Nigeria has set its sights on making multibillion-dollar oil deals with China amid peace moves with militants.
Nigeria hopes peace can bring big China deals
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Lawmakers in the west African country — one of the world’s top producers of oil — are crafting new money-making changes for its state oil corporation, as officials negotiate multibillion-dollar oil deals with China.
Nigerian police: Thousands detained in raid on Islamic camp
Police in northern Nigeria on Saturday detained almost 4,000 members of an Islamic community, claiming the group posed a potential violent threat, the police commissioner in the Nigerian state of Niger told CNN.
Victims of Nigerian clashes buried in mass graves
About 780 people killed in clashes with Islamic militants in the northeast Nigerian area of Maiduguri have been buried in mass graves, an aid official said Monday. The Red Cross urged an environmental agency to bury them as soon as possible because of the dangers of so many bodies being exposed to northern Nigeria’s heat, said Mohammed Zannah Barma, secretary of the Red Cross in Borno state.
700 die in fighting in northern Nigeria
Some 700 people have been killed in clashes with Islamic militants in Nigeria, a military commander told CNN.
Big Tobacco Sets Its Sights on Africa
It’s easy enough to buy a smoke at Isa Yakubu’s grocery store on a busy street in Lagos, Nigeria. Never mind if you don’t have much money
Lawyer: Leader of Nigerian militants accepts amnesty offer
The imprisoned leader of the Nigerian militant group MEND has accepted an unconditional amnesty offer from the government, his lawyer said Friday.
Shell to pay $15.5 million to settle Nigeria claims
Oil company Royal Dutch Shell will pay $15.5 million to settle a lawsuit against its Nigerian subsidiary by the family of executed Nigerian environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and other dissidents, the plaintiffs announced Monday. The lawsuit accuses Shell of complicity in the 1995 hanging of Saro-Wiwa and the killings or persecution of other environmental activists by the military government that ruled the country at the time
Abuse of child ‘witches’ on rise, aid group says
Christian Eshiett was a rambunctious pre-teen who spent a lot of time cavorting with his friends in southern Nigeria. He would skip school and run away from home for days, frustrating his grandfather, who oversaw the boy’s care. “I beat him severely with canes until they broke, yet he never shed a tear,” said Eshiett Nelson Eshiett, 76
Nigerian militants promise to free British hostages
A Nigerian militant group promised Sunday to release a sick British hostage held since September 2008. “Based on the milk of human kindness and compassion, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) will release Mr. Robin Barry Hughes on health and age considerations very soon,” the group said in a written statement