Nigeria Fashion Week highlights African designers
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Nigeria's largest city has again played host to a Fashion Week event in an attempt to draw new attention to African designers...
Nigerian underwear bomber gets life in prison
DETROIT (AP) - At least five passengers were expected to speak Thursday at the sentencing of a Nigerian man who admits trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner at Christmas 2009...
TheGrio's 100: Afam Onyema, building a world-class hospital in Nigeria
theGRIO's 100 - Afam Onyema turned down jobs from prestigious law firms with starting salaries of $160,000 to help realize his father's dream of opening a hospital in Nigeria...
Welcome to 'Nollywood': Nigeria's booming film world
theGRIO REPORT - First there was Hollywood, then came Bollywood and today we have Nollywood the second largest film industry in the world...
Nigeria Senate approves anti-gay marriage bill
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Gay sex has been banned in Nigeria, a nation of more than 160 million people, since colonial rule by the British...
Modern slavery still thriving internationally
theGRIO REPORT - One of America's leading abolitionist organizations has applauded the sentencing of a Nigerian woman for enslaving two women from her country...
Nigerian woman gets prison for enslaving 2 women
ATLANTA (AP) - A Nigerian woman convicted of enslaving two young women from her country to work as servants and nannies at her suburban Atlanta home has been sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison...
Nigerian pleads guilty to underwear bomb attack
DETROIT (AP) - A Nigerian man pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempting to bring down an international flight over Detroit with a bomb in his underwear...
16 killed in bombing on UN building in Nigeria
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - The buildings, known as U.N. House, had offices for about 400 employees working for 26 U.N. humanitarian and development agencies...
Nigerian man arraigned on stowaway charges
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi, 24, is scheduled to be arraigned on charges he breached airport security in New York...
