Apr 16 Nigerian Court Reinstates Key Opposition Candidate as Election Looms By PBS News Hour Nigeria's Supreme Court on Monday cleared Vice President Atiku Abubakar as a valid presidential candidate, less than a week before elections are set to take place. Continue reading
Apr 05 Doubts Persist over Nigerian Presidential Election Process By PBS News Hour Amid voter registration delays and a dispute over the exclusion of a major candidate, Nigeria prepares for a historic presidential election that could see the country's first handoff of power from one elected civilian leader to the next. Continue reading
Apr 05 Ethnicity in Nigeria By PBS News Hour Despite being home to somewhere between 250 and 400 ethnic groups, Nigeria is primarily made up of four main ethnic groups -- Hausa, Fulani, Igbo and Yoruba -- that comprise about 60 percent of the population. Continue reading
Jan 26 Watch Guerilla Groups Attack Nigerian Oil Resources, Affecting World Market Oil pipelines in Nigeria, the fifth-largest provider of oil to the United States, have been the targets of guerilla groups recently, contributing to last year's gas price surges. Margaret Warner talks with author Sebastian Junger about the latest activity in… Continue watching
Dec 26 Nigerian Pipeline Explosion Kills Hundreds By PBS News Hour More than 260 people were killed Tuesday when a punctured gasoline pipeline exploded in Lagos, Nigeria. Continue reading
May 16 Nigerian Senate Blocks Obasanjo from Running for Third Term By PBS News Hour The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday threw out a controversial bill that would have amended the country's constitution to let President Olusegun Obasanjo seek a third term in office. Continue reading
Mar 28 Warlord Charles Taylor Vanishes From Nigeria By Admin, PBS News Hour Charles Taylor, wanted for orchestrating the murder, rape and mutilation of more than 500,000 Africans, disappeared Monday, days after Nigerian leader Olusegun Obasanjo agreed to transfer him to a war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone. Continue reading
Mar 10 Militant Group Poses Threat to Nigerian Oil Industry By PBS News Hour The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, or MEND, first emerged as an armed militia group in January 2006 when it launched coordinated attacks on oil installations. Continue reading
Feb 21 Third Term Rumors Spark Political Debate in Nigeria By Admin, PBS News Hour Nigerian officials are denying rumors that have swept through that nation's media that President Olusegun Obasanjo may be trying to amend the country's constitution in order to seek a third term in office. Continue reading
Feb 08 Nigeria Reports First Case of Bird Flu in Africa By PBS News Hour Animal health experts confirmed the first outbreak among poultry of the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus in Nigeria. Continue reading