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(Edits headline) * Okonjo-Iweala chosen as WTO's 7th chief * Former Nigeria minister has strong reform record * Geneva-based body leaderless for six months * Trump paralysed some...

LAGOS, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Nigeria's president appealed forcalm on Sunday following reports of intercommunal violencebetween ethnic groups at a market in the southwestern state...

ISTANBUL, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Fifteen Turkish sailorskidnapped by pirates last month in the Gulf of Guinea arrivedback in Turkey on Sunday and the ship's captain described howthey...

By Angela Ukomadu and Seun Sanni LAGOS, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Nigerian police beat and arresteddemonstrators on Saturday as a small group protested over thereopening of the site where...

LAGOS, Feb 12 (Reuters) - One of the two youth members of aLagos state panel investigating police brutality and the deadlyshooting of protesters has resigned, she wrote in a tweet...

* Years of spills contaminated land, groundwater * Nigerian communities say their lives, health suffered * Shell owed duty of care, Ogale and Bille communities say * Case tests...

(Updates souring, adds details, background) ANKARA, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Fifteen Turkish sailors kidnappedby pirates last month in the Gulf of Guinea have been freed inNigeria and...

ANKARA, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Fifteen Turkish sailors kidnappedby pirates last month in the Gulf of Guinea have been freed,Turkish state broadcaster TRT Haber reported on Friday, some...

By Nneka ChileLAGOS, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Indian-Nigerian restaurant ownerHamisha Daryani Ahuja gave up her long-running business topursue her dream of making movies.Two years later,...

LONDON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The UK Supreme Court on Fridayallowed a group of 42,500 Nigerian farmers and fishermen to sueRoyal Dutch Shell (RDS) RDSa.L in English courts after...

(Refiles to add time reference in paragraph 6)ABUJA, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Nigeria's information ministercalled on activists to drop plans for a protest in thecommercial capital Lagos...

(Adds context throughout)GENEVA, Feb 9 (Reuters) - The World Trade Organization saidon Tuesday that its top decision-making body, the GeneralCouncil, will meet on February 15 to...

By Camillus Eboh and Libby GeorgeABUJA/LAGOS, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Nigeria's navy plans tostrengthen its measures to root out and punish personnel whocollude with kidnappers and...

By Emma FargeGENEVA, Feb 8 (Reuters) - World Trade Organization membersare conducting final consultations this week on selecting a newdirector-general (DG) and are widely expected...

By Felix Onuah ABUJA, Feb 7 (Reuters) - The African Union must conduct acomprehensive reform if it is to stay relevant, NigerianPresident Muhammadu Buhari said at the close of the...

WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - The United States on Fridaythrew its support behind Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to headthe World Trade Organization after a South Korean...

(Updates with suspension lifting) By Libby George and Alexis Akwagyiram LAGOS, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Nigeria has lifted its suspensionof Emirates airlines flights imposed after the...