Top Nigerian militant extradited
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A top Niger Delta militant leader, Henry Okah, has been extradited from Angola to Nigeria, say officials.
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One of the United States' most wanted fugitives, accused of raping his daughter and posting the video on the Internet, agreed on Monday to be extradited from Hong Kong.
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German authorities extradited a leading Islamic extremist known as the Caliph of Cologne to Turkey, ending a protracted legal battle over his case.
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The Nigerian military has stormed a hideout and freed one of two Chinese workers abducted by unknown gunmen more than two months ago in the country&#39;s southeast, the police said Monday.
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An Islamic militant sought by Turkey as the suspected mastermind of a plot to crash a plane into a major landmark was flown to Istanbul on Tuesday, hours after a court approved his extradition, a police official said.
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Adams Oshiomhole, the head of Nigeria's main union body, is said to have been freed after his arrest on Saturday.
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A senior al Qaeda militant once earmarked by the group to lead its wing in Iraq was arrested by Turkey about 18 months ago and was extradited to the United States, an al Qaeda leader said in remarks aired on Thursday.
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One of North Africa's most wanted Islamic militant leaders, accused in the kidnapping of 32 European tourists last year, has been taken into custody in Algeria, authorities said on Thursday.
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The factional leader in a powerful  Nigerian rebel group in the oil-producing Niger Delta is being  detained in Angola on arms trafficking charges, his wife told  Reuters on Saturday.
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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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Briton extradited from Morocco to appear in court this morning in connection with UK's biggest cash robbery
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The leader of the Nigerian umbrella workers&#39; union who was arrested at gunpoint by the country&#39;s secret police, the State Security Service (SSS), had been released,Owei Lakemfa, spokesman of the union, told Xinhua on Sunday.
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Radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri has been de-arrested, but remains detained as authorities examine his possible extradition to the United States to face terrorism-related charges.
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UK police have detained Abu Izzadeen, a British Muslim convert who claimed to speak for an outlawed radical group
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Nigerian militants have kidnapped a Croatian worker on the troubled waterways of the Niger Delta, officials and the oil giant Shell said, amid rising tensions in Africa's biggest oil producing region.
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A leading Islamic preacher is charged with treason in Turkey after being extradited from Germany.
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A leader of the militant group behind attacks on Nigeria's oil industry was released from prison Thursday, a gesture seen as a peace offering by a new government that has vowed to make the crisis a priority.