An explosion occurred outside a government building in Nigeria's southern oil hub of Port Harcourt today, according to a reporter on the scene.

Militants in Nigeria today released their last remaining foreign hostages, setting free two American oil-industry workers and one Briton after more than five weeks in captivity.

SEVERAL people died in election violence in Nigeria’s oil-rich delta as President Olusegun Obasanjo’s party stretched its lead in results of parliamentary polls.