Nigeria’s presidential election tribunal is due to rule on Wednesday on whether Bola Tinubu should stay as president after two rivals challenged his victory in February’s disputed vote. There have been numerous legal challenges to the outcome of previous Nigerian presidential elections, but none have succeeded. Most political observers expect …

OPEC and its allies pumped 380,000 b/d fewer barrels of crude oil in April compared to March, according to the latest Platts survey by S&P Global Commodity Insights, as Iraq was unable to export its northern production, while Nigeria suffered major outages. OPEC’s 13 members produced 28.60 million b/d, down …

A London court has jailed Nigerian politician Ike Ekweremadu for nine years and eight months in Britain’s first illegal organ-harvesting prosecution, the Crown Prosecution Service said on Friday. Ekweremadu’s wife Beatrice, 56, and London-based doctor Obinna Obeta, 51, were sentenced to four years and six months, and ten years, respectively, …

At least one person has reportedly been killed while many more were injured after Nigerian police opened fire on Quds Day protesters in the main city of Abuja. Videos from Abuja showed police firing tear gas at the protesters, who were scrambling for cover, at the annual International Quds Day march …

Gunmen abducted at least 80 people, mostly women and children, in Nigeria’s Zamfara state, a hotspot for kidnappings for ransom by armed gangs targeting remote villages, residents said on Saturday. Gangs of armed men have attacked hundreds of local communities across northwestern Nigeria in recent years, while Islamist militants continue …

Some protesters have stormed the national assembly in Abuja over the just concluded presidential election in Nigeria. The protesters carried placards with the inscriptions such as ‘Save our Democracy’, “INEC + Corruption, Politicians are killing our Democracy,” and “INEC killing the Nigerian Democracy.” DAILY POST reports that some of the …

An explosion and fire near an illegal oil refinery site in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region killed at least 12 people Friday, police said, although local residents reported a much higher death toll. The explosion in the Emuoha council area of the southern Rivers state occurred along a pipeline targeted by …

Nigeria’s electoral commission has declared ruling party candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu the winner of Saturday’s presidential election. The announcement comes a day after opposition candidates called the election a “sham” and demanded a revote. In the early morning announcement broadcast on state-run National Television Authority, Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission …

Nigerians were still voting in a few parts of the country after glitches prevented them from doing so on Saturday, but results of the national election would start to be announced from 6 p.m. (1700 GMT) the electoral commission said. Counting was already underway in the West African oil exporting …

Nigerians have voted to choose a successor to President Muhammadu Buhari amid hopes the next leader will steer Africa’s most populous nation and biggest economy on a new course after years of worsening violence and hardship. Polling stations were scheduled to open at 8:30 a.m. (0730 GMT) Saturday, but there …

International financial crime watchdog the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) said on Friday it was adding South Africa and Nigeria to its so-called “grey list” of countries under special scrutiny to implement standards to prevent money laundering and terrorism financing. The FATF is an inter-governmental organisation that underpins the fight …

Gunmen have abducted at least 80 people and killed nearly a dozen others in separate attacks in the northwest of Nigeria, in the latest attacks by armed gangs that have been preying on villages, schools and highways. Armed gangs kidnapped at least 80 people and killed 11 others in different …

Widespread flooding has killed more than 500 people in Nigeria, left around 90,000 homes underwater, and blocked food and fuel supplies, two government ministries said on Friday. The floods have hit 27 of Nigeria’s 36 states and impacted around 1.4 million people, the ministries for humanitarian affairs and for disaster …

In major cities and villages across Nigeria, Shia Muslims have organized the annual Eid al-Ghadir celebration on Sunday. Eid al-Ghadir, held on the 18th of the Muslim month of Dhu Al-Hijjah, is amongst the most significant feasts of Shia Muslims. On this occasion, almost 1,400 years ago, Prophet Muhammad (Blessings …

Armed assailants attacked a Catholic church in southwest Nigeria on Sunday with gunfire and explosives, leaving at least 50 people dead. According to Press TV, the unidentified gunmen targeted the St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State during a mass, lawmaker Ogunmolasuyi Oluwhole said, adding there were children and women among …

Central bank governor Godwin Emefiele and at least four of the ministers who resigned are looking to succeed Buhari as Nigeria’s president.

Building collapses frequently happen in Africa’s most populous country. A three-story residential building has collapsed in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, killing at least five people, while many are feared trapped, emergency response services said. “Twenty-three people have been rescued alive including seven children and 16 adults,” said Ibrahim Farinloye of …

The blast in Nigeria left bodies “burned beyond recognition,” a local official said An overnight explosion at an illegal oil refining depot in Nigeria’s Imo State has killed 100 people, the state’s commissioner for petroleum resources said on Saturday. Illegal refining is a persistent problem in an area of the …

A blast in the capital of Nigeria’s northeastern Taraba state on Friday evening injured 11 people including children, police said, days after an explosion claimed by Islamic State killed 3 people at a marketplace in a rural town in Taraba. The blasts in Taraba mark the spread of Islamist insurgencies …

Market bombing in Iware, Taraba state, marks the expansion of area where ISIL affiliate operates in Nigeria. The Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) armed group has claimed responsibility for an explosion that it said killed or injured 30 people at a market where alcohol was sold in Nigeria’s …