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The international police agency Interpol has arrested Nigeria’s former attorney general and justice minister, in connection with a corruption scandal over an oil deal worth more than $1bn (£770m). Mohammed Adoke’s lawyer confirmed the arrest in Dubai but said it was based on an expired warrant. Mr Adoke has in the past said he did […]

A Nigerian court has thrown out a case brought by a celebrity photographer who accused a flamboyant pastor of raping her. In September Busola Dakolo accused Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo from the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly of raping her twice. She said that it happened more than 20 years ago, before she turned 18. Nigerian media […]

Nigeria police have freed 500 students from an Islamic school in the north of the country, some of whom were in chained up, in the third such incident in less than a month, Report Focus News news agency reports quoting police sources. This comes two days after 67 people were found shackled in another school […]

The Nigerian authorities have charged a political activist with money laundering and insulting the president. Omoyele Sowore was arrested last month after organising street protests against the government. A few hours ago, a court in the capital Abuja ordered his immediate release. But Mr Sowore’s lawyer, Femi Falana, said efforts were continuing to get him […]

The official number of people who have died since a building collapsed in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos earlier this week has risen to 20. Lagos state health commissioner Jide Idris released the number in a statement but did not disclose how many children are among the dead. The four-storey building contained a school which had […]

With the death toll at 11 people and hours after the tragic collapse of a building that housed a school in Lagos, Nigeria, the emergency services have called off the search for survivors. Rescue workers managed to pull out 50 people at the site which had structural defects and was marked for demolition. It housed […]

10 people have died and many more are feared trapped after a building containing a school collapsed in the Nigerian city of Lagos. The school, which was on the top floor of the four-storey building in Ita Faji on Lagos Island, had more than 100 pupils, according to reports. About 40 pupils had been pulled […]

Nigerians went to the polls on Saturday to choose governors in 29 of 36 states in Africa’s largest democracy amid reports of heavy military deployment and attacks against electoral facilities in a few areas. The election comes two weeks after the presidential vote in which incumbent Muhammadu Buhari won a second term. It was expected […]

WARRI — More than 50 people are missing after a leaking oil pipeline exploded and caused a stampede in southern Nigeria, a local official said Saturday. The blast early Friday caused massive oil spillage in the Nembe kingdom in Bayelsa state, the Nembe Chiefs Council spokesman, Chief Nengi James-Eriworio, told The Associated Press. The Nembe […]

Nigeria’s electoral commission (Inec) has said that its officials were subjected to “threats, harassment, intimidation, assault, abduction and even rape” during last week’s presidential election. The commission said it “decried the high level of violence in a few places” but did not provide any further details in its statement about the conduct of the polls. […]