Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) Monday reiterated its plan to attack oil firms and facilities in the oil-producing Niger Delta region, saying the attacks will be carried out within the ''next few weeks''. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Police fired teargas Monday to disperse rowdy street vendors in the Malawi capital, Lilongwe, as trouble erupted again when authorities chased the informal traders off the streets. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The military Joint Task Force (JTF) deployed to Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta region has confirmed Saturday night's attack on an oil pipeline by the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND). Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen pretending to be mourners have shot dead a bereaved former local council chair in Maiduguri, capital of Nigeria's northern Borno state, the local press reported Sunday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said its fighters have attacked and destroyed an oil pipeline operated by the Italian oil firm Agip at Brass in Bayelsa, the home state of Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan situated in the oil-producing Niger Delta region. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHE) has voiced concern over a cattle raid in a northern state of South Sudan earlier this week, which led to 78 deaths and numerous injuries among civilians, most of whom were women and children. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – Mali's ambassador in Mauritania, Souleymane Koné, on Friday assured Mauritanians living in his country of their security. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - South Sudanese authorities have reported that an unknown militia group from Unity State attacked a cattle camp in Warrap’s Tonj East County on 28 January, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said here Friday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Suspected gunmen from the Islamic sect Boko Haram on Wednesday night killed six persons at Shehuri, north of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state which is regarded as the spiritual base of the sect, the local Leadership newspaper reported Thursday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen suspected to be members of the violent Islamic sect Boko Haram have killed six persons, including two Nigerian Air Force officers, in Nigeria's northern Borno state since Monday, the private Nation newspaper reported Wednesday, quoting police and military spokespersons. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Islamic sect Boko Haram has killed a total of 935 people in 164 attacks since it launched its violent campaign in Nigeria in July 2009, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a reported released in the capital city of Abuja on Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's National Assembly is to strengthen the country's Anti-Terrorism Act so it can be more effectively used to checkmate the activities of the rampaging Islamic sect Boko Haram, according to Senate President David Mark. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigeria Police Force has put the death toll from Friday's coordinated attacks in the northern city of Kano at 185, even as a local newspaper, quoting hospital sources, said the toll had risen above 250. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Eight people were killed and an unspecified number injured when unidentified gunmen attacked the town of Tafawa Balewa in Nigeria's northern Bauchi state overnight, the local media reported Sunday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - UN and South Sudanese officials have linked the spate of violent cattle raids in Pibor, Jonglei State, to a growing trade on livestock as a means of livelihood for thousands of the region’s unemployed youth. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The death toll in Friday evening's coordinated bomb and gun attacks on many targets in Nigeria's northern city of Kano has risen to 215, according to the private Leadership newspaper. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigeria Police have yet to give an updated ballpark casualty figure after initially confirming, in a statement issued by spokesman Olusola Amore on Friday night, that seven people died in the eight attacks on the offices pf security agencies in the northern city of Kano late Friday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - About nine people, including a local television reporter and security agents, were killed in Friday evening's coordinated attacks on the offices of security agencies in Nigeria's northern city of Kano, the private Leadership newspaper reported on Saturday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Islamic sect Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the series of bomb and gun attacks targeting security agencies in Nigeria's northern city of Kano on Friday evening. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Many people were feared dead or injured on Friday evening, in a series of coordinated gun and bomb attacks on Kano city, Nigeria's second largest city situated in the north, the local Daily Trust newspaper reported. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A series of explosions rocked Nigeria's northern city of Kano Friday, but details are yet unknown, according to a city resident. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's National Security Adviser (NSA), Gen. Andrew Owoye Azazi, on Friday set up a panel to investigate the circumstances surrounding the escape of a top Boko Haram suspect, Kabir Umar, alias Sokoto, and the conduct all police officers involved in the issue. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative and head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), Ms. Hilde Johnson, on Thursday called for an immediate end to the cycle of ethnic violence in South Sudan. Full text...

Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) - A Senegalese army vehicle hit a landmine that left seven soldiers injured, two of them in critical condition, on Wednesday near the town of Diokadou, located about 100km north of Ziguinchor, the regional capital, PANA learnt from reliable sources. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Widespread anger has greeted Tuesday's dramatic escape of a suspected Boko Haram member, who allegedly masterminded the Christmas day bombing that left at least 44 dead at a church in Madalla, near the Nigerian capital city of Abuja. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A former Attourney-General and Justice Minister in Nigeria, Chief Richard Akinjide, has advised the Nigerian government to respect the resolution, recently passed by the National Assembly, calling for the suspension of the fuel subsidy removal.Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A Spanish warship fought off a pirate attack in Mogadishu shortly after escorting an aid convoy into Somalia, and captured six suspected pirates, an anti-piracy force, said. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Navi Pillay, Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Niger state government in northern Nigeria on Wednesday imposed a 24-hour curfew in parts of the state, after protests against fuel subsidy removal degenerated into violence. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen suspected to be members of the Islamic sect Boko Haram killed 12 members of the Christ Apostolic Church in Yola, capital of Nigeria's northern Adawama state, on Monday, in the latest of such attacks targeting churches and southerners in the predominantly-Muslim north, the Vanguard newspaper reported Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Monday's start-off of fuel protests in Nigeria is taking place at the worst possible time for the country, which is mired in worsening insecurity triggered by incessant attacks by the Islamic sect Boko Haram. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - After a series of attacks on Friday targeting churches and southerners in the north by the Islamic sect Boko Haram, Nigeria's umbrella Christian body has reiterated its earlier statement urging Christians to defend themselves, while warning that a civil war may be imminent if the attacks continued. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Fears that the incessant attacks on Christians in Nigeria's predominantly-Muslim north could trigger reprisal attacks in the south may have started to materialise, after the northern Hausa quarters in Sapele, southern Delta state, was attacked on Friday, leaving 50 injured. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Yet unidentified gunmen Friday shot dead 12 persons in Mubi in Nigeria northern Adamawa state. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The World Food Programme (WFP) on Thursday expressed deep concern about the deadly ethnic violence in South Sudan’s Jonglei state, where thousands of people have had to flee their homes in recent days. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Two huge, simultaneous blasts were heard in the Nigerian northern cities of Damaturu and Maiduguri on Wednesday evening, polices sources said, fearing they could be bombs detonated by the Islamic sect Boko Haram. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A top opposition party chieftain has tasked the Federal Government to use its security agencies to unmask the forces and persons behind the dreaded sectarian group, called Boko Haram. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's main opposition Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) Sunday urged the federal government to look beyond the imposition of a State of Emergency rule in resolving the security situation facing the nation. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - More than 50 people were killed and many more injured on Saturday, the eve of the New Year, in an intra-communal violence in the Ezeilo community in Nigeria's south-eastern Ebonyi state. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday declared a State of Emergency in four of the country's 36 states worst hit by the violence perpetrated by the Islamic sect Boko Haram. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a State of Emergency in four of the country's 36 states worst hit by attacks by the Islamic sect Boko Haram. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Catholics in Nigeria's capital city of Abuja will turn out en mass to ring Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Chairperson of the African Union Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Ms Dupe Atoki, has expressed concern about the spate of violence and the associated human rights violations in many parts of Nigeria. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan Friday described the Islamic sect Boko Haram, which has perpetrated horrific violence across several states in recent times, a “group of evil-minded people who want to cause anarchy to the end”. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The cleric in charge of St. Theresa's Catholic Church in Madalla, near Nigeria's capital city of Abuja, Very Rev. Isaac Achi, has put the death toll from the Christmas Day bombing of the church at 43, with 73 injured. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian Christians have said they can no longer depend on the government to protect them against what they called ''Islamic Jihad'', hence will have no choice than to defend themselves if attacked again. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The death toll from the 26 August 2011 bombing of the UN Office in Nigeria has risen to 25 following the death of another victim, the UN Resident Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr. Daouda Toure, said in a statement issued in Abuja, the Nigerian capital. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A couple and their three-year-old daughter were killed by unknown persons in Wereng village in Nigeria's restive Plateau State Tuesday night, the police said Wednesday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Delta Police Command on Wednesday said seven people were hospitalised following Tuesday’s explosion at an Arabic school in Sapele,southern Delta state. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Reacting to the latest spate of bomb attacks in the country, Nigerian civil society group, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), said the federal government's failure to prevent the continuing violence and unnecessary loss of lives Full text...