The Benin Monarch, Oba Erediauwa, has formally endorsed  Governor Adams Oshiomhole for the July 14 governorship election.

Former governor of oil-rich Delta State, James Ibori is to spend the next 13 years in a British prison.

The Congress for Progressive Change’s presidential candidate in the 2011 general elections, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd)

A crude oil pipeline owned by Italian oil and gas group Eni was attacked on Friday.

The leader of a radical Islamist sect, Boko Haram, has challenged the president Jonathan

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday filed a notice of appeal before the Court of Appeal Lagos division,

Suspected members of Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram have killed four people and a large undetonated bomb was found in Kano on Monday

Mali's president submitted his resignation letter from one of his hiding places since last month's coup.

The administration of the former Governor of Bayelsa State, Mr. Timipre Sylva, has been accused of mismanaging the N660.45bn it received from the Federation Account from 2007 to 2011.

Nigeria Prisons Service, NPS, said 36 of the 72 prisoners who escaped from Koton Karfe Prison in Kogi State, on February 17, have so far been re-arrested.

Fraud charges against Former Managing Director of the Intercontinental Bank Plc (now Access Bank), Dr. Erastus Akingbola has been dismissed.

Nigeria has again pushed back the timeframe for selling off state-owned power assets, its privatisation agency said on Monday.

Nigeria's super rich are no strangers to conspicuous consumption as expressed in thier opulent lifestyles.

NATIONAL Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives in Delta State has commenced an indefinite industrial action strike.

Nigeria has given airlines British Airways (BA) and Virgin Atlantic 30 days to lower fares.

Senate in its ongoing probe of the executive has uncovered another contract scam in the Federal Capital Development Agency (FCDA).

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has nominated Major General Charles Airhiavbere (rtd) as it governorship candidate.

Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate Liyel Imoke on Sunday emerged winner of Saturday’s governorship poll in Cross River.

A suspect held over a 2010 dual car bombing in Nigeria’s capital that killed 12 people died in prison despite repeated calls for medical treatment, his lawyer said Sunday, as the militant group he allegedly belonged to blamed his death on his jailers.

Police in Kwale, Delta state, at the weekend, shot and killed a secondary school student and arrested two orders on charges of kidnapping a seven-year-old girl.

In response to recent deportation of Nigerians by South Africa, 28 South Africans were refused entry into Nigeria on sunday.

After nearly five years of expectations, the Federal Government will finally hold an oil licensing bid round this year, Director of Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Mr. Osten Olorunsola, has given a firm assurance.

Soldiers shot and killed three suspected members of a radical Islamist sect Monday in Nigeria's northeast, as gunmen killed two police officers elsewhere in the north, authorities said.