United Nations (CNN) — The seizure in Nigeria of a shipment of arms from Iran, has been reported to the United Nations Security Council, Nigerian Foreign Minister Odein Ajumogobia said Tuesday. Ajumogobia said the issue would be reviewed by a...

For a few brief weeks this autumn, there were hopes that the long-running civil war in the Niger Delta in southeastern Nigeria might finally be coming to an end. President Umaru Mousa Yar’Adua announced an amnesty deal for rebels and promised...

Twenty-three people burned to death when a bus carrying mourners to a funeral collided with a truck on a road in southwest Nigeria, police said Monday. Killed were the 18 people in the bus traveling to the funeral in Okeho city, as well as five others...

A week of brutal violence in northern Nigeria has spurred questions over whether an obscure homegrown religious fundamentalist group represents a broader threat to national security in Africa’s most populous nation. More than 800 people were...