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ABUJA, Nigeria, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Nigeria has issued international arrest warrants for two former government leaders under former President Olusegun Obasanjo, police said Thursday.
Cadbury Nigeria Plc (CADBURY NL), the Nigerian unit of Cadbury Plc, fell in Lagos trading after it forecast a loss- after tax of 821.7 million naira ($5.5 million) in the three months through March.
A rise in insecticide resistant mosquitoes has become the latest threat to combating malaria in Nigeria, where roughly up to 300,000 people die each year from the killer disease, experts have warned.
Nairobi/Abuja - Nigerian police carry out hundreds of extra-judicial killings each year without fear of punishment, an Amnesty International report released Wednesday claimed. Police don't only kill people by shooting them; they also torture them to...
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Nigeria’s economy expanded 7.07 percent in the third quarter of this year compared with 6.13 percent in the same quarter a year ago as the contribution of oil rose, the National Bureau of Statistics said.
Amnesty International has exposed the shocking level of unlawful police killings in Nigeria in a new report.
Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Nigeria’s foreign currency reserves rose 3 percent in the month through Dec. 3 as oil prices and production improved. Reserves climbed to $44.04 billion from $42.7 billion the month before, the Central Bank of Nigeria , based in the capital, Abuja, said on its Web site today.
Police in Nigeria are getting away with shocking levels of brutality and unlawful killings of civilians, largely because the law allows them to shoot suspects at will, which officers abuse to justify, commit and cover-up murder, Amnesty International said in a new report issued today.
Nigeria: Amnesty International says police "kill at will"
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Nigerian police officers kill hundreds of people illegally each year, often citing a law that allows them to shoot suspects escaping arrest, Amnesty International said.
Nigeria's ruling party said Thursday that President Umaru Yar'Adua, undergoing treatment in Saudi Arabia, for a heart condition, was still fit to lead to the country.
Police in Nigeria carry out hundreds of extra-judicial killings every year and only those who can afford to pay bribes can guarantee their safety from execution or torture, Amnesty International said Wednesday.
Beware of police roadblocks in Nigeria: If you cannot pay a bribe, you can end up dead, according to an Amnesty International report published Wednesday.
Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua, undergoing treatment for a heart condition in Saudi Arabia, is responding to treatment but only his doctor can say when he will return, a minister said on Wednesday.
ENUGU, Nigeria, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Doctors at a Nigerian hospital say they are being overwhelmed with corpses of young men brought in by police, the BBC reported Tuesday.
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) --Oceanic Bank International Plc reported a loss of 286.04 billion naira ($1.9 billion) for the nine months through September, the company said in a statement to the Nigerian Stock Exchange today.
