A Nigerian official said four students have died after school building collapsed, AP reported.
The zone Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency, Mohammed Abdullsalam, said late Sunday 24 people were injured in the collapse of Abu (...)
Eight people were killed and around 100 needed hospital treatment after inhaling chlorine gas following an explosion at a water treatment plant in Jos, a city in central Nigeria, Reuters cited the state government as saying on Saturday.
A chlorine (...)
An emergency agency official says 44 people were killed by two bombs that exploded at a crowded mosque and an elite Muslim restaurant in Nigeria's central city of Jos.
Abdussalam Mohammed of the National Emergency Management Agency says 67 other (...)
A military spokesman says soldiers killed more than 100 gunmen blamed for ethno-religious clashes started by cattle rustling in central Nigeria.
Maj. Gen. Henry Ayoola said the military went on the offensive after 28 civilians were killed last week, (...)
Authorities in central Nigeria said a flood triggered by heavy rains killed at least 35 people.
Plateau state Red Cross chief Mnasseh Pampe said Monday several other Jos residents remain missing and rescue forces expect the death toll to rise (...)
Authorities in central Nigeria say 37 people have been killed in villages near Jos early Saturday, which has seen religious violence in the past.
Military spokesman Mustapha Salisu said Sunday that assailants launched "sophisticated attacks" on (...)
Wilfried Tsonga opened their seasons with hard-fought, first-round victories at the Qatar Open Tuesday.
The second-ranked Nadal overcame Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany 6-3, 6-7 (2), 6-3 in a match that lasted two-and-a-half hours, while the (...)
Wilfried Tsonga earned his first win at the ATP World Tour Finals Tuesday, beating Mardy Fish of the United States 7-6 (4), 6-1 in his second Group B match.
Fish was slowed by the left hamstring injury that has disrupted the end of his season, (...)
Wilfried Tsonga shredded the Wimbledon script with a devastating fightback to knock six-time champion Roger Federer out Wednesday and clinch a semifinal showdown against Novak Djokovic.
Federer's unlikely 3-6, 6-7, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 capitulation on a (...)
Wilfried Tsonga beat French Open Rafael Nadal 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-1 in the quarterfinals at Queens Club Friday.
Earlier, Andy Roddick eased past seventh-seeded Spaniard Fernando Verdasco 6-2, 6-2, and second-seeded Andy Murray received a walkover into (...)
Jo Reyes won for the first time in 29 starts by throwing his first career complete game and Jayson Nix hit a two-run home run to lead the Toronto Blue Jays to an 11-1 rout of the Cleveland Indians Monday.
Reyes (1-4) allowed one run and eight hits, (...)
Christian youths attacked a car full of Muslims returning from a wedding in central Nigeria, killing seven people inside the vehicle and sparking retaliatory violence that left one other person dead, an official said Saturday, according to (...)
Christian youths attacked a car full of Muslims returning from a wedding in central Nigeria, killing seven people inside the vehicle and sparking retaliatory violence that left one other person dead, an official said Saturday, according to (...)
At least 80 people were killed in bombings and sectarian clashes in central Nigeria, officials say.
The police said on Saturday 32 people were killed in the bomb attacks but with more than 100 wounded in hospital the death count was expected to (...)
An explosion killed at least five people and wounded dozens more in a village near the central Nigerian city of Jos on Friday, police said.
Abdulrahman Akano, Plateau state police commissioner, said five people were dead, while more were in a (...)
Officials in Nigeria Saturday said 31 people were killed and several others were injured in bombings in the city of Jos.
At least five explosions occurred in two commercial districts of the city, setting a number of parked cars on fire, UPI (...)
Sporadic violence in Nigeria's central Plateau state has killed at least nine people this week, Reuters quoted police and residents as saying, as tensions remained high weeks after hundreds died in sectarian clashes.
Seven bodies were found on (...)
Nigeria's acting president Sunday ordered the security forces to hunt down those behind clashes involving Muslim herders and Christian villagers in which more than 300 people may have been killed.
The latest unrest in Nigeria's central Plateau (...)
Soldiers patrolled the central Nigerian city of Jos on Monday and aid workers tried to assess the death toll after attacks on outlying communities in which several hundred people were feared to have been killed.
A Reuters witness counted more (...)
Mosque and government officials have pulled more bodies from wells and sewage pits in a village near the Nigerian city of Jos, victims of what Human Rights Watch said appeared to have been a targeted massacre.
Four days of clashes between Christian (...)
Sectarian violence in Nigeria has left one village almost empty, with nearly 3,000 people either dead or fleeing in fear of their lives, its chief says.
Umar Baza, the chief of Kuru Karama, told the U.N. Integrated Regional Information Network (...)
Soldiers with machine guns patrolled the streets of Jos in the back of pickup trucks Wednesday, following days of sectarian violence in central Nigeria that killed more than 200 people, The Associated Press reported.
Two charred bodies were (...)
Sectarian violence erupted again Tuesday in Nigeria, as security forces issued a 24-hour curfew for the city of Jos where rioters have burned homes and killed at least 27 people, The Associated Press reported.
Security forces ordered everyone (...)
Wilfried Tsonga and sixth-seeded Nikolay Davydenko won second-round matches at the Paris Masters Tuesday to keep their hopes alive of qualifying for next month's eight-man ATP World Tour Finals.
Tsonga beat Albert Montanes of Spain 6-1, 7-5 and (...)
Wilfried Tsonga marched into the Johannesburg Open semifinals with a 6-4, 6-1 victory over Belgian Kristof Vliegen on Friday.
The Frenchman next plays unseeded Portuguese Frederico Gil, who put out Spain's Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 7-6, 6-3.
There (...)
