NIGERIA

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and the Sultan of Sokoto, the spiritual leader of the country's 70 million Muslims, met two days after Boko Haram's Christmas day attacks.

Company officials claimed victory over the spill on Christmas day, citing the company's robust response brought a swift end to the spill first reported two weeks ago.

At least 39 people are reported dead in Nigeria after a series of church bombings during holiday services and one suicide bomber attack by Muslim extremists left a horrifying mark on Christmas Day. As world leaders condemn the attacks, Nigerians ask why President Jonathon failed to prevent them, with some youths rioting and setting up burning barricades in the street.

Images from an underwater vehicle proved the company's original fears that the 40,000 barrel leak sprung during the transfer of crude oil from a floating storage facility to an awaiting cargo tanker.

Nigerian officials said they expect oil leaked from a Royal Dutch Shell offshore well to reach the country's shores Thursday. Shell officials suspect half of the estimated 40,000 barrels of oil leaked in the Atlantic this week have already naturally dissipated or evaporated.

Interest in arctic oil has climbed in recent years when industry, government and third party researchers independently made realizations that the amount of recoverable world-class oil deposits was greater than previously thought. That has yet to be properly tested with a drill bit.

For most people, the holiday season is a time spent with family and friends, but for many it can be a time of intense loneliness. Scammers count on that.

Nigerian police arrested 14 suspected members of Islamic militant group Boko Haram following a fatal shoot-out in the city of Kano over the weekend.

Despite vast oil reserves, Nigeria has been plagued by poor infrastructure, decades of official corruption and mismanagement of its economy.

The World Trade Organization closed its biennial ministerial conference on Saturday with its chairman citing an improved atmosphere in the 153-member club but no concrete moves forward on the Doha round of world trade talks.

Nigeria's bourse is to list its first exchange traded fund (ETF) on Monday, a South African gold-backed fund that will broaden the exchange's range of products beyond equities and bonds, the stock exchange said on Friday.

People across the globe are increasingly concerned about unemployment according to a survey conducted by BBC World Service.

On Tuesday the Obama administration said it will use foreign aid to promote and protect LGBT rights around the world.

Gordhan said that the debt crisis in Europe is harming economies thousands of miles way.

Two pastors in Nigeria claimed they were raped by prostitutes when on a mission to a popular brothel.

Boko Haram, Nigeria's militant Islamic insurgency, is now an emerging threat to the United States, a new congressional report says.

Same-sex marriages and homosexual activities were officially banned by the senate in Nigeria on Tuesday, placing criminal penalties of up to 14 years in prison on same-sex relationships.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has sacked the head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), a spokesman said on Wednesday, giving no reason.

Nigerian politicians are funding members of a radical Islamist sect responsible for dozens of shootings and bombings this year in the north and capital of Africa's most populous nation, the state security service (SSS) said on Monday.

According to reports by the WORLD Health Organisation, there has been a four-fold increase in polio cases in Nigeria.

Half of the country’s population is Christian, although some of them incorporate the practice of Vodun (voodoo) in their rituals.