Violence was relatively low in the run-up to local elections on 29 March in Nigeria's oil-rich Rivers State but with evidence emerging of massive...

A leader of a Niger Delta oil militant group unseen in public since his arrest has failed to appear before a Nigerian court as expected. At a court...

A scheme to give one million low-cost laptops to Nigerian schoolchildren has stalled because some policymakers say the money would be better spent...

In a welcome centre in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, a small finger traces the words of an English text book; a young voice struggles to pronounce the...

Civil society groups in the Niger Delta region have warned that the government is destroying communities’ health and Nigeria’s environment by...

Patience Israel, a 20-year-old hairdresser, lived in a decent home in Karimo, a squatter settlement near Nigeria's political capital, until it was...

One of the most dangerous things anyone can do in Nigeria is get into a car. “Remember that every road user is mad,” reads a hand out from the...

The Nigerian senate has called for a review of the 2006 agreement in which Nigeria agreed to transfer ownership of the disputed Bakassi peninsula...

The Community Court of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Abuja, Nigeria, will today, September 26, 2007 resume hearing of...

The Gambia’s Chief Justice was elected to preside over a two-day meeting of Supreme Court Chief Justices of Ecowas members states on September 13th...