Riots broke out again in Nigeria’s Muslim north today, 24 hours after protesters set fire to churches and homes of ruling party supporters when national election results showed that the Christian candidate had won.

A Nigerian military attack using heavily armed soldiers and aerial bombing runs has killed as many as 150 people in the oil-rich southern delta, a human rights activist said today.

HUNDREDS of people were burned alive yesterday when fuel from a vandalised pipeline exploded in Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos, emergency workers said.

At least 200 people were killed and many more injured after a pipeline carrying petroleum products exploded today in Nigeria’s largest city of Lagos.

Hundreds of children have died from an upsurge in measles cases in Nigeria, despite a series of local vaccination campaigns aimed at combating the disease, health authorities said yesterday.

At least 105 villagers in rural Nigeria died when petrol gushing from a vandalised pipeline exploded as they tried to scavenge the fuel, Red Cross authorities and witnesses said today.

UP TO 40 people were killed in an explosion which demolished three apartment blocks and tore open a bank in central Lagos yesterday, the Lagos state government said.

Despite growing public anger, Nigeria’s army today appeared to reject a plan to move a weapons dump from the crowded Lagos suburb where more than 1,000 people are missing, feared dead, after a series of huge explosions.