Nigeria is witnessing a four-fold increase in polio, the BBC has reported.

The disease is also spreading to other countries - Niger, Mali and Ivory Coast, the WHO revealed.

The BBC report quoted an

A series of explosions rocked Nigeria's restive town of Maiduguri including an attack by suicide bombers on a military base, an Army spokesman said.

"They came with a black SUV to the Joint Task Fo

A bomb rocked the UN building in the Nigerian capital Abuja on Friday and wounded were being evacuated from the five-storey structure which sustained heavy damage, officials and witnesses said.

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Indian minister of state for petroleum and natural gas R.P.N. Singh on Friday arrived in Nigeria to invite President Goodluck Jonathan and foreign minister Henry Odein Ajumogobia to the second Indian-African forum summit scheduled in Addis Ababa later in May.

Nigeria's gubernatorial elections will be held on Tuesday even as the oil rich African country grapples with thick clouds of violence in which over 200 people were killed following the recent presidential elections.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday built an unbeatable lead after elections, according to official results still being declared, putting him on course to be announced the winner.

Four Nigerians were charged by a court here for kidnapping nine foreign workers, including four Indians, in the restive Niger Delta earlier in 2010.

An Indian principal of a school in Nigeria's restive southern delta region, was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen who sped off with her after killing her driver and a police escort.