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Nigerians can't watch Africa Cup of Nations on local TV - Report: Nigeria - Africa Cup of Nations
Nigerians cannot watch this important football tournament on local television. The broadcasting organization of Nigeria, the umbrella body of Nigeria’s electronic media, says this is the sacrifice Nigerians have to make in order to stop international sports rights marketing agencies from making excessive demands for television coverage. "We the broadcasters, the media owners in Nigeria, have decided to take the bull by the horns and be masters of our own destiny.
Nigerian students solve power shortages with urine - Nigeria
Most Nigerians have to rely on generators because of the epileptic power supply. Many businesses have also closed down because they cannot afford to buy expensive fuel from the black market to power their generators.Dozens killed in bomb and retaliatory attacks in northern Nigeria - ANALYSIS: NIGERIA
A church was targeted in the state capital, also called Kaduna, and blasts ripped through two churches 30 kilometres away in the city of Zaria in coordinated bomb attacks. At the Christ The King Catholic Church in the Gari district of Zaria, thirteen people were killed when a suicide bomber attempted to drive through a barricade at the entrance.
Sharia favours the rich, claim Nigerian rights activists - Nigeria - report
Sharia has been practised to varying degrees for as long as Islam has been in Nigeria. But in 1999, the then-governor of Zamfara State, Ahmed Sani, called for criminal cases to be tried in Sharia courts.
Repeated shootings and other attacks blamed on an Islamist sect have occurred in the city in recent months, though police have said some of the past incidents may have been politically linked.
Bomb blasts mar start of Nigeria's presidential elections
Nigeria's Agony Dwarfs the Gulf Oil Spill. The US and Europe Ignore It | CommonDreams.org
We reached the edge of the oil spill near the Nigerian village of Otuegwe after a long hike through cassava plantations. Ahead of us lay swamp. We waded into the warm tropical water and began swimming, cameras and notebooks held above our heads. We could smell the oil long before we saw it – the stench of garage forecourts and rotting vegetation hanging thickly in the air. A ruptured pipeline burns in a Lagos suburb after an explosion in 2008 which killed at least 100 people.
Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com - Nigeria: 50 years of oil spills
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Perhaps no place on earth has been as battered by oil, experts say, leaving residents here astonished at the nonstop attention paid to the gusher half a world away in the Gulf of Mexico. It was only a few weeks ago, they say, that a burst pipe belonging to in the mangroves was finally shut after flowing for two months: now nothing living moves in a black-and-brown world once teeming with shrimp and crab. Not far away, there is still black crude on Gio Creek from an April spill, and just across the state line in Akwa Ibom the fishermen curse their oil-blackened nets, doubly useless in a barren sea buffeted by a spill from an offshore pipe in May that lasted for weeks. The oil spews from rusted and aging pipes, unchecked by what analysts say is ineffectual or collusive regulation, and abetted by deficient maintenance and sabotage.
In Nigeria, Oil Spills Are a Longtime Scourge
We reached the edge of the oil spill near the Nigerian village of Otuegwe after a long hike through cassava plantations. Ahead of us lay swamp. We waded into the warm tropical water and began swimming, cameras and notebooks held above our heads. We could smell the oil long before we saw it – the stench of garage forecourts and rotting vegetation hanging thickly in the air. The farther we travelled, the more nauseous it became. Soon we were swimming in pools of light Nigerian crude, the best-quality oil in the world.