Nigeria's Islamist Boko Haram sect was responsible for a string of weekend bombings targeting government buildings and churches in Geidam in the northeast, its purported spokesperson said on Monday.

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Fired Nigerian anti-graft boss 'takes sack in good faith' - Three days after she was fired as the Chair of Nigeria's anti-corruption Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs. Farida Waziri has broken her silence, saying she takes the sack in good faith.

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Ojukwu's place in Nigeria's history is assured, says President Jonathan - Saying that Ojukwu's place in Nigeria's history is assured, President Goodluck Jonathan said on Saturday that he received, with sadness and a deep feeling of great national loss, the news of the death of Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu in the United Kingdom. According to a presidency press statement, signed by Dr. Reuben Abati, the president's Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Jonathan joins Chief Ojukwu’s family, the government and people of his home state, Anambra, the entire Igbo people of Nigeria and his friends, associates and followers across the country, in mourning him.

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Jonathan inaugurates 21-member panel to review Nigerian constitution - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan Thursday inaugurated a 21-member constitution review committee, and charged them to work out the 'settled' areas of national discourse. The committee will also draft bills that will be considered by the executive branch of the federal government before sending them to the National Assembly for consideration and enactment into law.

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Indications emerged on Friday that Nigerian lawmakers may have soft-pedalled on their vehement opposition to the planned removal of fuel subsidy by the federal government. The private Nation reported that the MPs have given four conditions under which they would support the removal of fuel subsidy, listing them as the publication of the list of the beneficiaries of the past fuel subsidy; presentation of facts and figures on the subsidy; release of palliative measures Nigerians will enjoy after the removal and a concrete plan to make local refineries work at full capacity.

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While on a state visit to Nigeria, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe vowed Saturday to help the nation in its fight against Islamic extremism. The radical group Boko Haram has claimed credit for a wave of violent attacks in the country's north.

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Nigeria's drive to boost the quality and processing of cassava, launched two months ago as part of a larger plan to turn the country into a powerhouse for food production, now has a leading cassava scientist at its helm.

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Nigeria's powerful governors applied to the supreme court on Monday to block the federal government's planned removal of $1 billion from the country's crude oil savings to set up a sovereign wealth fund (SWF)

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Attackers used explosives and gunfire to target a military patrol near a wedding in violence-torn northeastern Nigeria, with residents reporting two civilians killed in the violence.

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Violence during Nigeria’s elections which begin this week is a concern but is unlikely to disrupt the overall process, the head of the Commonwealth election observer mission said.

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Nigeria began a two-week programme Saturday to register millions of voters ahead of April landmark elections in Africa's most populous country with a history of electoral fraud and violence.

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Nigeria's ruling party nominated incumbent Goodluck Jonathan as its presidential candidate Friday for April's landmark vote after he fended off a challenge from the country's mainly Muslim north.

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Abuja central area in Nigeria's capital city is now under tight security as the ruling People Democratic Party (PDP) prepares to hold its presidential primaries Thursday in the city as well as the Armed Forces Remembrance Day (AFRD). The area, almost two kilometres radius, includes the perimeter areas of the Three Arms Zone -- the access areas of the Federal Secretariat, Eagle Square and the National Arcade.

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Nigeria's ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), got into more trouble Wednesday after an Enugu High Court, in South East Nigeria, granted an interim order restraining its National Chairman, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, from parading himself as the party chairman, PANA reported, quoting the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

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Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo left Cote d'Ivoire early Monday after two days of mediation as incumbent Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo still refused to cede power since the Nov. 28 presidential vote

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Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo was shuttling between meetings Sunday with the country's defiant president who refuses to cede power and the internationally recognized winner in the latest effort to resolve the post election crisis.

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Nigeria enters the most important three months of its recent political history this week, beginning elections which could chart its path for further reform or plunge its most volatile regions back into violence.

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Christian youths attacked a car full of Muslims returning from a wedding in central Nigeria, killing seven people inside the vehicle and sparking retaliatory violence that left one other person dead, an official said Saturday.

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A click on the link below will lead us to a painful story of a four year old boy who currently battles cancer in Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria.

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Nigeria’s military launched a co-ordinated air, naval and ground assault to free 19 hostages held in militant camps in the oil-rich southern delta, apparently routing the gunmen without causing any casualties.

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