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Lagos uses beach polo to hook investors to `Dubai of Africa`

Last Updated: Sunday, March 22, 2015, 16:45

Porsches and Jaguars are parked in the sand while businessmen and their partners, in high heels and hats, sit in the sheltered grandstands, glass of champagne in hand.

Churchill Brothers signs Costa Rican striker Navarro

Last Updated: Monday, December 30, 2013, 13:39

Defending I-League champions Churchill Brothers have signed Costa Rica striker Cristian Lagos Navarro to bolster their struggling forwardline and turn their fortunes as the Goan side is presently languishing at the bottom of the league.

Nigerian leader denies corruption, death squads

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 24, 2013, 05:34

Nigeria`s President Goodluck Jonathan is challenging a prominent critic to prove allegations of corruption and that he is training a death squad to kill enemies.

Nigeria frees 16 girls, women in `baby factory` raid

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 4, 2013, 19:01

Nigerian police on Wednesday said they raided a home and freed 16 pregnant girls and young women allegedly being forced to have babies to be sold.

Nigerian militant group criticises Boko Haram

Last Updated: Monday, November 18, 2013, 10:40

A private firm that monitors extremists says a splinter group of the Nigerian extremist network Boko Haram has criticised the larger group for September attacks that killed over 140 people.

17 killed in Nigerian church stampede: Official

Last Updated: Sunday, November 3, 2013, 09:39

Seventeen people were killed and dozens of others injured in a stampede following the end of an overnight church vigil in eastern Nigeria, a government spokesman said.

Pirates kidnap two American sailors off Nigeria

Last Updated: Friday, October 25, 2013, 11:39

Pirates have stormed an oil supply vessel off southern Nigeria and kidnapped two American crew members, Nigeria`s navy and US defence officials said on Thursday.

18 dead in Nigeria river boat accident

Last Updated: Sunday, October 6, 2013, 23:53

Eighteen people died when a boat carrying some 70 passengers capsised on the Niger River in central Nigeria, an official said on Sunday, a week after 42 perished in a similar incident.

Nigeria: 14 killed as plane nosedives in Lagos

Last Updated: Thursday, October 3, 2013, 17:15

A chartered airplane nosedived into the ground and burst into flames meters from tanks of aviation fuel on Thursday, killing 14 people, Nigerian officials said.

42 dead, 100 missing in Nigeria river boat accident

Last Updated: Saturday, September 28, 2013, 23:14

A boat overloaded with passengers and goods travelling on the Niger River in central Nigeria has capsized, killing 42 people with 100 others missing, the state rescue agency said on Saturday.

Kidnapped British businessman released in Nigeria

Last Updated: Friday, March 29, 2013, 00:23

A Briton who was kidnapped in Nigeria`s commercial capital of Lagos last week has been released.

Explosion kills one in Nigeria’s Lagos

Last Updated: Monday, February 18, 2013, 23:03

An explosion in Nigeria`s commercial hub of Lagos killed a man and injured another one sparking fears of violence spreading to the south of the country.