Mar 8th, 2010 · Violence in three mostly Christian villages that left more than 200 people dead Sunday appeared to be reprisal attacks following January unrest in the town of Jos — when most of the victims were Muslims, a Red Cross spokesman said.
Mar 7th, 2010 · More than 200 bodies — many of them women and children — lay in the streets of a central Nigerian town after a renewed spate of Christian-Muslim violence, witnesses said Sunday, just months after religious violence tore through a nearby city and left hundreds dead.
Mar 4th, 2010 · Brains, beauty and beats collide in the music of Nigerian-born newcomer Nneka. A small woman with an afro bigger than most, the singer was warm and engaging from the start of one of her first U.S. radio appearances.
Feb 25th, 2010 · Two new books this week tell of fateful trips to England — though of very different sorts. Little Bee by Chris Cleave is the tale of a Nigerian teenager's desperate attempt to seek asylum in Britain, and The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton is about a young girl's reunion with her homeland after many years away.
Feb 24th, 2010 · Nigeria's ill President Umaru Yar'Adua returned home Wednesday to his West African nation after three months abroad receiving treatment for a heart condition at a Saudi Arabian hospital. Abdullah Aminchi, Nigeria's ambassador to Saudi Arabia, told The Associated Press that Yar'Adua returned home on a flight that arrived in Abuja, the country's capital.
Feb 19th, 2010 · NPR News Investigation: Intelligence officials suspect that American-born radical imam Anwar al-Awlaki may have lured Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to Yemen for training by al-Qaida operatives before the young Nigerian tried to bring down a Detroit-bound trans-Atlantic airliner on Dec. 25. A look at the cleric and his reach.
Feb 19th, 2010 · The junta named a new leader as soldiers announced on state TV that their group was in charge after kidnapping President Mamadou Tandja under a hail of gunfire. The group says it wants to restore democracy to the uranium-rich country, but some fear it may try to keep power.
Jan 21st, 2010 · A parade of national security officials appeared before several Senate panels Wednesday. They were explaining how a 23-year-old Nigerian man with explosives sewn into his underwear boarded a flight to Detroit on Christmas Day. And while the Obama administration was dealing with questions from Senators, they were confronted with a new issue. They now have to find another nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration.