Nigeria

MADALLA, Nigeria— At a Nigerian Catholic church where a terror attack killed 35 people on Christmas, women tried to clean the sanctuary ahead of Mass on Monday while one man wept uncontrollably amid the debris. Outside St. Theresa Catholic Church, crowds gathered among the burned-out cars in the dirt parking lot, angry over the attack […]

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI’s Christmas pleas for peace around the world were brutally ignored in Nigeria, where an explosion Sunday claimed by Muslim extremists ripped through a Catholic church during Mass. SEE ALSO: Zuckerberg Has Grown-Up Plans For Facebook Authorities say at least 25 people were killed by the explosion at the […]

LAGOS, Nigeria — A radical Muslim sect responsible for attacks that left more than 100 people dead in northeast Nigeria this week could bomb three luxury hotels frequented by foreigners in the oil-rich nation’s capital, the U.S. Embassy warned Sunday. The unusually specific warning from U.S. diplomats identified possible targets of the sect known locally […]

ABUJA, Nigeria — A car loaded with explosives crashed into the main United Nations’ building in Nigeria’s capital and exploded Friday, killing at least 18 people in one of the deadliest assaults on the international body in a decade. A radical Muslim sect blamed for a series of attacks in the country claimed responsibility for […]

ABUJA, Nigeria – A car laden with explosives detonated outside the United Nations’ main office in Nigeria’s capital Friday, blowing part of the concrete structure into shards and killing an undetermined number of people. Witnesses told The Associated Press that a sedan broke through the exit at the U.N. compound, ramming through two separate gates […]

Recent Rice University Business School graduate Idris Bello has partnered with a campaign called “Libraries Across Africa” which seeks to establish low-cost infrastructure for libraries and grant Africans with more books and Internet access. Bello, who arrived in the U.S. from Nigeria in 2004, has been influential in creating a number of programs aimed to […]

NIGERIA – Bello Maasaba, a Nigerian faith healer has had 107 wives and 165 children. Maasaba’s polygamist ways led to him being in prison after he refused an Islamic Court’s order to divorce all but four of his wives. The New York Daily News reports: The Islamic faith healer, now 87, is currently wed to […]

BAUCHI, Nigeria — At least 500 people died in religious rioting that followed Nigeria’s presidential election, a civil rights group said Sunday, as volatile state gubernatorial elections loom this week. Meanwhile, police in the northern state of Bauchi said at least 11 recent college graduates who helped run polling stations as part of the country’s […]

BRAZIL – In Brazil millions of residents are swooning over President Barack Obama, partially because his racial background and story makes him easy to relate to. RELATED: Kendra Wilkinson’s great debut on Dancing with the Stars The Washington Post reports: “In Brazil, we have all kinds of culture, people, and our inner identity comes from […]

TEXAS — Uche Okafor, a defender on two World Cup teams for Nigeria who later played for the Kansas City Wizards in the U.S., has been found dead in his Dallas-area home, police said Friday. He was 43.

(NIGERIA-Talking Points Memo) Halliburton will pay Nigeria $35 Million to settle a bribery dispute with its former CEO, Dick Cheney, the ex-Vice President of The United States Of America. Talking Points Memo reports: US oil services group Halliburton agreed to pay Nigeria 35 million dollars to settle a bribery dispute which led to charges being […]

Nigeria — Dick Cheney will be charged by Nigerian authorities in a bribery case involving his former employer, Halliburton according to the Huffington Post: An arrest warrant “will be issued and transmitted through Interpol,” said Godwin Obla, the prosecuting counsel at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Nigeria. The charges center on an alleged […]