A Nigerian woman gave birth to sextuplets but died following a Caesarean section, an official said Monday.
Rioters burned homes, churches and mosques in a central Nigerian town Saturday, when violence flared after Muslims parked their cars in front of a church, a Red Cross official said. Four people were killed and 35 injured.
Two Russian oil workers who were kidnapped two months ago have escaped from their captors and been picked up by the military after a harrowing five-day ordeal, an army spokesman said Thursday.
A military spokesman says kidnappers have released the wife of a former Nigerian energy minister.
Authorities have arrested 12 people in a tainted teething formula case in Nigeria that killed 84 children after they swallowed a syrup laced with a chemical normally found in antifreeze, health officials said Wednesday.
Assailants attacked a natural gas production plant in southern Nigeria on Saturday, but the military said its forces repelled the onslaught and killed three gunmen.
Gunmen attacked a ship carrying diesel fuel across Nigeria's restive southern region Wednesday, kidnapping a foreign sailor and inflicting heavy damage on the vessel, officials said.
Dubai said Sunday it has reached a deal with Nigeria to invest in the African nation's conflict-ravaged oil industry and other sectors of the economy.
President-elect Barack Obama, soon to become the United States' first African-American leader, will focus greater attention on Africa, outgoing Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean said Wednesday.
One person was killed when assailants kidnapped the crew of an oil-industry vessel in Nigeria's restive southern oil region, a security official said Sunday.
An Eni SpA official says an explosion that damaged one of its pipelines in Nigeria's restive south has trimmed the country's daily oil output by 12,000 barrels.
The doomed man's eyes stare blankly ahead as he shuffles down a dark corridor, spreading a hush through the death-row cells. The hangman pushes a black hood over the convict's head and tightens a noose around his neck. The trapdoor opens beneath his feet with a clang that reverberates around the stone walls. A gurgle, one last rattle of chains, then silence.
Nigeria's president appointed a new minister Tuesday charged with pacifying the southern region of Africa's largest oil producing country.
A private security official says a Filipino ship captain was killed and two Russians were kidnapped in attacks in Nigeria's troubled oil-producing region.
The Supreme Court upheld Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua's 2007 election win Friday, dealing a blow to political opponents who sought to unseat him.
Pirates attacked an oil-services vessel before dawn Thursday off the coast of Nigeria and kidnapped two foreign workers, a private security official said.
The Foreign Ministry says a Bulgarian engineer has been freed by Nigerian kidnappers after being held for 10 days.
A federal jury has cleared Chevron Corp. of responsibility for any human rights abuses during a violent protest on a company oil platform in Nigeria a decade ago.
Iki Atsen told the women in his family to flee and grabbed an ax as a man with a bullhorn urged 100 Muslim men to storm Atsen's Christian homestead and kill all nonbelievers.
Nigerian food and drug regulators on Tuesday updated the death toll to 34 in an outbreak of fatalities among infants given a locally-made teething formula tainted with a toxic thickening agent.
Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry says a Bulgarian worker has been kidnapped in Nigeria.
A Nigerian communications satellite built and launched by China has been knocked out of service due to a power failure, a spokeswoman for China's launch services provider said Thursday.
The military said it killed eight militants as it repulsed an attack Monday at an oil-industry installation in lawless southern Nigeria, while the main militant group said it released a Ukrainian hostage and three Nigerian captives.
An environmentalist group and four Nigerians filed suit against Royal Dutch Shell PLC in the Netherlands on Friday, claiming the company was negligent in cleaning up oil spills in Nigeria.
A military spokesman says unidentified gunmen have kidnapped a Lebanese construction worker in Nigeria's restive southern oil region.
Amid rising Muslim-Western tensions worldwide, Nigeria's Muslims are heeding allegations that the vaccine is a US plot to spread Aids or infertility.
Pakistan's Swat valley is quiet once again. Often compared to Switzerland for its stunning landscape of mountains and meadows, Swat became a war zone over the past two years as Taliban fighters waged fierce battles against Army troops.
A representative of the European Union, on Tuesday, stormed out of a public forum on oil because he disagreed with criticisms directed at some of Ghana's development partners
Justice Secretary Jack Straw has been the victim of Nigerian fraudsters who sent out hundreds of e-mails in his name asking for money. The e-mails claimed he had lost his wallet on charity work in Africa and needed 3,500 US dollars to get home.
To carry out the elaborate scheme, prosecutors in New York said on Friday, the man, identified as Paul Gabriel Amos, 37, a Nigerian citizen who lived in Singapore, worked with others to create official-looking documents that instructed Citibank to wire the money in two dozen tran …
The Equatorial Guinea authorities have reportedly arrested 15 people over an attack on the presidential palace in the capital Malabo earlier this week.
The Connecticut Law Tribune claims that The Constant Gardener, a John Le Carré book and later a movie with the same name, is in fact based on the Pfizer Trovan case.
An Australian man taken hostage in Gambia by Nigerian internet scammers has been released and his captors arrested.
NIGERIA appeared at the United Nations in Geneva before the UN Human Rights Council to defend its human rights record during the week.
Albert "Jack" Stanley, a former KBR chief executive, pleaded guilty last September to charges stemming from the bribes and agreed to cooperate with investigators. Stanley, who had worked under former U.S.
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John Barnes' Jamaica came close to recording an upset over Nigeria but were left to rue missed chances by Middlesbrough's Marlon King and former Sheffield United striker Luton Shelton at Millwall's New Den.
On January 28th, IBM CEO Sam Palmisano was in the East Room at the White House taking part in the stimulus show. Standing shoulder to shoulder with President Obama and an all-star cast of CEOs representing entities such as Xerox, Kodak, Google, Motorola, and Applied Materials.
At least 84 children have died in Nigeria after being given a teething mixture contaminated with the chemical diethylene glycol, which is normally used in brake fluid as an antifreeze.
The United Kingdom's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has terminated its probe into the "Anglo Leasing affair", one of Kenya's biggest corruption cases. The case involved contracts worth almost $100m between Kenya and the phantom Anglo Leasing Finance company.
Redefining the possibilities of the word "offshore," IBM has invited its recently laid-off U.S. workers to find work with the storied company in developing countries like India – where salaries are a fraction of what Americans are used to.
Each of Nigeria's 43 ministers takes an annual basic salary of about N2 million, plus fringe benefits amounting to nearly N30 million, according to the current remuneration package recommended by the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, which sets the salary sca …
Around 20% of all Subsaharan cellphones come from one building in Hong Kong, according to this report. Go inside a meet a wide range of characters that occupy a large part of the Africa-China technological trade.
Nigerian families can sue the Pfizer drugs giant in the US over its alleged role in the deaths of children, a US appeals court has ruled. The decision overturns ruling by a lower court that the case must be heard in Nigeria.
An 11-year-old girl has been shot dead as she tried to prevent militants kidnapping her brother in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta region. The armed men seized the boy as the two walked to school in Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers State.
Nigeria has cancelled an oil exploration deal signed in 2006 with a South Korean consortium, says the Korea National Oil Corporation (KNOC).
Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR), a subsidiary of the US-Based international conglomerate once headed by former US Vice President Dick Cheney, Haluburton, has reached a tentative agreement with US regulators to pay up to $560 million in fines for multiple charges of bribing NIGERIAN OF …
Abuja — The not-too- cordial relationship between the executive and the legislature turned frosty yesterday, as the Senate said it would not recognise Vice President Goodluck Jonathan as the acting president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
A former Hooters girl who says she's got the right assets - but the wrong accent - is suing the Hawaiian Tropic Zone for crushing her dream of working as one of its bikini-clad beauties.
Halliburton Co. said it has agreed to pay $559 million to the U.S. to settle charges that one of its former units bribed Nigerian officials during the construction of a gas plant.