Probe condemns Nigerian speaker
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Nigerian MPs probing a $5m spending spree by the new speaker say she broke the rules.
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ABUJA, Nigeria  - Plainclothes police detained a prominent Nigerian labour leader Saturday, bundling him into a car at an airport in an apparent effort to stop a threatened countrywide strike by oil-industry workers in Africa's largest petroleum exporter, his union said.
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Nigeria's newly sworn-in president says the troubled Niger Delta will receive his "urgent attention".
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The British government condemned racist taunts by fans in Spain aimed at black players on England&#39;s team during an exhibition game, and FIFA, soccer&#39;s governing body, ordered an investigation yesterday.
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Nigeria's embattled parliament speaker agrees to step aside while MPs debate a $5m contracts scandal.
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A Nigerian former state governor has  turned himself in to police after more than a year on the run,  vowing to defend himself in court against allegations of  corruption, local newspapers reported on Saturday.
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LONDON: The British minister under investigation for allegedly fast-tracking a visa for a former lover's nanny was at the centre of a new political storm yesterday over slurs on his government colleagues.
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ABUJA : Nigerian secret police detained the country&#39;s top trade union leader, dramatically raising tensions two days ahead of a threatened nationwide general strike against rising fuel prices.
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The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday urged  President Olusegun Obasanjo to pay attention to the law in a  rebuke over his role in attempts to disqualify some candidates  from April's landmark elections.
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ABUJA, Nigeria, Sept. 7 -- President Olusegun Obasanjo sent the Senate a report by a state  anti-corruption agency accusing his deputy of diverting millions of dollars in public funds to private business concerns, officials said Thursday.
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World-famous author Chinua Achebe rejects a national award, criticising the "dangerous" state of affairs in Nigeria.
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Nigeria's president-elect says he will reform the election process - strongly criticised during last month's poll.
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U.S. Democratic Rep. William Jefferson was indicted on Monday on 16 counts that accuse him of soliciting bribes and paying off a Nigerian official, a U.S. Justice Department official said.
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Nigerian Anglicans are examining a report by a special commission that criticized US Anglicans for ordaining a gay bishop. The controversy has threatened to split the Anglican Church and is not yet over.
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A minister orders an inquiry into an Islamic school which is accused of promoting religious intolerance.
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The suspended governor of a Nigerian state is questioned in the UK over allegations of money laundering involving Â£1m.
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Britain's most senior police officer is to face questions over allegations of corruption in his force's flawed investigation into one of the country's most notorious racially-motivated murders, the BBC said.