By Tokunbo Aderemi Ayoola Nigeria’s railway network serves only a small portion of the country. The country is 923,770 square kilometers (357,000 square miles) , with...
Axa SA, the largest external insurer active in Nigeria, sees the peaceful manner in which the country is handling its first transition in political power in...
Muhammadu Buhari has been elected president of Nigeria, defeating the incumbent Goodluck Jonathan and setting the stage for the first transfer of power from the People’s...
Nigerian opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari is heading for a win against the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan, with 14.6 million votes to Jonathan’s 11.3 million and only...
Counting is underway in Nigeria’s presidential election, with the incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan facing a strong challenge from retired military general Muhammadu Buhari. The country’s election...
Nigeria extended voting in presidential and legislative elections to Sunday after delays and equipment malfunctions disrupted balloting. Accreditation began late at about half of the polling...
Nigerian businesses from small operations to the huge Dangote Group, run by Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, are being battered by a weak naira and low...
About 82 percent of Nigerian voters have collected the cards they need to present at polling stations to take part in Saturday’s presidential elections, officials said...
Latest polls indicate that opposition leader Muhammadu Buhari will defeat the incumbent president, Goodluck Jonathan in the upcoming presidential elections. According to political research group, Eurasia,...
President Idriss Deby of Chad has informed the media during a press conference that the Chad military and government has narrowed down the location of al-Qaeda-linked...
Nigeria has postponed the February 14 presidential and legislative elections by six weeks to March 28 due to security concerns, the chairman of the electoral commission...
By Nnanna Ochereome It is strange that a section of the political class in Nigeria cannot find in their ranks a suitably qualified, intelligent and competent...
Voters in Nigeria will have a chance to see the leading candidates for the presidential election, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari, in action, during the presidential...
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has said that the West African nation will keep its currency strong and its economy stable in 2015 as it seeks to...
Former soldier and military leader Muhammadu Buhari will challenge President Goodluck Jonathan at February presidential elections in Nigeria, according to results Thursday from party primaries. The...
Nigeria’s main opposition coalition began a convention Wednesday to select a candidate to take on incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan in February, in what will be the...
Nigeria’s main opposition elected a veteran politician from the Christian south as its inaugural chairman on Saturday, as it looks to win voters on both sides...
The immediate past governor of Nigeria’s Central Bank, Lamido Sanusi, has been named the new emir of the powerful Kano emirate, to succeed late Ado Bayero....
Nigerian police said on Tuesday that protesters were free to march in the capital Abuja, after an uproar over comments by the police commissioner in which...
Nigeria’s new central bank chief Godwin Emefiele took office on Tuesday with a mandate to ward off pressure to devalue Nigeria’s currency and manage rising inflation....
Nigeria’s president said on Thursday he had ordered “a full-scale operation” against Boko Haram Islamist militants. Speaking on Nigeria’s Democracy Day, Goodluck Jonathan said he had...
The agricultural industry has always been linked to rural development however it is time for investors to look at it as a business industry. This was...
The Nigerian High Court has dismissed central bank governor, Sanusi Lamido’s challenge over his dismissal by President Goodluck Jonathan. Sanusi had filed a law suit challenging...
A fortnight ago in Abuja, Nigeria the World Economic Forum brought together political, economic and thought leaders from throughout the continent. This included Rwanda’s Paul Kagame,...
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has canceled a visit to a northeastern town where Islamist militants last month seized more than 200 schoolgirls. Officials said Friday that...
A top U.S. Defense Department official on Thursday said Nigeria had been too slow to respond to the threat of Boko Haram. But the official said...
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan will on Friday visit the northeastern village from where more than 200 schoolgirls were abducted a month ago by Islamist rebels from...
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan have stated that Chinese and Nigerian partnership has strengthened. This follows after the two delegates held...
Two decades ago Nigeria’s military was seen as a force for stability across West Africa. Now it struggles to keep security within its own borders as...
Nigeria now has the largest economy in Africa, the government announced on 6 April. With a gross domestic product of $500.9 billion, Nigeria should attract more...
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said on Friday he believed the schoolgirls abducted by Islamist militants last month in an attack that has stirred global outrage are...
Of the newly discovered 46 oil blocks in Kenya, the East African country’s authorities has awarded seven oil blocks to Nigerian businessmen. This announcement comes on...
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered top security officials to do everything possible to secure the release of the more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by suspected...
Nigeria’s interminable focus on fortifying its oil and gas sector could hamper its chance to diversify the economy. This is according to the 2014 Economic Report...
Nigeria has a strong, buoyant economy receiving billions of dollars of foreign and domestic direct investment in power, petrochemicals, agriculture and consumer goods, but it needs...
Nigeria is leading a stout fight against oil theft and corruption on an institutional level and boasts crucial accountability bodies. “We’re coming from a history in...
Since Nigeria’s new mega-opposition party formed last year, it has been clear that they do not support the ruling People’s Democratic Party. The PDP has run...
Conflict in northeast Nigeria appears to be escalating with nearly 100 people killed and three abducted in separate attacks over the weekend. Two vehicles exploded Saturday...
Immediate Past Nigeria Central Bank Governor, Lamido Sanusi. PHOTO/File Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday suspended the Central Bank governor in a surprise move that halted...
Kola Karim, the managing director of Shoreline Energy international, says the vast majority of onshore oil rigs in the Delta will be operated by Nigerian-owned companies...
(Reuters) – A close ally of Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, Bamanga Tukur (pictured), has resigned as chairman of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Jonathan told...
Fearing attacks by the al-Qaeda affiliated Islamist militant group Boko Haram over Christmas, Nigerian police said on Sunday they had ordered extra patrols, surveillance and covert...
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan. PHOTO/File Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan lost his majority in parliament on Wednesday after 37 lawmakers defected from his party for a new...
Nigeria’s central bank Governor Lamido Sanusi. PHOTO/File (Bloomberg) – Nigerian central bank Governor Lamido Sanusi will be stepping down in June next year, raising concerns among...
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan. PHOTO/File Seven state governors have defected from Nigeria’s ruling party and merged their splinter group with the main opposition party on Tuesday,...
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan will not present the 2014 budget to the federal national assembly as planned on Tuesday...
Kaduna Refinery (Bloomberg) – Nigeria, Africa’s largest oil producer, plans to begin privatizing its 4 state-owned oil refineries before the end of the first quarter of...
The tiny state of Anambra in southern Nigeria goes to the polls this weekend to elect a new governor in a vote seen as a key...
(Reuters) – Suspected Islamist militants have stormed a college in northeastern Nigeria and shot dead around 40 male students, some of them while they slept early...
Nigerian President.,Goodluck Jonathan. PHOTO/File Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday reshuffled his cabinet and in the process dropped 9 ministers amid tensions within his ruling party...
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir. PHOTO/Gregorio Borgia/AP (AP) – Civil rights activists and human rights lawyers Monday demanded that Nigeria arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and deliver...
Power pylons in Nigeria (Reuters) – The Goodluck Jonathan administration in Nigeria accepted deposits by bidders for 15 state electricity assets on Monday, a milestone in...
Nigeria has formed a panel that will create an amnesty program for the al-Qaeda-linked Boko Haram extremists to quell a bloody terrorist campaign of bombings and...
U.S. President Barack Obama with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan ‘The people you see in Nigeria today,’ China Achebe once said, ‘have always lived as neighbors in...
A victorious Nigeria team lifts the Africa Cup of Nations Trophy. PHOTO/European Pressphoto Agency Coach Stephen Keshi makes history as one of two men to win...
(Reuters) – A purported senior member of Islamist militant group Boko Haram has distributed a letter requesting talks with the government, a day after a double...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. PHOTO/Eric Feferberg/Getty Images Nigeria Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is not pursuing the World Bank’s top job, her spokesman said Wednesday, amid reports that her...
(Reuters) – Nigeria’s government has in the last week held its first indirect peace talks with Islamist sect Boko Haram, meeting mediators to discuss a possible...
A bomb planted by an abandoned car exploded outside a church in the middle of a worship service Sunday near Nigeria’s capital, wounding five people amid...
The alleged mastermind of a radical Islamist sect’s Christmas Day church bombing fled across Nigeria after escaping police custody and hid for about a month before...
Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote.PHOTO/File Nigerian manufacturing group Dangote has opened a US$ 1 billion cement plant near the economic capital Lagos, one of the largest investments...
Envoys of Nigeria’s president are in negotiations with elements of the Islamist insurgency behind an onslaught of attacks that has destroyed government buildings and killed hundreds...
Nigeria has arrested 200 people, mostly Chadian “mercenaries,” after last week’s attacks in the north, a police source said Thursday, as pressure mounts on the security...
Nigeria President., Goodluck Jonathan. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has fired the national chief of police and his six deputies, the presidency said on...
A coordinated attack by a radical Islamist sect in north Nigeria’s largest city killed at least 143 people, a hospital official said Saturday, representing the extremist...
Nigeria’s easygoing president Goodluck Jonathan (pictured), made a rare display of emotion when he addressed a private meeting on an arcane-sounding policy that would become one...
An uneasy calm returned to Nigeria’s cities Tuesday, a day after two Nigerian labor groups suspended their nationwide strike over the elimination of the country’s fuel...
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has announced an immediate drop in the cost of fuel, following a week of strikes after prices doubled. Jonathan said the price...
Nigeria’s government will meet with labor unions in a last bid to halt a paralyzing national strike that now threatens oil production in Africa’s most populous...
Nigeria President., Goodluck Jonathan. PHOTO/File Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan was in crisis talks with union leaders Thursday night in an effort to end a violent nationwide...
Nigeria President., Goodluck Jonathan. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – President Goodluck Jonathan pleaded with Nigerians on Saturday to support the removal of fuel subsidies and pledged to cut...
A radical Muslim sect attacked a church worship service in Nigeria’s northeast during assaults that killed at least 15 people, authorities said Saturday, as Christians vowed...
Protesters unhappy over spiraling gas prices set fires on an expressway Tuesday and at least one person was killed in the unrest after Nigeria’s government did...
Nigeria is ending fuel subsidies, an official said Sunday, a move that is sure to be unpopular in the oil-rich nation where citizens have come to...
(Reuters) – President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency on Saturday in parts of Nigeria plagued by a violent Islamist insurgency, and ordered shut the...
(Reuters) – Nigeria lacks competent leaders to tackle its security problems, a former military ruler said on Monday, following Christmas Day bomb attacks on churches by...
(Reuters) – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan presented a 4.749 trillion naira (US$ 30 billion) budget to the national assembly on Tuesday, in what he said would...
Nigeria’s Senate voted Tuesday to criminalize gay marriage, instituting prison terms of more than a decade for violations in a nation where gays and lesbians already...
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (pictured), passionately believed his homeland in eastern Nigeria deserved to be its own country, a new nation free of the borders imposed by...
ABUJA, Nigeria — Rescue official: At least 7 dead in car bomb attack on UN building in Nigeria’s capital. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights...
ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria has launched two observation satellites into orbit, eight years after launching its first satellite. President Goodluck Jonathan said Wednesday on the state-run...
President Goodluck Jonathan tasks committee to carry out negotiations with Islamist group and report back by mid-August.
LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigeria’s president is proposing limiting the president and governors to one term. A spokesman for President Goodluck Jonathan says the term would be...
ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria’s president has appointed most of the members of the new Cabinet. President Goodluck Jonathan told the newly appointed ministers at the presidential...
