An explosion at a medical school in Nigeria’s northern city of Kano has killed at least eight people and wounded 12.

A car bomb exploded killing four people in a Christian part of Nigeria’s second biggest city Kano, police said.

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Gunmen attacked a camp for a construction company in rural northern Nigeria, killing a guard and kidnapping seven foreign workers from Britain, Greece, Italy, and Lebanon, authorities said.

Witnesses in northern Nigeria’s largest city say gunmen suspected to belong to a radical Islamic sect have opened fire on polio vaccine drives in the city, killing at least 12 people.

A Pakistani Cabinet minister has today offered a US$100,000 reward for the death of the US filmmaker whose movie features a depiction of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed.

A German engineer kidnapped in the Nigerian city of Kano about five months ago has been killed in a failed rescue attempt, officials say.

One person was killed as Nigerian soldiers raided a suspected hideout of members of a radical Islamist sect, the country’s military said.

At least six people were killed today in an attack on a university campus in northern Nigeria where Catholics were holding a worship service.

Journalists in Nigeria, already the target of threats and bribes, face a new danger after a radical Islamist sect bombed the offices of a major newspaper and vowed to “hit the media hard” in Africa’s most populous nation.

Suspected members of a radical Islamist sect attacked a town in north Nigeria and fought soldiers while trying to make their escape, leaving at least nine of them dead, the military said.

Police in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, which is reeling from a wave of attacks that killed at least 160 people last week, said they found eight cars packed with bombs yesterday.

Eleven people have been killed in an attack in Nigeria's north state of Bauchi.

At least 143 people have been killed in co-ordinated bomb attacks in north Nigeria's largest city.

A bomb ripped through a regional police headquarters today in the largest city in Nigeria’s Muslim north, tearing away its roof and blowing out windows in a blast felt miles away.

UNIONS yesterday suspended their nationwide strike in Nigeria, hours after president Goodluck Jonathan partially reinstated subsidies to keep petrol prices low and deployed soldiers in the streets to halt widening demonstrations.

NIGERIAN police and protesters clashed and three people were shot dead as tens of thousands demonstrated nationwide over fuel price hikes and a general strike shut down the country.

Two Nigerian soldiers who kidnapped Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel’s father at one point demanded a $4bn (€2.77bn) ransom they considered “chicken change” for the team.

John Obi Mikel’s father has been found after being kidnapped and held for 10 days, according to reports.

At least 800 people were killed in post election violence that swept across northern Nigeria as it became clear that a northern candidate would not succeed in unseating the southern president, an international human rights group said.

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.

Rioting erupted in Nigeria’s Muslim north today as official election results likely to keep a Christian leader in charge were being prepared for release.

A British Airways plane made an emergency stop in Nigeria after pilots detected fumes in the cockpit, the airline said 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.

Troops in northern Nigeria battled gunmen who had been blamed for an attack on a police station in which 12 policemen and a civilian died.

WRECKED.

MUSLIMS fled this southeast Nigerian city and corpses still smouldered in its streets as two days of sectarian violence that killed more than 50 people subsided.

BIRD flu poses a major threat to Africa’s fight against its AIDS epidemic, challenging overburdened healthcare systems and stretching economies already hit by the impact of HIV, the UN’s AIDS chief said yesterday.

A NIGERIAN official has warned that bird flu was fast spreading in the country, and a UN expert said the strain may have surfaced in a second African country.

A Nigerian official has warned that bird flu was fast spreading in the country, and a UN expert said the strain may have surfaced in a second African country.

A deadly strain of bird flu may have emerged in eight of Nigeria’s 36 states, authorities said yesterday, amid concerns the virus had been spreading long before officials knew it was in Africa.

Health authorities in Nigeria today prepared to screen dozens of people who worked on a farm hit by a deadly bird flu strain, amid fears the virus may have for the first time in Africa spread to humans.

AFRICA'S first outbreak of a deadly strain of bird flu has spread to at least four farms, Nigerian officials said, as the continent braced itself for a possible epidemic.

THE deadly H5N1 bird flu virus has been detected on a large commercial chicken farm in Nigeria - the first reported outbreak in Africa, the World Organisation for Animal Health said yesterday.

A Nigerian jetliner carrying 110 people – including dozens of school children- crashed in stormy weather today as it approached the southern city of Port Harcourt, killing at least 103 who were on board.

A Nigerian jetliner carrying 110 people – including dozens of school children - crashed in stormy weather today as it approached the southern city of Port Harcourt, killing at least 103 who were on board.

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.

A CHOLERA outbreak in the northern Nigerian city of Kano has killed at least 42 people and infected more than 600 others, hospital officials said.

A cholera outbreak in the northern Nigerian city of Kano has killed at least 42 people and infected more than 600 others, hospital officials said today.

A general strike in Nigeria which has helped push world oil prices to record highs entered its second day today, as unions continued protest over the rising cost of fuel at home.

THE discovery of Botswana’s first polio case in 13 years is a wake-up call to other African countries believed to be free of the crippling disease, United Nations officials warned, amid a massive immunisation campaign.

NIGERIA’S president declared a state of emergency yesterday in the state of Plateau, sacking the governor and dissolving the state legislature following Muslim and Christian fighting that has killed hundreds.

Nigeria’s civilian president declared sweeping state of emergency powers today in violence-torn central Plateau state, replacing the elected governor with a former military general and dissolving the state legislature.

RELIGIOUS anger was mounting in Nigeria after two days of rioting between Muslims and Christians in the northern city of Kano left morgues overflowing and thousands homeless.