Nigeria

Security agencies stepping up search for kidnappers and abducted foreigners.

Kalashnikov-wielding assailants storm Otite town's Deeper Life Bible Church service and open fire on worshippers and pastor.

Wide-ranging video by Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau dismissed by Jonathan as blackmail.

Jihadist terror group storms factory and police station in Nigerian city of Maiduguri.

Migration Watch accuses coalition government of 'bottling out' in the face of pressure from university heads and business leaders.

Nigerians scooping up fuel from petrol tanker spill are victims of explosion in the Niger Delta.

Ansar Dine Islamists destroy two tombs as part of icon-smashing campaign.

Sambo Dasuki takes on national security adviser role with three-week deadline by president to finish off Islamic terror group.

Death toll rises to 27 in the latest incidents of clashes between the security forces and Islamic militants in the northern parts of Nigeria.

Birth control legislation may be brought in as Africa's most populous country faces demographic nightmare of 400 million by 2050.

Nigeria president calls for calm and warns that reprisals play into Islamic fundamentalist hands.

US to brand three alleged members of Boko Haram as foreign terrorists in first step of wholesale blacklisting of militant Nigerian Muslim group.

Arsenal will play a first ever friendly on Nigerian soil, after visiting Malaysia, China and Hong Kong as part of a pre-season tour

At least 40 dead after radical Islamist sect Boko Haram launches attack in northern Nigeria after deadly assaults in churches of last weekend.

The Islamist militants Boko Haram unleash wave of attacks in cxity of Damaturu amid mounting criticisism of President Goodluck Jonathan trip to Brazil for a UN conference.

Study by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and African researchers comes up with life-saving method for young children.

Christian groups in Nigeria ready to retaliate against Islamist terrorist sect Boko Haram after a series of attacks on churches.

Dozens of South Sudanese migrants have been detained ahead of their deportation, as part of Israeli clampdown on illegal migrants.

Sixteen Boko Haram militants killed in Nigeria during heavy gunfight with government's Joint Task Force (JTF)

A Dana Air flight crash landed into a populated area setting on fire at least three houses. All 153 on board were killed while the number of ground casualties were yet to emerge.

Cargo plane crash-lands near Ghana capital airport and kills 10 people on bus.

Two Americans tourists kidnapped while travelling in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan features in May-June issue of Vogue Italia.

A parliamentary debate in Ukraine ended in chaos when the members from opposing parties brawled with each other - the latest bout in a dubious tradition of politcians behaving very, very badly.

South African official hints country is looking to source more of its oil imports from Nigeria instead of Iran.

Rapper Kanye West has racked up seven nominations for this year's BET Awards

Nigerian officials dismiss US plans to include Boko Haram on its watch list of foreign terrorist organisations.

A serving Metropolitan Police detective and three former police officials arrested, questioned and later released on bail, over allegations of providing information to the Nigerian fraudster James Ibori for a payment.

Man arrested as he tried to smuggle hand granades and rifle ammunition into Nigeria's information ministry in Abuja.

Nigeria's Islamic militant group, Boko Haram, is partly financed by an Algerian terrorist group, a report claimed.