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Nigeria detained and released several radical Muslims suspected of being terrorists in 2007 — including a man who officials now say helped organize last week's deadly car bombing at the United Nations headquarters in the nation's capital, a high-ranking official told The Associated Press.
A car laden with explosives rammed through two gates and blew up at the United Nations' offices in Nigeria's capital Friday, killing at least 16 people and shattering part of the concrete structure. A radical Muslim sect blamed for a series of assassinations and bombings in the country claimed responsibility for the attack.
Nigeria launched two observation satellites into orbit Wednesday, and authorities said they hoped to use the equipment to monitor weather in a region seasonally ravaged by disasters.
The Associated Press has withdrawn its story about Ted Turner pledging $80 million to a United Nations foundation to fight childhood polio and measles in Nigeria. Amy DiElsi, a Washington-based spokeswoman for the United Nations Foundation, says Ted Turner has made no such pledge.
When authorities arrested suspected arms dealer Henry Okah in 2006, militants in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta launched attacks that drastically cut crude production and sent world markets wobbling.
Nigeria's acting president has approved a budget that increases spending by about 50 percent, riding on the bullish hopes a truce with militants in the oil-rich nation will hold and allow crude production to increase.
Thousands of protesters marched in Nigeria's capital to demand electoral reforms before the coming 2011 presidential election.
Nigeria's main militant group vowed to resume attacks after a cease-fire expires next week, while the government said Thursday that more than 8,000 militants had disarmed as part of an amnesty program.
Nigeria began a 60-day amnesty Thursday for militants fighting in the country's oil-rich Delta region, a government official said, but the main militant group said it would not participate.
As many as 10,000 militants who have sabotaged oil production in Nigeria's restive Niger Delta could take advantage of an amnesty deal offered last month, an official said Friday.
Nigeria's main militant group says its has destroyed a recently repaired Chevron oil pipeline.
Russia's president said Wednesday his nation's investment in Nigeria could stretch into the billions of dollars, as the two nations signed deals on nuclear energy, gas and oil exploration in Africa largest oil producer.
Militants sabotaged major crude pipelines in Nigeria's chaotic oil region on Monday, further trimming crude production as the military widened an operation to uproot the fighters.
A Nigerian court-martial has sentenced 27 former U.N. peacekeepers to life in prison after they were convicted of mutiny following protests that officers had stolen their extra U.N. pay, their lawyer said Tuesday.
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.
West Africa's regional economic body has suspended Guinea's membership following a military coup in the country, officials said Saturday.
Nigeria's president appointed a new minister Tuesday charged with pacifying the southern region of Africa's largest oil producing country.
Two Nigerian singers won top awards Saturday as MTV held its first-ever music award program for Africa, with acts from across the world's poorest continent being nominated for prizes.
The Nigerian government charged two former aviation ministers Wednesday with misusing a $165-million fund set up to improve air safety after three airplane accidents.
A workers' strike that slashed Nigeria's oil output ended Thursday and regular production will resume, the union behind the strike said.
Militants said Friday they remotely detonated an explosive device placed on a docked ship, and authorities said two people were injured in the fiery blast in restive southern Nigeria.
Nigeria's financial crimes agency on Wednesday arrested a former state governor in the country's oil-rich Niger Delta on allegations of corruption and money laundering, law enforcement officials said.
Computer chip maker Intel Corp.'s chairman, Craig Barrett, launched a "digital inclusion project" Wednesday in Nigeria that aims to train 150,000 teachers, provide 3,000 computers to schools and pilot an electronic means for hospitals to care for children in remote areas.
A court in Nigeria on Tuesday released on bail an American aid worker charged with violating state security after she helped two Germans film in the country's troubled Niger Delta oil region.
Government lawyers filed a new $7 billion civil lawsuit Friday against Pfizer Inc., adding a more serious fraud charge to their allegations that the U.S. drug maker did not properly obtain consent from families while testing an experimental drug on their children.
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