A radical Muslim sect used assault rifles to launch a coordinated sunset raid on a prison in northern Nigeria, freeing more than 100 followers and raising new fears about violence in the oil-rich nation just months before elections. * Tweet Be the...

All of Nigeria is at risk in a cholera epidemic that has killed 352 people in only three-months time, health officials warned Wednesday, as the country’s rainy season continues to spread the water-born infection. The nation’s Health...

Royal Dutch Shell is warning that acts of sabotage against its pipelines in the oil-rich southern delta of Nigeria are increasing. Shell issued a statement Sunday saying its Nigerian subsidiary had suffered at least three separate incidents of sabotage...

Mr. Elle Karam was dead drunk. He was not aware that his Dana flight to Abuja yesterday had just escaped a major disaster. He did not smell any smoke or see any fire. He was not aware of any pandemonium. “I’m glad to get off the...

A recent surge in kidnapping in Nigeria has seen prominent members of society — from all-singing, all-dancing “Nollywood” film stars, to the elderly father of a former central bank governor — becoming victims of abductions. This year has seen a...

One of the most powerful figures in the Anglican Church believes that Africa is under attack from Islam and that Muslims are “mass-producing” children to take over communities on the continent. Archbishop Nicholas Okoh, 56, was elected Primate of...

Nigeria and Angola are Africa’s top two oil producers, yet most of their people live in wretched poverty, often in shanties dwarfed by fire-belching derricks. Corruption has long kept oil revenues from making life better for ordinary people in...

When the White House announced two months ago that President Obama would visit Ghana this week, Nigerians read a different, glaring message between the lines: The American leader was not coming to their country.

Abbot compares violence and its effects on oil production in Nigeria to Iraq, however, the ability for international oil companies to work peacefully in Iraq is more nuanced than the Nigeria story.