A second girl believed to be among those kidnapped by Islamic extremists from a school in Nigeria has been rescued, the military said.

Oil giant Shell is “blatantly false” when it claims it is cleaning up spills that continue to destroy the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Nigerians, Amnesty International has said.

Boko Haram fighters attacked a village in Chad, the first known lethal attack in that country by the Nigerian militant group, which killed several people including a local chief, according to residents and security forces.

Boko Haram extremists have abducted about 30 people including eight Cameroonian girls and killed seven hostages in two bus hijackings in Cameroon and Nigeria, Cameroon residents and a Nigerian intelligence officer said.

Youths angry at the Nigerian government’s failure to fight Islamic extremists threw stones at President Goodluck Jonathan’s convoy in the eastern town of Jalingo, breaking windscreens and windows on several vehicles.

The Foreign Affairs Committee will meet with newly appointed Ambassador of Nigeria to Ireland today to look at the development of trade links between Ireland and Nigeria.

A wave of violence hours after Nigeria’s government announced a truce with Boko Haram raised doubts yesterday about whether more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the Islamist militants will be released, deflating the hopes of their parents.

The World Health Organisation urged nations worldwide to help stop the spread of Ebola as it declared the outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergency.

The World Health Organisation has urged nations to donate money and resources to stop the spread of ebola as it declared the outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergency.

The World Health Organisation has declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergency that requires an extraordinary response to stop its spread.

Two car bombs have exploded at a bustling bus terminal and market in Nigeria's central city of Jos, killing at least 46 people, according to police.

Villagers in an area of Nigeria where Boko Haram operates have killed and detained scores of the Islamic militants who were suspected of planning a fresh attack, residents and a security official said.

The search for missing schoolgirls in Nigeria is being supported by US surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft.

A new video from Nigeria’s Boko Haram terrorist network purports to show dozens of abducted schoolgirls, covered in jihab and praying in Arabic.

A new video issued by Boko Haram in the past hour claims to show some of the nearly 300 schoolgirls missing in Nigeria.

American officials have arrived in Nigeria to help look for more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has left Nigeria after human rights lawyers and civil rights activists demanded his arrest, a Sudanese diplomat has said.

The US embassy in Nigeria has issued an emergency warning to American citizens that an Islamist sect may be planning attacks on hotels in the capital.

A British and Italian hostage have died in Nigeria, during a failed attempt to free them from their captors.

A union representing 20,000 oil and gas workers in Nigeria has threatened to shut down all production starting on Sunday as part of a crippling nationwide strike over spiralling fuel prices.

A national strike paralysing Nigeria risks “anarchy”, the government has warned as demonstrations over spiralling fuel prices entered their third day Wednesday.

Protesters furious over spiralling petrol prices started fires on a motorway and at least one person was killed in the unrest after Nigeria’s government scrapped a subsidy that had kept fuel costs down for more than 20 years.

Angry mobs of protesters stopped garage owners from selling fuel today while others lit a bonfire on a major highway in an attempt to thwart the Nigerian government’s removal of a cherished consumer subsidy which had kept petrol affordable for more than two decades.

NIGERIA lacks competent leaders to tackle its security problems, a former military ruler said yesterday, after Christmas Day bomb attacks on churches by Islamist militants that killed more than two dozen people.

The Nigerian government is assuring people that a phone call will not kill them.

The Nigerian government have rescinded their decision to ban the national football team from all competitions, just ahead of a FIFA deadline.

FIFA have demanded that the Nigerian government withdraw their ban on the Super Eagles playing international football for the next two years and given them until Monday to comply.

More than 200 people have died after renewed religious violence between Christians and Muslims in central Nigeria, it emerged today.

Nigeria’s parliament empowered Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to run Africa’s most populous nation in place of an ill and absent president, striving for a political end to a crisis that ground the government to a virtual halt and triggered the resumption of an insurgency in the vital oil sector.

Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell is set to sell oilfields worth up to $5bn (€3.5bn) in Nigeria as part of a shake up of operations in the country, it was reported today.

I REFER to an article in your edition of March 31 headed “Pamela’s battle”.

WE write as a concerned mother and daughter in relation to the Government’s decision in the Izevbekhai case (November 19/December 11).

A Nigerian mother and her two young children are to be deported from Dublin later today.

The Nigerian government filed a lawsuit against drugs giant Pfizer asking for €5.16bn in damages over allegations the firm conducted trials that led to deaths and disabilities among children.

The trial of a Nigerian militant leader charged with treason was delayed today as prosecutors asked for him to be tried in his absence after he disrupted the hearing.

Militants in Nigeria are planning a major new wave of attacks and kidnappings in the next few days that could include up to 20 simultaneous bombings across the country’s oil-rich delta region, US diplomats warned today.

Angry villagers in Nigeria who took over three Shell oil platforms in the volatile Niger Delta have agreed to end their siege and allow operations to resume.

ELITE Irish troops with the UN were involved in the capture and detention yesterday of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, while he was trying to flee from Nigeria.

Armed militants in Nigeria vowed yesterday to cut daily oil exports from this West African nation’s troubled delta region by another one million barrels by the end of March, as OPEC nations prepared for a strategy meeting in Vienna this week.

Nigerian militants have released six foreign oil workers they deemed “low value”, but held on to two Americans and one Briton and threatened crippling new attacks aimed at cutting off all oil production in Nigeria.

HEALTH authorities in China and Indonesia each reported a woman killed by a deadly strain of bird flu, and the virus has spread to another new country, Azerbaijan.

Five men jailed for their opposition to a gas pipeline today called for a public boycott of all petrol stations owned by Shell and Statoil.

LAST week there was trouble outside the Nigerian embassy in Dublin as people protested over difficulties in securing passports for which they have been grossly overcharged. Up to 70 people were protesting outside the embassy at Leeson Park.