Nigeria, Africa

A report in an American medical journal that children in northern Nigeria have been infected with polio by the vaccine designed to prevent it have...

President Umaru Yar'Adua's administration has halted an initiative of his predecessor to privatise 102 elite public secondary schools across...

Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua recently declared the energy crisis a national emergency, but aid groups say he should also declare a state of...

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...

A Nigerian "free puppy" scam has been circling the internet for months without any reports on television or on radio. Just yesterday the Toronto...

Human rights advocates in Nigeria are voicing alarm about recent arrests of cross-dressing men and of women allegedly wearing ‘indecent’ clothes,...

Many residents of Port Harcourt, the main city in Nigeria's poor but oil-rich Niger Delta region, are complaining that a night-time curfew imposed...

More than 5,000 people were made homeless by flooding in and around the northern city of Sokoto this week, bringing the number of victims to 50,000...

Flooding and rainstorms in two northern Nigerian states have left thousands more people displaced and killed many livestock, local officials said. ...