The Nigerian government will distribute at least 1 billion condoms to Nigerians in the next five years in an attempt to curb the spread of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the country.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday condemned the execution of a man on the order of a Sharia court in Nigeria, and urged the Nigerian authorities not carry out the death sentences of such courts.

Dozens of people died and hundreds were displaced in clashes that broke out a week ago between local farming communities and nomadic Fulani herders in Mambilla plateau, northeastern Nigeria, police and local officials said.

The family of Nigeria's former military ruler, General Sani Abacha, was forced to return to the government $148 million out of billions stolen when he was in power, AFP and Reuters cited the government as saying.

CHAIRMAN of Bakassi local government in Cross Rivers State, Chief Emmanuel Etene has been impeached.

In the past decade the situation in Nigeria’s oil belt - the Niger Delta, has been characterised by restiveness among the local communities. The over seven million people in the region -source of most of the oil that is the lifeblood of Nigeria's economy - feel cheated of the wealth pumped from their soil.

Nigeria continued last year to reap a grim harvest of ethnic and religious violence, as it had in 2000, which began with clashes that claimed over 2,000 lives in the northern city of Kaduna, and ended with fighting in Lagos in which hundreds died.

The Nigerian government could and should have prevented mass killings in Jos in September, Human Rights Watch said in a detailed report. As many as one thousand people are believed to have been killed in just six days as Jos, capital of Plateau State, was rocked by unprecedented violence between Christians and Muslims.

This new comittee aims to halt cybercrime in Nigeria.

At least nine people have died in gang fights in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, local newspapers report.

The cloud of controversy hanging over the new Electoral Law thickened further as some members of House of Representatives filed an objection for an amendment to the law because of what they described as "a smuggled clause."

The trial of former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Ishaya Bamaiyi and four others over allegation of attempts to murder The Guardian Publisher, Chief Alex Ibru yesterday further took a dramatic turn as Bamaiyi restated the bribery charge against the trial judge, Justice Ade Alabi accused of the same offence last week by Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, Chief Security Officer (CSO) to the late head of state, General Sani Abacha.

It has become loathsomely fashionable amongst all tiers of government in Nigeria, namely, the federal, state, local, ministries, departments, parastatals and all other government sponsored organisations to draw up or prepare their yearly budgets, that is, amounts of money to be spent in any coming year, without first of all giving proper and reliable accounts of huge sums of public money squandered in the preceding years.

Nigeria's "long-awaited" clinical trial of generic antiretroviral drugs has been delayed for the second time in recent months.

A three-day conference discussing development initiatives for Nigeria’s impoverished but volatile Niger Delta oil region began on Monday, in the southeastern city of Port Harcourt.

A three-day conference discussing development initiatives for Nigeria’s impoverished but volatile Niger Delta oil region began on Monday, in the southeastern city of Port Harcourt.

Former military intelligence officer Mohammed Farouk, leader of the Nigerian AIDS Alliance, received death threats Tuesday after criticizing on TV Dr. Jeremiah Abalaka's claim to have found a cure for the disease.

The majority of Nigeria's 80,000 sex workers are aware of HIV/AIDS, but most do not know how it is transmitted and almost half do not take measures to protect themselves, according to a recent study by the Nigerian Society for Family Health.

The Information Technology Association of Nigeria (ITAN) has launched a US $4.3 million-project whose goal is to increase the use of computers and other IT equipment in the country's schools.