Nigerian police say they have arrested a senior commander of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram in the troubled northern city of Kano.

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‘Militant leader’ held in Nigeria

At least 34 people were killed after a failed cattle raid in a northeast Nigeria market sparked a retaliatory attack by robbers angry one of their colleagues had been burned alive by herders, an official and witnesses said Thursday.

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Gunmen Kill 34 at Northeast Nigeria Cattle Market

Dozens of people are reported dead after unknown gunmen attack a cattle market in north-eastern Nigeria.

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‘Dozens killed’ in Nigeria raid

Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram posts a video saying it is responsible for last week’s bombing of a major newspaper and warns other media attacks.

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Boko Haram claims attack on paper

Five people are killed, and 10 injured, in two attacks in central Nigeria, one targeting a venue showing the Chelsea-Barcelona match, officials say.

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Double attack in central Nigeria

Five bakers in Nigeria have been killed in an attack by suspected Islamist gunmen in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri, police say.

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Bakers killed by Nigeria gunmen

Jim Yong Kim, a US health expert, is chosen to take over as the new president of the World Bank, after a challenge from Nigeria’s finance minister.

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US choice is new World Bank chief

The World Bank named Jim Yong Kim, Dartmouth College’s president, as its new chief on Monday after an unprecedented competition against nominees from Nigeria and Colombia. In a statement Monday afternoon, the bank board said it had chosen Kim as the institution’s 12th president to succeed Robert Zoellick when his five-year term ends in June. Read full article > >

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Jim Yong Kim named World Bank president

The first time Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ever had to convince Barack Obama of anything was back in 2005. At the time, Obama was an ambitious young senator from Illinois with a keen interest in foreign affairs. Okonjo-Iweala was Nigeria’s blunt-speaking finance minister, traversing the globe to convince the world’s wealthiest nations that they should ease her country’s debt burden. Read full article > >

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Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala shakes up the campaign for World Bank president

With earth’s population headed for 10 billion, much of the growth is in sub-Saharan Africa, where trends that have lowered birthrates elsewhere have not yet caught on.

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In Nigeria, a Preview of an Overcrowded Planet

The first time Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ever had to convince Barack Obama of anything was back in 2005. At the time, Obama was an ambitious young senator from Illinois with a keen interest in foreign affairs. Okonjo-Iweala was Nigeria’s blunt-speaking finance minister, traversing the globe to convince the world’s wealthiest nations that they should ease her country’s debt burden. Read full article > >

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Can Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala break America’s hold on the World Bank?

Dead bodies littered a road in northern Nigeria on Sunday after a massive explosion that an official said killed 25 people and a witness said shattered windows of a nearby church where worshipers were celebrating Easter.

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25 die in bombing near Nigerian church

Two car bombs in the Nigerian city of Kaduna, kill at least 18 people, officials say.

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Nigerian bomb attacks ‘kill 18′

The campaign for president of the World Bank has come down to three people. There’s the White House’s pick, Jim Yong Kim . And, for the first time, there are two non-American candidates: Colombia’s José Antonio Ocampo and Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Read full article > >

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Despite all the grumbling, the World Bank job will likely still go to the American

The identity of the tweeter Gidi Traffic, who informs motorists in Nigeria’s largest city Lagos of traffic jams, is revealed to the BBC.

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Lagos traffic tweeter is revealed