Nigerians have lost faith in their controversial president, say pollsters

Armed militants wearing black masks and military fatigues showed off a 68-year-old American hostage to reporters and released photos of eight other foreigners seized a week ago by a group demanding a greater share of Nigeria's oil wealth.

Two American brothers attempt to drive from Ghana to Nigeria. Along the way, it becomes clear that the main rule is that there are no rules.

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Consequent upon the compelling needs to firmly state our position, and especially attendant upon the attempts at sweeping over the basic interests of the Southern States of Nigeria, we exercised the highest of caution and responsibility as we confronted the political and economic future of Nigeria.

Having, therefore, deliberated elaborately on such fundamental national issues brought as tabled, and having consulted widely on ways and means of attaining all-inclusive solutions, we the Governors, national and states’ Legislators, Leaders of major political parties, ministers, traditional rulers and leaders of socio-political organisations, have formed precise impressions on the issues tabled and therefore resolve as follows:

A recent service at an Anglican church in Abuja, Nigeria. The Nigerian Anglican Church objects to efforts to accommodate homosexuality

A Nigerian state governor who was charged with money laundering in the UK has been impeached and arrested in his oil-rich home state of Bayelsa.

Diepreye Alamieyeseigha was detained by police after losing the immunity from prosecution that he enjoyed in office.

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Riot police clashed violently with stone-throwing youths as business remained paralysed in much of southeastern Nigeria on the second day of protests called to demand an independent homeland for the 40-million-strong Igbo people.

Witnesses said that police had shot dead at least three people in the market city of Onitsha on Tuesday, and relatives showed AFP the corpse of 29-year-old Ikechukwu Okere, who died from bullet wounds.

 BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - Authorities announced murder charges Thursday against a 27-year-old man in the slaying of an Illinois college student whose body was found in a burned-out Mississippi chicken coop.

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Nearly tripling over a decade, Maryland's Nigerian community has grown in prominence and visibility

• Properties in UK, USA, South Africa - Millions of Pounds
• Tens of Properties, Boats in Nigeria
• Illegal Transfers
• Overinvoicing