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The death toll from a suicide car-bomb attack at the U.N.'s Nigeria headquarters has risen to 23, a U.N. spokesman said Sunday, making Friday's attack one of the deadliest attacks on the U.N. in a decade.

Nigeria's anti-corruption agency is failing to tackle corrupt politicians effectively, a report by the US-based group Human Rights Watch says.

Nigerian police have uncovered 20 corpses hidden in a tunnel in the southeastern town of Onitsha, and suspect they were victims of armed robbers.

Nigerians headed to the polls Saturday to vote for president, a week after parliamentary elections were marred by violence and accusations of fraud in Africa's most populous nation.

Thousands of Nigerians gathered in Abuja on Saturday to hear President Goodluck Jonathan proclaim his candidacy in January elections, likely to be the most fiercely contested since the end of military rule.

Nigeria swore in a new president Thursday morning, former Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, hours after the death Wednesday night of Umaru Yar’Adua.

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua died late on Wednesday aged 58 after a long battle with kidney and heart ailments, paving the way for Acting President Goodluck Jonathan to be sworn as leader of Africa's most populous nation.

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 Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a U.S.-bound airplane on Christmas Day had been properly screened by airport authorities before boarding a flight in Lagos, the Attorney General said on Thursday.

The Red Cross in Nigeria says many of those who died in clashes in Bauchi state on Monday were children.