-producing Niger Delta Region.

Five people were confirmed killed yesterday in Bonny, Rivers State when militants attacked a naval gun boat guarding oil installations in the volatile Niger Delta region.

Professor Pat Utomi has called on the federal government to meet the demands of teachers who are at present on strike.

The Chief of Defence Staff, General Owoye Azazi, yesterday told the Senate ad-hoc committee on the Green Tree Agreement that the former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, did not consult the military before ...

A contract for the construction of office block extension at the National Board for Technical Education , Kaduna was yesterday approved by the Federal Executive Council at the cost of N282, 208, 221.75. ...

By UFFORD WILSON The Associated Press Wednesday, July 16, 2008; 12:46 PM PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria -- A band of suspected militants attacked a naval houseboat stationed in Nigeria's restive, oil-rich south ...

OSLO, Norway _ Armed pirates hijacked a Norwegian ship off southern Nigeria on Wednesday, roughing up the crew but releasing them after two hours, officials said.The suspected pirates climbed aboard the ship in ...

Stampedes during a recruitment process by the Nigerian immigration service killed at least 30 job seekers and injured scores more as unemployed youths rushed at locked gates, witnesses have said.

Also yesterday, the Osun State Election Petitions Tribunal upheld the election of Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola, saying he was clear winner of the April 2007 polls.

Tuesday July 15,2008 NAOMI Campbell has made no secret of her desire to have a baby.

Reva is duped into confessing; Cyrus promises to protect Grady and Daisy; Hawk comes clean about his plan for the movie.

Gunmen kidnapped two foreign workers with a German construction firm in the southern Nigerian oil city of Port Harcourt on Friday, the security forces said.

British supermodel Naomi Campbell says she refuses to retire after more than two decades on the world's catwalks because there are still too few black models in the fashion industry.

Naomi Campbell takes a short vacay from anger management classes to attend the Africa Rising festival in Lagos, Nigeria .

A passenger plane overshot the runway and skidded to a halt in a nearby field while landing Monday in Nigeria's southeastern oil town of Port Harcourt but no one was seriously hurt, police and airport officials ...

One of China's top engineering firms has signed a $1 billion deal to build a road around the volatile Nigerian city of Port Harcourt, the hub of Africa's biggest oil industry, the AFC development bank said on ...

PLAN by the Nigeria Immigration Service to beef up its staff strength has claimed no fewer than 13 lives across the country, with eight in Enugu, Abia and Anambra states, four in Asaba, and one in Bauchi.