Waiting. That's the worst mistake a traveler can make these days.
How could a man who allegedly had explosives hidden in his underwear have been allowed to board a plane headed for the United States?
The Netherlands and Nigeria will begin using body scanners on airline passengers following the attempted terrorist attack on a U.S.-bound flight on Christmas Day, authorities in both nations said Wednesday.
Investigators combed through Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's history Sunday in hopes of learning how the British-educated son of a Nigerian bank executive ended up carrying what authorities said was a bomb onto a Michigan-bound jetliner.
The alleged terror incident aboard a passenger flight from Amsterdam to Detroit has raised questions as to how a Nigerian man carried explosives through stringent security measures.
Planners of Nigeria's capital city are plotting three new city centers, new railways and a highway.
Using two makeshift goal posts, young men of all ages, sizes and tattered clothes push and kick each other to snatch a winning goal over their neighborhood enemies.
Kashi Shodeinde turned the ignition and his battered truck convulsed as black fumes poured from the exhaust. His precious cargo of bottled Guinness beer rattled as he set off into the gauntlet of Lagos' potholed roads and traffic.
In the dark of the early morning, the assembled drug agents murmur a short prayer before setting out on an early morning drugs raid.
Rebels claimed to have attacked an oil facility in Lagos state late Sunday, according to a statement e-mailed to journalists from The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND).
Waiting. That's the worst mistake a traveler can make these days.
How could a man who allegedly had explosives hidden in his underwear have been allowed to board a plane headed for the United States?
The Netherlands and Nigeria will begin using body scanners on airline passengers following the attempted terrorist attack on a U.S.-bound flight on Christmas Day, authorities in both nations said Wednesday.
Investigators combed through Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's history Sunday in hopes of learning how the British-educated son of a Nigerian bank executive ended up carrying what authorities said was a bomb onto a Michigan-bound jetliner.
The alleged terror incident aboard a passenger flight from Amsterdam to Detroit has raised questions as to how a Nigerian man carried explosives through stringent security measures.
Planners of Nigeria's capital city are plotting three new city centers, new railways and a highway.
Using two makeshift goal posts, young men of all ages, sizes and tattered clothes push and kick each other to snatch a winning goal over their neighborhood enemies.
Kashi Shodeinde turned the ignition and his battered truck convulsed as black fumes poured from the exhaust. His precious cargo of bottled Guinness beer rattled as he set off into the gauntlet of Lagos' potholed roads and traffic.
In the dark of the early morning, the assembled drug agents murmur a short prayer before setting out on an early morning drugs raid.
Rebels claimed to have attacked an oil facility in Lagos state late Sunday, according to a statement e-mailed to journalists from The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND).
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Christian Eshiett was a rambunctious pre-teen who spent a lot of time cavorting with his friends in southern Nigeria. He would skip school and run away from home for days, frustrating his grandfather, who oversaw the boy's care.
If Lagos were a person, he (or she) would be described as "mad, bad and dangerous to know."
The truck driver kept his hand on the horn, but resorted to shifting into first gear and used the full weight of his container truck to force his way through the over-crowded and narrow market street.
Incident details: "Armed pirates chased, boarded and hijacked a fishing trawler underway" southeast of Mogadishu, Somalia. "Several persons armed with machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and machetes attempting to climb onboard with use of rope" at Lagos anchorage, Nigeria.
The U.S. Embassy in Nigeria warned Sunday that it had received threats of a possible attack on diplomatic missions in Lagos, the nation's most populous city.
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It's very rarely African cities get compared with their flashy European counterparts, yet, when it comes to cost of living Lagos isn't just competing with its neighbors in Europe -- it's beating them.
Oil prices edged modestly higher Friday as news of an output cut in Nigeria helped to halt, at least temporarily, the week's sharp decline in prices
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Royal Dutch Shell said it shut down production at an offshore oil installation that produces about 200,000 barrels per day after the most powerful militant group in Nigeria said it launched an attack there Thursday
More than a million people who want to vote in November's general election probably won't get the chance because of a delay in processing applications to become U.S. citizens, according to the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Dakar Rally organizers have insisted that the event will be back in 2009, after it was called off this weekend because of terrorist threats.
The Egbin Thermal Power Station, a few miles outside Lagos, is Nigeria's largest generating plant, with a capacity of 1,320 megawatts. It has six units, but two have been cannibalized to repair the remaining four, and at peak hours only two turbines are functioning. On bad days, like the first week in November, when the gas supply line was sabotaged, the plant shuts down altogether.
The Palms shopping center in Lagos is the largest mall in sub-Saharan Africa. It's managed by a South African company, Broll, and most of its stores - Game, Shoprite, NuMetro, Nandos - are South African brands. The largest mobile-phone company in Nigeria? It, too, is South African: MTN, which has captured nearly 50% of the market.
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Kelly Rowland collapsed onstage early Sunday in Lagos, Nigeria, where she had been performing.
The U.S. State Department confirmed that seven people were kidnapped in Nigeria, three of them U.S. citizens, but offered few details.
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Nigerians hoping for an honest leader to fight endemic corruption voted in presidential elections Saturday, but disarray at the polls and a failed truck bombing caused unease in a country trying to solidify democratic rule.
Blesso Amakiri, a logistics manager at Smit Nigeria in Port Harcourt, canceled an order for a new SUV in early March. Amakiri, 42, whose company operates tugboats in the oil-rich Niger River delta, reckoned he might be laid off, now that more than a fifth of Nigeria's oil production has been shut down by unrest in the region. Late last month he lost his job.
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Britain's Health Protection Agency Wednesday is testing a second veterinarian service worker who responded to a recent avian flu outbreak on a English poultry farm for the deadly strain of the bird flu virus.
A British veterinary employee hospitalized for a "mild respiratory illness" after working on a weekend outbreak of avian flu does not have the deadly strain of the virus, authorities said Wednesday.
It looks more like the Batmobile rather than a long-distance coach, so perhaps it is fitting that it is called the Superbus. Offering the speed of an inter-city train with the flexibility of a bus, its Dutch inventors hope that it will provide a vital part in a sustainable future of public transportation and, who knows, it just might make travelling by bus cool.
At least 200 people were killed outside Lagos, Nigeria, in a massive explosion and fire that ignited as crowds carried away buckets of refined fuel from a tapped fuel pipeline, the Nigerian Red Cross said.
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Armed attackers stormed an oil rig off the coast of Nigeria, kidnapping eight foreign workers and raising new fears over security in Africa's top oil producing nation.
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Up to 200 people were reported killed in an oil pipeline explosion on the outskirts of Nigeria's main city of Lagos on Friday.
Between 150 and 200 people died on Friday in an oil pipeline explosion in the outskirts of the Nigerian city of Lagos, Nigerian officials say.
Between 150 and 200 people were killed on Friday when a gasoline pipeline exploded in Nigeria, officials said, incinerating people as they were trying to drain fuel into cans.
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Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has grounded Sosoliso Airlines in the wake of a weekend crash that killed 108 people, many of them Catholic secondary school students on their way home for the holidays, the president's office said Tuesday.
A Nigerian passenger plane carrying a "large number" of school children headed home for the holidays crashed and burned Saturday at an airport in Port Harcourt.
Greece have called up youngster Panagiotis Lagos and Filipos Darlas for the friendly with Hungary in Athens next Wednesday.
Nigeria began three days of mourning Monday for 117 people who died when a passenger jet crashed shortly after takeoff from Lagos airport.
All 117 people aboard a passenger jet that crashed shortly after take-off from Lagos are dead, including several high-level Nigerian officials, the government said Sunday.
The wreckage of a passenger jet with 114 people on board has been found in central Nigeria, authorities said. There was no information on survivors.
The United States closed its Nigerian consulate in Lagos Friday for undisclosed security reasons, the U.S. State Department announced.
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Britain, facing a logjam of faulty visa applications, slammed the door on Monday on young Nigerians visiting the country for the first time.
"I live in a country that lacks most of the infrastructure to run a successful business. I run a small home business and I'd like to know how best I can market my business to a global market on a shoestring budget." -- Ademola, Lagos, Nigeria
International oil giant Shell said Thursday it has been forced to suspend some exports of 110,000 barrels a day because of community unrest in the Niger River Delta in Nigeria.
At least 20 people were killed in a blast Tuesday at an oil production facility in Lagos as they were stealing fuel, a Nigerian government official said Thursday.
Up to 50 people are feared to have been killed in a petroleum pipeline explosion in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos, police said.
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Lance Armstrong finished a cautious 55th in the third stage of Portugal's Tour of the Algarve, won by Argentina's Martin Garrido.
A small plane has crashed in the water off a beach in the Nigerian city of Lagos, and a search and recovery operation will begin at dawn Saturday, emergency officials told CNN.
"I am the Chief Medical Doctor and close confidant of Mrs. Maryam Abacha, the wife of the late Gen. Sani Abacha, the former head of state of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. She has mandated that I...
On my 11th birthday, back in 1964, I moved from the North Shore suburbs of Chicago to Lagos, Nigeria. My father ran a project there to spur industrial develop-ment. In my two years in Africa's most...
The so-called Nigerian 4-1-9 scam deserves a place in the record books. Despite the sheer audacity of the pitch--Make money by helping launder ours!--the scheme has been separating the greedy and g...
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A MOONLIT BEACH. A man. A boy. A peg leg. The leg's owner speaks: ''Aharrrh, Jim. Now it pains Ol' Long John somethin' fierce to have to leave 'ee, suddenlike. But there's a load o' Sony Watchmans ...
LAGOS, NIGERIA -- At the age of 11, Adeyinka Badejo is learning the hard way about affirmative action . . . The daughter of an eminent political science professor here, Miss Badejo hoped last month...
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