A judge on Tuesday dismissed fraud charges against a top Nigerian politician and his former deputy who were both accused of diverting more than $244 million in bank loans.

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BBC Sport, Lagos Nigeria Football Federation chairman Alhaji Aminu Maigari The future of the Nigeria Football Federation and its chairman Alhaji Aminu Maigari are unclear following Friday’s ruling in the capital Abuja.

Nigeria court: former dictator’s right-hand man to be hanged over killing of politician’s wife.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has concluded arrangements to pounce on five former governors sacked by the Supreme Court on Friday, SUNDAY LEADERSHIP has learnt.

Police say Boko Haram militants staged attack in Kano, Nigeria Jan 24, 2011 which left this market in ruins and left at lead 185 people dead Even though Islamic radicals in northern Nigeria continue attacks and are so far resisting offers of dialogue, analysts closely following the violence say negotiations will be essential in any solution.

Two men came out of nowhere as Greg Ock’s car idled in traffic in a remote Nigerian town.

Maj. Hamza Al-Mustapha leaves the court after a verdict in Lagos, Nigeria, on Monday, Jan.

Jos – Security agencies in Plateau State on Sunday carried out a “show of force” while the Special Task Force carried out aerial survey with a military helicopter in apparent demonstration of their preparedness to ward off any insurgence in the state.

Police say suspected members of a radical sect have attacked two more police stations, leaving two people dead in a north Nigerian city where 185 people were killed just over a week ago.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Children gather around a scorched police truck after an attack at a police station in Kano, Nigeria, last week.

The nationwide strike in Nigeria against a petrol price hike ended under rather curious circumstances on January 16.

A radical Islamist group in northern Nigeria has claimed responsibility for a series of deadly bombing attacks last week that left more than 200 people dead.

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Fighting between Islamic militants and armed forces in northern Nigeria during the last two days has killed twelve people, including a policeman, according to military and police officials.

THE Boko Haram sect has warned the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, to intervene in the release of its arrested members by the police, as failure to do so could lead to attacks and bombings of Sokoto, as it did in Kano on Friday, January 20, 2012.

In 1985, Nigeria was at the verge of being eliminated from the FIFA U-20 World Cup qualifiers after the Flying Eagles fell 0-3 to Cameroon in the first leg.

This undated photo provided by Teresa Ock, shows William Gregory Ock, 50, of Bowdon, Ga.

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Nigerians took to the streets to speak out against the removal of a fuel subsidy, including this protest in Lagos earlier this month.

People stand in front of a charred police headquarters on Jan. 21 after a series of bomb attacks in Nigeria’s northern city of Kano the previous day.

Goodluck Jonathan, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria addresses the 65th session of the General Assembly at the United Nations on September 24, 2010 in New York City.

In the wake of bombings that targeted churches, Christians are leaving the northern Nigerian city of Kano, a flashpoint of violence in recent years.

KANO, Nigeria: Gunmen have killed 15 people in a daylight attack near a northern Nigerian city where a radical sect last week killed 185 people, said a government official.

A U.S. citizen kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria’s oil-rich southern delta has been freed after a week in captivity, the U.S. Embassy said Friday.

Justice Walter Onnoghen said Friday that the governors of Bayelsa, Cross River, Kogi, Adamawa and Sokoto states should have left office in May 2011.

World Council of Churches – News NIGERIAN ARCHBISHOP ENCOURAGES INTER-RELIGIOUS SOLUTIONS TO VIOLENCE For immediate release: 26 January 2012 Methodist Archbishop Michael Kehinde Stephen of Ibadan, Nigeria has appealed to Christian and Muslim leaders worldwide to act together in the face of extremist violence that threatens to divide Nigerians along … (more)

Abubakar Shekau said in his most recent video message that Boko Haram did bomb police stations in the northern city, but that any civilian deaths were caused by At least 185 people were killed during the Kano attack last Friday.

The Security Council has strongly condemned the multiple terrorist attacks that occurred in Kano, Nigeria, in recent days, causing numerous deaths and injuries, and underlined the need to bring the perpetrators to justice.

ABUJA, Nigeria – Unknown gunmen abducted a German working for a construction company in a north Nigeria city where a radical Islamist sect last week killed 185 people, police said Thursday, underscoring the continuing unrest in the region.

A YEAR ago arrivals on the outskirts to Kano had to pass a sign forbidding alcohol consumption and banning women from riding on motorbikes.

Almost all access roads to the Ministry of Defence Ship House on Olusegun Obasanjo Way, as well as the Defence Headquarters on Moshood Abiola, Abuja were yesterday cordoned off following an alleged attempted attack on the ministry by members of the Boko Haram.

LAGOS, Nigeria — The chaos of Nigeria’s largest city of Lagos gets boiled down to prose as a narrator notes “how unpretty” its sprawl looks, with “its unplanned houses sprouting like weeds.” Another author describes the madness of the commute, how six roads meet and “there is no traffic light.” These vivid descriptions come from Nigeria’s new … (more)

The chaos of Nigeria’s largest city of Lagos gets boiled down to prose as a narrator notes “how unpretty” its sprawl looks, with “its unplanned houses sprouting like weeds.” Another author describes the madness of the commute, how six roads meet and “there is no traffic light.” These vivid descriptions come from Nigeria’s new generation of authors, … (more)

A protester holds a placard on the fourth day of a nationwide strike against the removal of the petrol subsidy in Lagos January 12, 2012.

KANO, Nigeria -; The angry youths piled on top of the burned-out truck near a blood-spattered police station Wednesday in Nigeria’s north, alternating praises for the radical Islamist sect that bombed the precinct and promising to kill any officer who returned.

MUSIC Musical genius, human rights activist, cultural legend, African icon – late Nigerian Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti encompassed multitudes, but to his 1980s-era guitarist Soji Odukogbe, he provided not only inspiration but a way into his music.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has sacked the chief of police and his six deputies, the presidency said on Wednesday, a week after the main suspect in a Christmas Day bomb attack escaped from police custody.

The United States has said it will partner Nigeria in the fight against terrorism, a phenomenon it described as similar to that being faced by Americans.

The International Federation of Journalists today condemned in the strongest terms possible the killing of Enenche AKogwu, a reporter with Channels Television station, who was gunned down in Kano, Nothern Nigeria, on Friday, 20 January, 2012.

Police officers walk past the ruins of a market outside the state police headquarters in Kano, Nigeria, on Tuesday, Jan.

By Prisca Sam-Duru LAGOS – Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, said, yesterday, that despite the fact that there is no formal break up of the country, the nation was already disintegrating due to the refusal of the government to embrace national dialogue.

The United States on Tuesday urged Nigerians to “stand united” after a wave of attacks that killed nearly 200 people in two northern cities.

” 1We are gravely concerned at the brutal and barbaric religious killings in Nigeria, which have thus far claimed many innocent lives,” ANC Chief Whip Mathole Motshekga said in a statement.

Attacks by Islamic militants in Nigeria that killed at least 256 people in the northern city of Kano are challenging President Goodluck Jonathan’s government a week after a nationwide strike paralyzed the economy.

The police in northeast Nigeria’s Bauchi State has confirmed that 11 people were killed on Sunday in early morning explosions and robbery attacks.

THE British, Canadian and other nations yesterday condemned the bomb blasts in Kano and other parts of Nigeria, in which scores of people died and many others injured.

LAGOS: Gunmen overnight raided a northern Nigerian town with a history of sectarian violence and killed at least nine people, a traditional leader said Sunday.

People in this north Nigeria city once wore surgical masks to block the dust swirling through its sprawling neighborhoods, but swarming children hawked the masks for pennies apiece Sunday to block the stench of death at a hospital overflowing with the dead following a coordinated attack by a radical Islamist sect.

Bauchi state commissioner of police Ikechukwu Aduba said Sunday that the attack happened overnight.

A 23-year-old Indian national was killed and six of his compatriots, including two children, were injured in a wave of coordinated bombings and gun attacks by an Islamic sect that left at least 162 people dead in northern Nigeria’s largest city of Kano.

The death toll from yesterday’s bomb blasts in the northern Nigerian city of Kano rose to at least 165, a human rights official involved in the rescue effort said.

KANO, Nigeria -; A bomb ripped through a regional police headquarters Friday in the largest city in Nigeria’s Muslim north, tearing away its roof and blowing out windows in a blast felt miles away.

A dark-coloured Honda Civic car , driven by a young man arrived at a checkpoint directly opposite the Zone One headquarters of the Nigeria Police, located along Bayero University Road, Kano at about 5pm yesterday.

A victim of Friday’s bomb blast and gun attacks lies in Murtala Muhammad specialist hospital in Kano, Nigeria Saturday, Jan.

KANO, Nigeria -; A coordinated series of bombings and attacks claimed by a radical Islamist sect left “many” dead and injured in northern Nigeria’s largest city, a Nigerian Red Cross spokesman said Saturday, as gunfire still echoed around some areas of the sprawling city.

Two journalists have been killed in Nigeria in different attacks amid continuing unrest in Africa’s most populous nation, authorities said Saturday.

The Nigerian authorities have imposed a 24-hour curfew in Kano after at least seven people were killed in co-ordinated bomb attacks in the northern Nigerian city.

Six hundred and sixty-nine billion, eighty-eight million naira was paid out last year by the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency to petrol import fraudsters.

At least six people were killed from explosions in the northern Nigerian city of Kano on Friday.

Assailants kidnapped a U.S. citizen leaving a bank in Nigeria’s oil-rich southern delta Friday, the first such attack targeting foreigners in the restive region for several months.

An explosion ripped through a zonal police headquarters Friday in the largest city in Nigeria’s Muslim north, causing unknown casualties, witnesses said.

Two bombs have exploded outside police stations in the largest city in Nigeria’s Muslim north, causing panic in the streets.

Single Sign-On: You can use Facebook account to log in to LasVegasSun.com. Nigeria’s government and labor unions failed to end a paralyzing nationwide strike over high gasoline costs, potentially sparking an oil production shutdown in a nation vital to U.S. oil supplies.

A boy jumping over a burning tyre on a street in Nigeria where protests against the removal of fuel subsidy have raged since 3 January.

THE Federal Government declared, yesterday, that it was not in any way prepared to withdraw soldiers who have been deployed to patrol the streets of Lagos and some other cities across the country until there was total peace in such areas.

In oil-rich Nigeria unseen waves of protest are splashing. The people are tired of the poverty, corruption and exploitation by the government and Western oil companies .

The suspected mastermind of the Christmas Day bombing of a Catholic church in Nigeria escaped custody after being arrested in the country’s capital, police acknowledged Tuesday – an embarrassment for a nation struggling to contain increasingly bloody sectarian attacks by a radical Islamist sect.

Anti-corruption officers in Nigeria have raided the offices of the PPPRA, the agency which regulates the sale of fuel in the West African nation.

Human rights groups accuse Nigerian authorities of trumping up charges against a labor union leader and member in Nigeria’s southeast.

A soldier guards a road during an operation to disperse people protesting against the removal of fuel subsidies in Lagos ns have been protesting the government’s removal of a fuel subsidy on Jan.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: Authorities in northeast Nigeria say members of a radical Muslim sect shot and killed five people in attacks amid continuing sectarian violence.

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, also decried the deployment of soldiers especially in Lagos and wondered whether it was part of the deal Labour reached with government.

LAGOS, Nigeria &#8212 An offshore rig exploring possible deep-water oil and gas fields off Nigeria’s coast for Chevron Corp.

Jonathan reinstated part of a subsidy on petrol, the scrapping of which was one of his key policies, and the u-turn may damage the credibility of a government already accused of being indecisive.

Several thousands of people thronged the Zaria road roundabout which is the entrance to Kano from the south and Abuja to protest, in what was a continuation of the protest against the removal of fuel subsidy by the federal government.

Armed security on Monday morning took over locations in Abuja where Occupy Nigeria protesters have camped for days as well as several other locations in the capital city.

Men grind pepper at a market in Obalende Lagos, Nigeria, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012.

By msnbc.com staff and news services LAGOS, Nigeria — Soldiers have barricaded key roads in Nigeria’s commercial capital of Lagos as the president offered a concession to halt fuel price protests that he said were being stoked by provocateurs seeking anarchy.Troops and police also blocked entrances to protest venues in Nigeria’s second-largest … (more)

After five days of strikes, protests and national paralysis over a sharp rise in the government-controlled price of fuel, Nigerians emerged from their homes this weekend to find the fragile calculus underpinning most people’s lives in the country further threatened.

ABUJA: Nigeria braced for more strikes on Monday after last-minute talks failed to resolve a dispute over fuel prices, though the country’s unions sought to call off street protests due to security concerns.It was unclear how much of an effect the call by unions to end protests would have, with a number of civil society and political groups having … (more)

Late-night negotiations Sunday between Nigeria’s government and union officials again failed to bring an end to a crippling nationwide strike over high fuel costs, as the oil-rich nation’s president alleged provocateurs could be attempting to hijack protests to make the country unstable.

Following the removal of subsidies on Premium Motor Spirit commonly referred to as petrol, by the Federal Government on January 1, 2012 and the ensuing protests that followed the announcement, it is clear that the Nigerian people are demanding for better accountability and transparency in the oil industry.