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April 10, 2017 at 12:15 am

Trump to sell attack planes to Nigeria for Boko Haram fight

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration will move forward with the sale of high-tech aircraft to Nigeria for its campaign against Boko Haram Islamic extremists...

April 5, 2017 at 10:35 am

Nigeria’s ex-oil minister charged with money-laundering

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's Federal High Court on Wednesday charged a former oil minister with money-laundering in an election bribery scandal over efforts to...

Nation & World

March 30, 2017 at 7:01 am

Nigeria summons Indian diplomat over attacks on students

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nigeria's foreign ministry has called in India's top diplomat to protest attacks on African students and demand arrests and prosecutions of perpetrators,...

Nation & World

March 24, 2017 at 4:43 am

Royal Dutch Shell hid Nigeria oil-spill dangers, health data, says geologist

Royal Dutch Shell's Nigeria subsidiary "fiercely opposed" environmental testing and is concealing data showing that thousands of Nigerians are exposed to health hazards from a...

Business

March 4, 2017 at 7:05 am

Nigeria charges Shell, Eni with corruption in oil bloc sale

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nigeria has filed criminal charges of corruption against oil multinationals Royal Dutch Shell and Eni over the $1.1 billion sale of one...

Business

March 4, 2017 at 3:38 am

Nigeria wants Shell to open major pipeline but attack feared

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nigeria wants Royal Dutch Shell to reopen one of its main pipelines but the oil multinational is resisting, analysts say, for fear...

Business

February 24, 2017 at 12:58 pm

Nigerian kidnappers demand $200,000 for German scientists VIEW

KADUNA, Nigeria (AP) — Kidnappers are demanding a ransom of 60 million naira (about $200,000) for a German archaeologist and his associate abducted this week...

Nation & World

February 21, 2017 at 2:49 am

Nigerians starved of electricity access turn to solar VIEW

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The surprise was finding that people dependent on candles, batteries, kerosene and fuel for generators in countries without a secure supply of...

Nation & World

February 16, 2017 at 1:04 am

Nigerian leader extends sick leave abroad as citizens suffer

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's nearly month-long medical leave in London is a sharp reminder to taxpayers that while they finance their leaders'...

Nation & World

February 10, 2017 at 8:48 am

Nigeria seizes $10 million from ex-state oil manager

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's anti-corruption agency says agents seized nearly $10 million from a safe in a slum building belonging to a former manager...

Business