NIGERIA

A £10 million investment has been announced by a UK-backed funding program to create a Risk Sharing Backdrop Facility for Nigerian sustainable climate infrastructure.

A wealthy Nigerian politician and his family plotted to bring a street trader from Nigeria to Britain and pay him a few thousand pounds to donate his kidney for a transplant for his ill daughter, a British prosecutor told a London court on Monday.

Nigeria's former deputy senate president and his wife appeared in a London court on Tuesday ahead of their trial for organ harvesting, but his accused daughter was unable to attend as she is in hospital.

Shell said Friday it will pay 15 million euros to Nigerian farmers to compensate them for damage from pipeline leaks.

Three men managed to survive their eleven-day voyage on a ship's rudder.

A lawsuit accusing the British government of refusing to acknowledge that jailed Biafran separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu was the victim of extraordinary rendition to Nigeria began at a court in London on Tuesday.

Tech tycoon Jeff Bezos lashed out at a Pennsylvania liberal arts professor after the latter tweeted that she hoped Queen Elizabeth II died in "agony."

A U.S. appeals court on Friday said Exxon Mobil Corp and Royal Dutch Shell Plc affiliates may try to enforce part of a $1.8 billion arbitration award against Nigeria's state-run oil company, in a dispute concerning oil extraction near the African country's coastline.

OPEC secretary general Barkindo dies unexpectedly at 63

The woman was dropped at the morgue by her family after they declared her dead.

The violence has also spread into neighbouring Niger, Chad and Cameroon, prompting a regional military coalition to fight the militants.

While many seem to admire his shameless lifestyle dubbing him a "Fallopian Philantropist" and "Ovaries OverLord", others have questioned his sanity.

The death toll had risen from 59 after 10 more bodies were discovered in the countryside.

In the UK Africa Investment Summit 2020, Johnson made a clear pitch for business less than two weeks before Britain leaves the European Union.

Pastor Solomon says he is on a self-proclaimed mission to help humanity, creating the International Christian Centre for Missions (ICCM)

May is the latest in a long line of prime ministers who have evoked the potential of "Africa" for their own political purposes.

The dead bodies of two schoolgirls have been found following the attack by the Islamist group.

Some 50 young women remain missing after Boko Haram attacked the village of Dapchi in Northern Nigeria, with fears they have been kidnapped.

Authorities said that trafficked women in Spain had been forced through voodoo rituals including eating raw chicken hearts and having nails pulled out.

Emergency exit door comes loose and crashes on to runway as aircraft lands in Nigerian capital of Abuja.

An estimated 5,500 Nigerians are set to be flown back in the next three weeks after they spent months or years in cruel living conditions in Libyan detention centres.