Suicide bombers targeted four churches in a series of attacks in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing at least 25 people, many of them children, and prompting reprisal attacks.

As many as 80 people w

Bomb blasts targeting newspaper offices in Nigeria's capital and the northern city of Kaduna on Thursday have killed at least six people, emergency officials said.

A local emergency management spokes

About 70,000 newborns in Nigeria are HIV positive, a top government official of the west African nation has revealed.

Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) John Idoko

A Nigerian court has sentenced three Indians of a Lagos-based company to one-month imprisonment each for disobeying its orders.

The Indians, who are brothers, include the Managing Director of a priv

A deadly haemorrhagic virus Lassa has killed at least 13 people since its detection a week ago in Nigeria, Xinhua reported.

The virus was detected in Taraba state and the deaths reported at the Feder

Militants targeted army's and air-force bases in Nigeria as explosions hit northern city of Kaduna on Tuesday, even as casualty figures remain unknown.

Spokesman for the National Emergency Managemen

An Indian was among two workers who were killed in a major fire that consumed the visible part of Chevron Corp company-owned oil rig off Nigeria's coast.

An official from FODE Drilling Ltd, the comp

The toll in the killings in Nigeria has risen to 185, police said in a statement.

A statement issued by police in Kano state on Monday night said the dead included 150 civilians, 29 police officers,

Nigeria on Monday announced the removal of fuel subsidies amid fears of labour unrest, a move that is bound to be unpopular among the citizens of the oil-rich nation as it may push up the prices of petroleum products.

Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday declared state of emergency in regions bedeviled by regular attacks by radical Muslim group Boko Haram, which was described as 'cancerous' group bent