Nigerian Acting President Goodluck Jonathan Tuesday ordered the implementation of an amnesty deal for ex-rebels to be sped up, his spokesman said a day after deadly blasts in the restive Niger Delta. "Today, the acting president gave marching orders to all agencies, bodies and individuals involved in amnesty to immediately go to work," Ima Niboro told journalists. All people involved ...

Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi has said Nigeria should be partitioned between the Christian and Muslim communities to solve its sectarian violence problem, the JANA news agency reported on Tuesday. He proposed that it should follow the partition model of Pakistan, which was born in 1947 after the Muslim minority of predominantly Hindu India founded their own homeland, led by Mohammed ...

A video posted on a militant Web site calls for Muslims in Nigeria to use "the sword and the spear" to rise up against Christians in Africa's most populous nation, according to a translation released Tuesday by a U.S. group that monitors ...

YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Bombing by Nigeria's biggest militant group in its oil delta this week will not derail an amnesty deal meant to restore security to Africa's largest energy industry, government and security sources said on Tuesday. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) detonated two bombs outside a government building in the oil city ...