Nigeria on Tuesday said it had released one of the two grounded foreign registered aircrafts after its owners paid a 7 million naira (35,131 U.S. dollars) fine to the country.
The presidents of Senegal, Togo, Benin and Nigeria were to travel to Burkina Faso's capital city late Tuesday to help resolve the political stalemate following a military coup last week, a security source told Xinhua.
Nigeria on Monday moved its military control center to the city of Maiduguri, the heartland of Boko Haram's insurgency and capital of the northeastern state of Borno, to engage in the routing of the terror group in the West African country.
A Nigerian senator from restive northeastern state of Borno has expressed optimism that the military will "liberate Gwoza town, a strong hold of Boko Haram, very soon".
Boko Haram has released 158 Women and children abducted from a village in northeastern Nigeria's Yobe State, an official said on Friday.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday pledged support for the war Nigeria was waging to defeat the Boko Haram insurgents.
Twelve Nigerian presidential candidates on Wednesday signed the Abuja Accord, a document in which all candidates for the 2015 election pledged to shun words that could incite violence before, during and after the elections.
At least 3,200 people were displaced in Nigeria's northeastern Borno State after a deadly attack by suspected Boko Haram militants last week in Baga town, the country's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said Monday.
Owing to the fall in global oil prices, Nigeria, Africa's largest economy, has begun to slow down, causing a review and austerity measure regime to be envisaged by government, an expert said in an exclusive interview with Xinhua, as the West African country fights hard against recession.
Troops in Nigeria have arrested suspected Boko Haram cameramen who are experts in photo, video recording and filming of their attacks on communities and atrocities against innocent citizens, the country's defense authority said Monday.
Nigeria on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of the United Kingdom (UK) on prisoner exchange arrangements and immigration issues, an official said.
A cargo plane carrying the bodies of 74 South Africans, who were killed when a Nigerian church building collapsed in September, has arrived home.
The World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared Nigeria Ebola free on Monday, after no new cases were confirmed in the past 42 days.
Nigeria would design, fabricate, test and launch its indigenous satellite by 2018, Minister of Science and Technology, Abdu Bulama, said on Tuesday.
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday said Britain has offered Nigeria a surveillance aircraft and a military team to help search more than 200 abducted schoolgirls in the country.
French President Francois Hollande announced on Wednesday a dispatch of security agents to Nigeria to help find abducted schoolgirls and crack down the Islamist group Boko Haram after seizing more than 234 girls last month.
A French hostage kidnapped on Dec. 20, 2012 in Nigeria was released, the French president's office Elysee said on Sunday.
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