Tag: oil-rich south

In 2013, thousands of young men formed a rag-tag militia and rounded up Boko Haram members in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, ...

The Nigerian army on Wednesday launched a monthlong operation to reduce violence in the center of the country, as ethnically ...

Nigeria's central bank has made moves to strengthen the naira currency to boost domestic manufacturing and lift the economy out ...

Nigeria's government this week launched a master plan to lift it out of recession, hoping to hit 7.0 percent growth ...

Two German archaeologists who were kidnapped while working at a dig site in northern Nigeria last week have been released ...

Nigeria will invest $10bn (£8bn) in its oil-rich south to end an insurgency by militants, the oil minister has said. ...