Nigeria News

An Ikeja High Court on Friday viewed slide images of the autopsy conducted on the remains of Cynthia Osokogu, who was murdered in a Lagos Hotel on July 22, 2012.

The Nigerian Communications Commission on Thursday in Abuja said Mobile Number Portability would not cause deterioration in the quality of service in the country.

National leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria , Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, says leaders of opposition parties remained resolute in their desire to reconstruct Nigeria.

Kenya coach, Adel Amrouche is worried that his preparations for the crucial June 5 World Cup qualifier against the Super Eagles is not up to a full speed as some club coaches have refused to release their players for training.

Nigerian athletes return to golden league action today in Benin City, after another lack luster performance at the Port Harcourt leg of the meet last weekend.

Nigerian army soldiers are driven in a pickup truck as they partrol the streets of Maiduguri, capital of the Borno state in Nigeria, on May 24, 2013.

Cynthia Agholor will tell anyone who cares to listen that she has been having a wonderful time in Nollywood even though she started acting as a child many years ago.

FOR nine months, the midwife had been giving the woman herbs to take and several things indicated she was indeed pregnant.

A building collapse in Bangladesh killed more than 1, 100 people. In Lagos, Owerri, Calabar and a few other Nigerian cities, buildings have also collapsed, killing many.

VICE President Namadi Sambo Friday led a high-powered federal government delegation to the National Mosque, Abuja to pray for Nigeria as part of the activities commemorating the forthcoming Democracy Day celebration.

BY NDAHI MARAMA, MAIDUGURI Despite the emergency rule and the deployment of over 3000 Joint Taks Force troops in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, some gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram sect yesterday shot dead provision store dealer, Mr.

Editor's note: 'Funmi Olonisakin is the founding director of the African Leadership Centre , and director of the Conflict, Security and Development Group, at King's College London.

Abuja, Nigeria, May 23, 2013 / 04:06 am .- As the Catholics of the Diocese of Ahiara protested the appointment of a bishop from a nearby diocese as their shepherd, local bishops expressed sadness at the disunity in the Church of Nigeria.

By Francis Kokutse, Lagos , May 23 : India wants increased partnership with Nigeria in education through institutional cooperation, content development, faculty exchange and joint ventures that would enhance the West African country's human resource devlopment, according to Indian High Commissioner Mahesh Sachdev.

The second suspect in the brutal killing a British soldier, Lee Right, of the 2nd Battallion, the Royal Regiment of fusiliers, is also a Nigerian-born British, LEADERSHIP FRIDAY can now reveal.

It's the middle of a working day, in the middle of the week, but the trickle of worshippers at the Synagogue Church of All Nations is quickly becoming a flood.

The coffin of author Chinua Achebe is seen a stage, as part of an event in Awka, Nigeria, Wednesday, May 22, 2013.

At large public hospitals in Nigeria, overworked nurses snap at crowds of pregnant women, who wait hours to receive quality care.

By Bashir Adefaka A network of Islamic organizations led by Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has urged the Federal Government to look beyond declaration of state of emergency in tackling the security challenges facing the country.

Nigerian pop stars, Tuface Idibia , D'banj , and Psquare were announced at the unveiling ceremony held in lagos on Wednesday May 22, as the headlines for this year's Star Music trek.