By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 27 August 2006 Two Nigerian army soldiers stand guard in Ikang, near Calabar in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria, Monday, August 14, 2006 Leaders in the Delta region of Nigeria are denouncing a security crackdown ordered by...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 16 August 2006 President of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo Nigeria's president is ordering a crackdown on those behind a wave of kidnappings and violence in the country's oil-rich Niger Delta. Security patrols are being increase...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 08 August 2006 Nigeria has begun withdrawing its troops from the disputed Bakassi peninsula ahead of a United Nations-brokered deadline agreed with Cameroon. About 3,000 Nigerian soldiers are to be pulled out of the dispute...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 27 June 2006 Lawal Manesara who is a polio victim rides on a skate board along a street of Lagos, Nigeria Nigeria is to launch an ambitious immunization strategy to halt the spread of polio in Africa's most populous country...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 09 July 2006 Nigerian child holds up a chicken outside the family home in Todo village Recent research findings that Nigeria may have been hit repeatedly by different strains of bird flu are raising concern, as the West Afr...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 15 June 2006 President Olusesun Obasanjo's endorsement of a deal to hand over the disputed Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon has prompted a very angry reaction from Nigerians living in the area. --------------------------------...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 20 May 2006 Two unidentified farm worker walk towards birds suspected of having bird flu virus Officials in the northern Nigerian city of Kano are investigating reports of a...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 03 June 2006 Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has taken charge of mediation efforts to secure the release of eight foreign oil workers seized Friday. Presidential spokesw...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 29 March 2006 Nigeria directed the immediate extradition of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor, to Liberia shortly after he was detained while trying to flee into Cameroon...
By Catherine Maddux Washington 24 March 2006 Olusegun Obasanjo seen as he participates in National Population Census at Abuja Earlier this month, a Nigerian constitutional review panel recommended all...