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Nigeria's parliament approved a constitutional amendment on transferring presidential powers, aimed at avoiding a repeat of a crisis when the late President...

Nigeria's Acting President Goodluck Jonathan sacked the country's national security adviser (NSA), in a further sign he is asserting his authority after...

Nigeria's ruling party wants the next president to be a northerner in line with a principle that power rotates around the country,...

Nigerian Vice President Goodluck Jonathan will keep full executive powers for now, the presidency said, in an apparent bid to ease fears...

Nigeria's defence minister has denied that an amnesty programme for former rebels in the Niger Delta oil region was failing, even though...

Nigerian Vice President Goodluck Jonathan can perform the executive duties of ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua, who is in hospital overseas, without a...

A Nigerian federal court will hold hearings next week on three lawsuits against the government which accuse an ailing president of breaching...

Nigeria's leaders still need to shed some of the attitudes and values built up under military rule if Africa's most populous nation...

A leading Nigerian human rights lawyer has launched legal action to try to force President Umaru Yar'Adua to hand executive powers to...

Nigeria's cabinet unanimously agreed yesterday there were no grounds on which to seek the resignation of President Umaru Yar'Adua, rejecting calls for...

Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua has reshuffled part of his cabinet, swapping his interior ministers with their defence counterparts.Godwin Abbe, who also heads...