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By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 30 September 2007 A Nigerian ruling party official says the legal challenge against President Umaru Yar'Adua's election is a distraction and should be dropped. From the Nigerian capital, Abuja, Gilbert da Costa reports the t
By Leta Hong Fincher Washington 24 January 2008 The world's largest drug company is embroiled in a global controversy over whether it tested an unapproved drug on sick children in Nigeria without their full understanding. The case involving Pfizer ra
For the first time in years, the Nigerian Army conducted military drills in the Sambisa Forest which previously had been a stronghold for Boko Haram. VOA was given rare access to the exercises. Brigades of the Nigerian Armys 7th Division performed th
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 26 December 2006 A Nigerian court in Abuja is expected to hear Wednesday, a motion seeking to set aside the removal of the vice president by President Olusegun Obasanjo. Gilbert da Costa in Abuja reports Nigeria - which is
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 23 November 2006 The Nigerian military faces a huge task in checking the growing violence in the oil-rich Niger Delta, a remote region of mangrove swamps. Inadequate funding is also being blamed for undermining the capacity
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 26 July 2006 Nigeria's anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has warned Internet service providers that they risk 20 years imprisonment if they aid online scams. -------- The newly introduced Advan
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 18 September 2006 Investigations have been launched into Sunday's military plane crash in central Nigeria. At least 12 out of the 17 on board are feared dead. --- The wreckage of the Nigerian air force Dornier 228 aircraft
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 28 August 2007 Gunmen in Nigeria's troubled oil-rich southern Rivers state have set free a Nigerian oil worker and a Pakistani construction manager seized about a month ago. Gilbert da Costa in Abuja reports that only one ho
By Nico Colombant Abidjan 18 February 2006 Nigerian militants in the oil-rich Niger Delta have launched a new wave of attacks, including the kidnapping of nine foreign oil workers. The militants are t
By George Dwyer Washington, DC 22 February 2006 watch Nigerian Oil report Militants in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger River Delta claim to have struck again. Only days after kidnapping a group of foreign oi
By Joe Bavier Abidjan 28 March 2006 Compound of the house where former Liberian warlord Charles Taylor lives near the sea side town of Calaber Exiled Liberian warlord-turned-president Charles Taylor h
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 24 May 2008 The violence against foreigners in South Africa is being monitored closely in Nigeria. Several thousand Nigerians live in South Africa, and some of them have been targeted in the recent violence against foreigner
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 09 March 2007 A leading gay activist in Nigeria has denounced current government efforts to ban homosexuality in the country. For VOA, Gilbert da Costa reports the Nigerian government is facing substantial international pres
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 13 August 2007 Security officials say gang fighting that broke out over the weekend in the main oil city of Port Harcourt has been quelled. For VOA, Gilbert da Costa reports from Abuja. Local police chief Felix Ogbaudu told
By Sarah Simpson Lagos 02 June 2007 One of the main militant groups operating in the Niger Delta says it will suspend hostilities for one month to allow the government of new President Umaru Yar'Adua to create a plan for peace in the oil-rich Niger D
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 17 November 2006 Military personnel in Nigeria are getting free HIV/AIDS treatment under an initiative funded by the U.S. government. Authorities are hoping service personnel will now be encouraged to take voluntary HIV tes
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 08 November 2006 The Nigerian government is under pressure to investigate money laundering charges against a senior presidential aide. The official was indicted by a U.S court for bringing undeclared cash into the United St
Nigeria, sub-Saharan Africa's second biggest equities market after South Africa has long been an attraction for emerging market investors. But the Nigerian stock exchange has slumped to record levels in the past few months, making it one of the wors
By Sarah Simpson Lagos 08 April 2007 Nigeria's president Olusegun Obasanjo (File) President Olusegun Obasanjo has put Nigerian security agencies on full alert ahead of crucial state and presidential elections, which begin at the weekend. Sarah Simpso
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 09 December 2007 A leading Muslim group in Nigeria has dismissed allegations by the country's secret police that several Muslim suspects in northern Nigeria are linked to terrorist organizations. The group says security agen