World news about “Nigeria” published by euronews.
Nigerian army strikes out at Boko Haram in northeast Nigerian forces have been attacking Islamist camps in the northeast in the biggest offensive since Boko Haram began its insurgency four years ago. Fighter… 17/05/2013
Nigeria: State of emergency declared in northeastern states Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a state of emergency in three northeastern states. More troops have been ordered in following a series of… 15/05/2013
Nigeria shaken by two bloody massacres More 50 fifty people were killed in the north-eastern Nigerian town of Bama on May 7. The army suspects the attacks were carried out by Islamist militants… 09/05/2013
Nigeria : Militants killed 46 police officers in an ambushAccording to local police, Nigerian militants have killed 46 police officers in an ambush in the north central state of Nassarawa. It has not been confirmed… 09/05/2013
Carnage in Nigeria as troops and Boko Haram clash Close to 200 people have been killed in intense fighting between the Nigerian military and Islamist extremists. The battle began on Friday night in the… 22/04/2013
USA : Supreme Court rules for Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria rights caseThe US Supreme Court has decided that the country’s federal courts do not have jurisdiction to hear lawsuits against foreign corporations accused of aiding in… 17/04/2013
African literary giant Chinua Achebe dies aged 82 The man considered by many as the father of modern African literature, Nigeria’s Chinua Achebe, has died in Boston aged 82. His breakthrough novel, “Things… 22/03/2013
Italian government backs hostage death claim Claims by Nigerian militant group Ansaru that it killed seven hostages seized last month have been backed by the Italian government while the Greek foreign… 10/03/2013
Confirmation urgently sought over Nigeria hostage deaths claim Concern is growing for the fate of seven foreign hostages after a Nigerian Islamist group posted a statement on a website saying they had been killed. The… 10/03/2013
Islamic extremist group in Nigeria announce deaths of kidnapped foreigners An Islamic extremist group in Nigeria calling itself Ansaru has announced on its website that it killed seven foreigners kidnapped in the northern part of the… 09/03/2013
Apparent video of captured French family on YouTube A video of what appears to be the French family of seven taken hostage by a suspected Nigerian Islamist group in Cameroon last week has been posted on… 25/02/2013
Abducted French family in Cameroon still missing The seven French hostages taken by a suspected Nigerian Islamist militant group are still missing. The family members were abducted in Cameroon on Tuesday… 22/02/2013
Pipeline explosion in Nigeria – nocomment Fire fighters battle to contain pipeline blaze after suspected vandalism. 23/12/2012
Williams Sisters in Nigeria for Women’s Rights Multiple Grand Slam winners Venus and Serena Williams took part in a coaching session with young children in Lagos on Wednesday during their four-day trip to… 01/11/2012
The promised land Thirteen Nigerian footballers moved to the Ukraine after being promised contracts with clubs in the former Soviet country. However, they now find themselves… 04/09/2012
Don’t scare away the donorsA worshipper playing a clown collects money in a pot during the Osun Osogbo festival in Osogbo, southwest Nigeria. Thousands of worshippers gather around the… 25/08/2012
No survivors in Nigeria plane crashThere were no survivors among the 147 people on board a domestic passenger aircraft that crashed in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos on Sunday… 04/06/2012
Military aircraft exercise in Kano Military aircraft on a routine training exercise in Kano (filmed by Idris) 17/01/2012
Nigeria: fifth day of strike over fuel subsidy – nocomment Nigerians take to the streets for a fifth day of strikes over the lifting of a popular fuel subsidy but the country’s main unions says protests will be… 14/01/2012
Three killed in Nigeria fuel protests – nocomment Three people were shot dead during a nationwide strike in Nigeria against the government’s decision to scrap fuel subsidies. 10/01/2012
Nigerians protest over fuel price rise – nocomment Nigerian unions in Lagos on Tuesday embarked on street protests against a sudden surge in fuel prices, which nearly doubled after government subsidies were… 04/01/2012
Messi arrives to hero’s welcome in Bangladesh Hundreds of fans gave the Argentine national football team a noisy welcome on their arrival at their hotel in Dhaka, Bangladesh on Monday. But the biggest… 05/09/2011
Fire guts Shell facility in the Niger Delta – nocomment Fire guts a Royal Dutch Shell facility in the Niger Delta after an oil spill. 19/08/2011
Women’s football World CupSupporters of Germany cheer their team before the Women’s World Cup Group A soccer match against Nigeria in Frankfurt. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach 01/07/2011
Nigerian troops ‘surround French family’s kidnappers’Nigerian security forces claim to have surrounded the kidnappers of a French family in northeast Borno state in an effort to rescue the hostages. The… 21/02/2013
Cameroon kidnapping: France urges citizens to leave the Muslim northFrance said on Wednesday it believes the Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram was behind the abduction of a French family of seven in Cameroon. The family of… 20/02/2013
Nigeria kidnapping: hostage photo shown on TVThe first photo has emerged purporting to show some of the seven foreigners who have been kidnapped in northern Nigeria. The image, showing a group of… 18/02/2013
Warehouse fire in Lagos, dozens of injuries reportedIn Nigeria, an explosion in the capital has caused a fire that has destroyed several buildings. The blast occurred in a warehouse on Lagos Island at around… 26/12/2012
Nigeria searches for pirates who seized 4 peopleThe Nigerian navy is looking for pirates who kidnapped four crew from an Italian-registered ship. The capture happened off the coast of the southern state… 24/12/2012
Nigeria: Islamist Ansaru behind French kidnappingIslamist group Ansaru says it was behind the kidnapping of a French engineer in Nigeria. 63-year-old Francis Colump was taken on December 19 when around 30… 24/12/2012
Nigeria: Boko Haram call for peace with conditionsRadical Islamist group Boko Haram want peace talks with the Nigerian government. The jihadist sect have been engaged in a campaign of violence against the… 04/11/2012
Suicide bomber targets church full of worshippersA Catholic church in northern Nigeria that was full of worshippers has been targeted by a suicide bomber who drove a jeep into it on Sunday morning. The… 29/10/2012
Suicide bombers attack Nigerian churchAt least one suicide bomber has driven a vehicle packed with explosives into a crowded Catholic church in northern Nigeria. Reports about the number of… 28/10/2012
Shell on trial over pollution in Niger DeltaRoyal Dutch Shell faces a lawsuit on Thursday from four Nigerian villagers in a case that could set a precedent for damage claims against international… 11/10/2012
Nigerian police make arrests in search for student killersPolice in Nigeria hunting the killers of 26 people in a student residence have made a number of arrests. Suggestions that the massacre was related to a… 05/10/2012
Gunmen kill 26 students in attack at college in NigeriaGunmen shot dead at least 26 students in an attack on their college residence in northeast Nigeria, a college spokesman said on Tuesday. The attack took… 02/10/2012
‘Nothing done’ over Nigeria oil pollution, say localsTwelve months after the UN called for a huge clean-up of oil pollution in southern Nigeria, its Environment Programme says it is pleased the government has… 04/08/2012
Nigeria tears downs its largest slumNigerian authorities have begun demolishing the biggest slum dwelling in the country’s largest city, Lagos. Makoko slum was home to nearly 100,000 people… 17/07/2012
Nigeria: More than 100 die after fuel tanker explodesA fuel tanker fire in Nigeria has killed more than 100 people. The vehicle overturned in Ahoada near the oil hub of Port Harcourt, located in Nigeria’s… 12/07/2012
Curfew in central Nigeria after weekend massacresAuthorities in parts of central Nigeria have imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew after dozens of people died in community violence over the weekend. Two… 09/07/2012
Families grieve for victims of Nigeria’s air crashGrieving families gathered at a morgue in Nigeria’s largest city Lagos to try to identify the dead from Sunday’s air crash. All 153 people onboard the Dana… 05/06/2012
Nigerian plane crash death toll rises to 157Nigerian rescuers said on Tuesday that at least 157 people have died following Sunday’s plane crash in the city of Lagos. Officials said four people were… 05/06/2012
Nigerian president visits Lagos air crash siteThe Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan, has visited the site of an air crash in Lagos that is believed to have killed all 153 people on board and an… 04/06/2012
National mourning for Nigeria plane crash victimsThere will be three days of national mourning in Nigeria after a passenger plane crashed into a suburb of the country’s largest city, Lagos. All 153 people… 04/06/2012
Nigerian passenger jet crash declared a major disasterNigeria’s president has declared three days of mourning after a packed passenger jet crashed into a heavily populated district of Lagos. The plane was… 04/06/2012
Passenger jet crashes in Lagos, NigeriaA commercial passenger plane with 153 people on board has crashed in Nigeria’s business capital Lagos. Witnesses said the MD-83 of Dana Air ploughed into a… 03/06/2012
Nigeria mass wedding for divorcees denouncedRights activists have denounced a mass wedding in Nigeria where 100 couples were married at once. Islamic police in the northern city of Kano recently… 19/05/2012
MSF urges Nigeria to act over deadly lead poisoningA leading charity has criticised the Nigerian government for not doing enough to tackle an outbreak of lead poisoning caused by unofficial gold mining that… 11/05/2012
Dozens killed in Nigeria cattle market attackSectarian violence has claimed dozens more lives in Nigeria in a spate of killings across the country. Almost 60 people are reported to have died in an… 04/05/2012
Boko Haram claims blasts at Nigerian newspaper officesA video purported to be from Boko Haram claims the militant Islamist group carried out last week’s attacks at two offices of a Nigerian newspaper. The video… 02/05/2012
Gunmen attack Christians in NigeriaAt least 15 people were killed and many more wounded in an attack by gunmen on Christian worshippers in northern Nigeria. Witnesses said the men arrived on… 30/04/2012
Nigeria: 15 shot in Kano universityFifteen people have been killed in an attack on a lecture theatre used by Christian worshippers in Nigeria’s second largest city, Kano. Gunmen burst into… 29/04/2012
Nigeria rocked by deadly bomb attacksAt least three people have reportedly been killed in suicide car bomb attacks in Nigeria. Offices of the newspaper ‘This Day’ were targeted in the capital… 26/04/2012
Boko Haram blamed for eight deaths in NigeriaNigerian police say that radical Islamist sect Boko Haram have struck again, killing eight people in a spate of attacks. The shootings all took place in and… 21/04/2012
Death toll rises in Nigeria Easter attacksAt least 38 people are said to have died in one of Sunday’s bomb attacks in Nigeria, with the finger of suspicion pointing at the militant Islamist group Boko… 09/04/2012
Death toll likely to climb in Nigerian bomb attacksPolice in Nigeria are investigating a second explosion after an earlier blast killed at least 16 people in the northern town of Kaduna. Some reports suggest… 09/04/2012
Easter carnage as Pope condemns attacksAt least 16 people have been killed and dozens more injured in a suicide bomb in the city of Kaduna. A senior police officer said his men were pursuing a… 08/04/2012
Easter Sunday deaths in NigeriaIn the town of Kaduna in northern Nigeria at least 18 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack. Its understood the bomber was trying to reach a church… 08/04/2012
Italy president slams UK over hostage deathsA diplomatic is simmering between Britain and Italy over a failed hostage rescue attempt that ended the lives of Chris McManus and Franco Lamolinara in… 09/03/2012
Italy blames UK for kidnap death in NigeriaThere is growing anger in Italy following the failed attempt to rescue Franco Lamolinara from Nigerian kidnappers. Apparently the UK did not consult Italy… 09/03/2012
UK and Italian hostages die as rescue bid fails in NigeriaA British and an Italian hostage held in Nigeria have been killed during a failed mission to force their release. Construction workers Chris McManus and… 09/03/2012
British and Italian hostages killed in failed rescue bid in NigeriaA British and an Italian hostage kidnapped in Nigeria have been killed by their captors. The construction workers Christopher McManus and Italian Franco… 08/03/2012
Bomb blast injures five in NigeriaFive people were injured in a bomb blast near a church in the Nigerian town of Suleja. Soldiers cordoned off the area maintaining a high profile presence… 20/02/2012
Nigerian police recapture SokotoPolice in Nigeria have managed to rearrest the suspected mastermind of the Christmas bombings. Kabiru Sokoto was first captured a month ago, but broke out… 11/02/2012
Nigeria still reeling from Friday’s bomb blastsNigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has visited the scene of last week’s carnage in which insurgents killed over 180 people. A coordinated series of bomb… 23/01/2012
Further explosions in Nigeria as death toll risesAs the clean up continues on the streets of Nigeria’s northern city of Kano after Friday’s gun and bomb attacks by Islamist insurgents two more explosions… 22/01/2012
Blasts rock Nigeria as death toll risesTwo bomb blasts have rocked the southern state of Bayelsa in Nigeria damaging a bridge and buildings but no one was killed. The explosions come on the back… 21/01/2012
Deadly blasts hit Nigeria’s second cityAt least seven people have been killed in a series of coordinated bombings and gun attacks in Nigeria’s second city. Islamist sect Boko Haram reportedly… 21/01/2012
Jonathan performs U-turn on Nigerian petrol pricesNigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has performed a major U-turn by announcing that petrol prices will be reduced after five days of mass protests. The… 16/01/2012
Nigerian oil unions suspend strikeFollowing days of protest, Nigeria is expecting a calmer weekend after unions suspended strike action over the government’s removal of a fuel subsidy. Tens… 13/01/2012
Unions threaten to cut Nigerian oil productionFour days into Nigeria’s general strike, the prospect is that the country may be exporting no oil come Sunday. The main oil union said it would shut down… 13/01/2012
Nigerian oil workers announce output shutdownNigeria is on the brink of even deeper economic disruption with oil workers threatening to shut down output of crude. The country is in the grip of a… 12/01/2012
Nigerian unions continue strike over oil subsidiesNigeria was deadlocked for a third straight day on Wednesday amid an ongoing general strike in protest at the scrapping of oil subsidies. The government… 11/01/2012
Nigeria fuel strike enters third dayNigeria’s fuel strike enters its third day as deadlock remains between the government and unions over the removal of a vital motor fuel subsidy. The dispute… 11/01/2012
Nigerians keep up petrol protestsIt is day two of a general strike in Nigeria called by unions to protest against the scrapping of petrol subsidies. Lagos’ multi-lane motorways are full of… 10/01/2012
Three dead in Nigeria fuel strike clashesThree people have been shot dead during a nationwide strike in Nigeria against the government’s decision to scrap fuel subsidies. The price of a litre of… 09/01/2012
Unions strike in Nigeria over fuel subsidy cutsTrade unions in Nigeria staged a nationwide strike on Monday over the government’s scrapping of fuel subsidies. The industrial action in Africa’s top… 09/01/2012
Fears of escalating conflict in NigeriaTensions are rising in Nigeria over economic and religious issues. At least one person has been killed in protests over the removal of a government subsidy… 04/01/2012
Coastal pollution fears after Nigeria oil spillThose living along Nigeria’s coastline said on Monday that officials are not doing enough to clean up last month’s deep sea oil spill. Thirteen coastal… 02/01/2012
Nigeria: 50 dead as emergency declaredNigeria announced a state of emergency in the northeast of the country on Saturday, as at least 50 people were killed during clashes between ethnic groups… 01/01/2012
Blasts in Nigeria following Christmas Day bombingsEyewitnesses say at least four people have died following an explosion near a mosque in the city of Maiduguri, in north-eastern Nigeria. The military have… 30/12/2011
Deadly shootings in NigeriaArmed gunmen have shot dead three people in Nigeria’s Plateau state. Nigeria is still reeling from Sunday’s church bombings that killed at least 40 people… 29/12/2011
Efforts underway to contain oil spill off Nigeria coastNigeria’s largest oil spill in more than a decade is being contained, according to the company Shell. Emergency measures have been brought in to try and… 27/12/2011
Nigeria vows to bring Christmas bombers to justiceGoodluck Jonathan has paid his respects to the almost 40 victims of Nigeria’s Christmas Day church blasts, vowing to bring the perpetrators to justice. The… 26/12/2011
Leaders condemn Nigeria bomb blastsEuropean leaders have condemned the multiple Christmas day bomb attacks in Nigeria that killed at least 40 people. Germany’s Foreign Minister Guido… 26/12/2011
Islamist extremists claim Nigerian church killingsIslamist extremists brought Christmas carnage to churches across Nigeria and have threatened more bloodshed in the days to come. In all there were five bomb… 25/12/2011
Boko Haram claims Nigerian church bombingsThe Islamist extremist group Boko Haram have said they carried out a wave of fatal Christmas Day bombings against churches in Nigeria, and have warned there… 25/12/2011
Death toll rises after Nigerian militant attacksThe death toll continues to rise after a series of deadly militant attacks in Nigeria. Initial reports said about 65 people died in bombings and shootings… 06/11/2011
‘Underwear bomber’ pleads guilty to all chargesA man accused of trying to blow up a US airliner with a bomb in his underwear has changed his plea to guilty. Nigerian Omar Farouk Abdulmutallab told a… 12/10/2011
Islamist group says it bombed UN’s Nigeria HQA radical Muslim group says it carried out Friday’s car bomb attack at UN headquarters in Nigeria, killing at least 18 people and injuring dozens more. The… 26/08/2011
Bomb attack on UN’s Nigerian HQ kills 18At least 18 people have been killed in Nigeria following an attack on the United Nation’s headquarters in the capital, Abuja. The Red Cross says another 11… 26/08/2011
At least 18 dead as bomb strikes UN office in NigeriaThe United Nations office in Nigeria’s capital Abuja has been hit by a car bomb. A local medical worker said at least 18 people had died, the police said the… 26/08/2011
Shell accepts responsibility for Nigeria oil spillsThe oil company Shell has accepted that a Nigerian community can seek compensation after two major oil spills three years ago. It follows decades of damage to… 04/08/2011
Nigerian bomb attack kills 25Some 25 people have been killed after suspected radical Islamists bombed a drinking spot in Maiduguri in Nigeria. The military says it suspects the Boko… 27/06/2011
Several dead in Nigeria blastSeveral people have been killed following a suspected suicide bomb attack on the Nigerian police headquarters in the capital Abuja. Officials say the… 16/06/2011
Suicide bomb attack in NigeriaA suspected suicide bomber has targeted a police station in the Nigerian capital Abuja. The explosion is the latest in a series of attacks against the… 16/06/2011
Nigeria’s Jonathan takes oath for first full termNigeria’s Goodluck Jonathan has been sworn in for his first full elected term as president. After the pomp and ceremony, he faces tough challenges – namely… 29/05/2011
Another vote another day of violence in NigeriaNigeria’s electoral process has once again been marred by violence as the country voted for 36 state governors. Bombs exploded in the north-eastern city of… 26/04/2011
Nigeria’s state elections to proceed despite violenceNigeria’s president says state elections will go ahead next week despite rioting which is feared to have killed hundreds of people across the mostly Muslim… 22/04/2011
