The presidency confirmed the incident and that President Muhammadu Buhari has "directed the Armed Forces and Police, to ensure immediate and safe return of all the captives.
Two years after his widely publicized arrest by authorities in the United States, Obinwanna Okeke, a celebrated young entrepreneur has been jailed for cyber crimes and wire fraud.
Royal Dutch Shell has initiated international arbitration against Nigeria over a dispute regarding an oil spill that took place five decades ago, according to a filing with the World Bank’s dispute settlement body.
Nigeria’s president appealed for calm on Sunday following reports of intercommunal violence between ethnic groups at a market in the southwestern state of Oyo.
Nigerian police beat and arrested demonstrators on Saturday as a small group protested over the reopening of the site where activists denouncing police brutality were shot last year in the commercial capital, Lagos.
At least 19 fleeing Boko Haram militants were killed in an encounter with the Nigerian military in the northeastern state of Borno, according to security sources on Wednesday.
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