Nigeria and Equitorial Guinea have formalized their efforts for more peaceful trades, as the countries' presidents met last Tuesday in Malabo, Equitorial Guinea, and signed a joint agreement on Maritime security patrols.
Big company Shell is called to take its responsibility over the damage caused by the oil spill. A couple of Nigerian communities filed a damage action holding Royal Dutch Shell responsible over multiple oil spills in the Niger Delta.
On Monday, Bloomberg confirmed that telecommunications company, Etisalat, is suing MTN over its purchase of Visafone Communications, an internet provider in Nigeria.
The Nigerian Navy uncovered an illegal oil storage site at an old ship builders yard owned by the Federal Government. Authorities are yet to find out who is behind the illegal operations.
Legal practitioners in Nigeria are lobbying the passage of a law that will protect whistleblowers to encourage their participation in the country's legal system.
Despite lack of progress in the search for the missing schoolgirls, President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered new investigations in hopes that this time, they would be able to rescue the girls.
Nigerian Minister claims that fifty-five government officials and businessmen stole public funds costing 1.34 trillion naira (US$6.8 billion) over a period of seven years.
Niger opposition leader Hama Amadou was arrested when he flew in to the capital on Saturday as security forces blocked off the airport, a year after he fled the country when sought by investigators probing a child trafficking ring.
N'DJAMENA Military chiefs from the Lake Chad region have finalised details of the deployment of a joint force to fight Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, designating three command posts in Nigeria and Cameroon, military sources said on Saturday.
About 12,000 Nigerians are being repatriated over the next three to four days after seeking refuge in Cameroon from attacks by Islamist militant group Boko Haram, Nigeria's state emergency agency said on Wednesday.
Cameroon officials have arrested three suspects carrying a bag containing improvised explosive devices in the northern town of Maroua where a spate of suspected Boko Haram suicide attacks killed at least 40 last week, sources said on Friday.
A year after declaring his caliphate, it is clear that the secret of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's success is the army and state he has built from the remnants of Saddam Hussein's military, and the allegiance he has won or coerced from alienated Sunni Muslims in Iraq, Syria, and beyond.
N'DJAMENA Chadian lawmakers voted on Wednesday to indefinitely extend the mandate of troops participating in a regional effort to combat Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist militants until the joint mission was completed.
The final stage of Nigeria's election began on Saturday with voting for powerful state governors, two weeks after a presidential vote paved the way for the country's first democratic transfer of the top job.
Militant group Boko Haram is "the worst enemy of Islam" and will be defeated because West African Muslims reject its violent actions and harsh interpretation of the Koran, Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou said on Friday.
Nigeria's opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) declared an election victory on Tuesday for former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari and said Africa's most populous nation was witnessing history with its first democratic transfer of power.
"Boko Haram is finished" shouted a jubilant soldier from Niger as his comrades danced and waved their rifles in the air to celebrate the liberation of the northern Nigerian town of Damasak.
Nigeria has brought in hundreds of mercenaries from South Africa and the former Soviet Union to give its offensive against Boko Haram a shot in the arm before a March 28 election, according to regional security, defense and diplomatic sources.
About ten Chadian soldiers died in fighting to free two towns in northern Nigeria previously held by Boko Haram, the first gains against the militants made in a joint offensive launched with Niger at the weekend, military sources said on Monday.
