Asked whether the Government had any response to the rebels in Nigeria, the PMS said that our general position on this was that oil supply in Nigeria had been undermined by insecurity in the Niger Delta. This was bad for the local population, for workers, for the Nigerian Government and the stability of the wider region. The President of Nigeria was visiting London next week and the Prime Minister...

Jeffrey Tesler, a London solicitor, is accused by the US Department of Justice of funnelling $132m in bribes to Nigerian government officials to win work for a building consortium on a $6bn gas plant in Nigeria

The religious cleansing against Christians is intensifying in Nigeria, where Christians have been told they have until Friday to leave the country or face attacks by Islamic extremists. As I wrote recently in the Daily Telegraph, this is a trend sweeping the Middle East. Thousands are fleeing Iraq and Egypt, but Nigeria is the scene of the most ferocious attacks. Its government condemns the attack...

TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images Despite the record-breaking fundraising the Barack Obama campaign has done in recent months -- $235 million in the first quarter of 2008 -- here's one place from which funds will not be flowing: Nigeria. Since Obama announced his candidacy, local groups waving the Obama banner have shot up throughout Africa, and Nigeria is no exception. The Obama Nigeria Initiati...

The European Union has offered Nigeria financial and political backing for a €15bn trans-Saharan pipeline to pump its gas directly to Europe

The Anglican Church in North America announced its plans yesterday to create a breakaway church to protest the ordination of an openly gay bishop five years ago. Up to this point, Anglicans in the United States and Canada who objected to homosexuality had allied themselves with churches abroad -- namely, the Anglican Church of Nigeria. As FP's recent list of the world's top religious pow...

Soldiers in Nigeria confront opposition party supporters angry at the result of an election re-run in south-western Ekiti.

UK officials pulled out of Friday's anniversary celebrations in Nigeria, targeted by deadly bomb blasts, raising questions about the handling of warnings.

IF YOU are even momentarily persuaded by the crazily mendacious thesis that ‘secular fundamentalists are the new totalitarians’, reflect for a moment or two on why 500 people were slaughtered in Nigeria over the weekend. The victims were Christians, those who hacked them to pieces with machetes were Muslims, and it’s a safe bet that none

Put that the Prime Minister was seeing the President of Nigeria this week, and asked about the Prime Minister's comments yesterday on offers of help and the need for urgency, the PMS replied that the Prime Minister said what he said and there was nothing to add to that ahead of the meeting. original source.