NIGERIA

Boko Haram spokesperson Abu Qaqa was arrested by Nigeria's secret service during an early morning raid on Wednesday.

Mustapha had served as Abacha’s chief of security and has always maintained his innocence

Gunmen bombed a police station Sunday outside Nigeria's second city Kano, the police and witnesses said, leading to an hour of gunbattles in a region plagued by attacks from Islamist sect Boko Haram.

Islamist sect Boko Haram, whose attacks have killed hundreds in oil-rich Nigeria, will continue its campaign until the country is ruled by sharia law, a senior member was quoted as saying on Saturday: We have our sights set on [bringing sharia to] the whole world, not just Nigeria.

Boko Haram threatened Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan this week. Speaking in an audio message that was posted online, rebel leader Imam Abubakar Shekau said that he was willing to martyr himself to make Jonathan see.

The leader of Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has denied killing civilians during the coordinated bomb attacks in Kano last week.

A natural gas offshore exploration rig that caught fire off the coast of Nigeria, killed two contractors and sank, is still burning causing flames to rise up from the surface of the water, and Chevron a official expects the fire will not be put out for another month.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan fired the national police head, Inspector-General Hafiz Ringim, over recent Boko Haram attacks.

Gun and bomb attacks by Islamist insurgents in Kano kill at least 178 people, a doctor claims as hospitals struggle to cope with carnage.

The same house was attacked last Sunday and police believe the incidents are hate crimes because the victims are immigrants from Nigeria

The Islamist sect Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for coordinated bomb attacks on security forces in the northern Nigerian city of Kano that killed at least seven people late Friday.

Multiple explosions have ripped through Nigeria's northern city of Kano, one blast believed to have been targeting police headquarters Friday, causing unknown casualties, although details were not readily available.

The contractors were part of a group who were drilling an exploratory well off the coast of Nigeria.

Scientists have confirmed that a piece of rock which fell into Tissint, Morocco on July 18, 2011 was a pure Martian meteorite. The fireball was spotted in the North Africa sky last summer but discovered six month later.

A prime suspect in the Christmas Day bombings that killed more than 40 Nigerians in attacks aimed at Christian churches has escaped from police custody, officials said.

Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has sent troops into major cities to stop protests over the removal of a fuel subsidy.

Two individuals working on an exploration well off the coast of Nigeria are still unaccounted for following a fire that took place on one of the company's rigs.

Nigerian trade unions called off strikes and protests Monday, ending a major confrontation over fuel prices after President Goodluck Jonathan said he would cut them by one third.

He also admitted that the strike had led to the breakdown of law and order in parts of Nigeria.

Lamido Sanusi, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, has warned the strike is costing the nation’s economy $600-million every day.

India is about to hit a milestone in its battle to eradicate the polio virus with no new cases reported in the past year.