Feb 24th, 2010 · Nigeria's ill President Umaru Yar'Adua returned home Wednesday to his West African nation after three months abroad receiving treatment for a heart condition at a Saudi Arabian hospital. Abdullah Aminchi, Nigeria's ambassador to Saudi Arabia, told The Associated Press that Yar'Adua returned home on a flight that arrived in Abuja, the country's capital.
Feb 18th, 2010 · Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's evolution as a radical Muslim took root in his home in Nigeria, but found rich soil during his time as a university student in London. The man accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner rubbed shoulders with Islamic extremists and organized an event that brought former Guantanamo detainees to campus to speak.
Feb 17th, 2010 · An NPR News Investigation: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the young man charged with trying to blow up a plane on Christmas Day, came from predominately Muslim northern Nigeria. Analysts say the area could be an incubator for extremism as Islamic fundamentalism spreads among a population facing inequality and a lack of education.
Feb 17th, 2010 · The alleged Christmas Day attacker grew up in a strict, well-to-do family in a region of northern Nigeria heavily impacted by religious violence. When he left home for boarding school, he became increasingly troubled by his family's Western lifestyle and turned more ardently to Islam. Part 1 of an NPR News Investigation.
Jan 19th, 2010 · Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, charged with trying to blow up a Detroit-bound trans-Atlantic airliner on Christmas Day, spent much of his life outside his native Nigeria. But those who remember him from his days in Kaduna are trying to sort out what went wrong with this unassuming boy.
Jan 19th, 2010 · The rioting began Sunday after Muslim youths set a Catholic church ablaze. Witnesses said rioters armed with knives, homemade firearms and stones attacked passers-by and fought with security forces, leaving bodies in the street and stacked in local mosques. The state government called for more military units and issued a curfew.
Jan 7th, 2010 · This week, the Obama administration placed 14 so-called "countries of interest" on a list. People traveling through those countries en route to the U.S. will be subject to extra-intense screening. NPR correspondents check in with passengers at airports in two of the countries — Iraq and Nigeria — and in Italy, which is a key transit point for travelers headed to the U.S.
Jan 3rd, 2010 · The Transportation Security Administration says passengers flying into the United States from certain countries will be subject to enhanced screening techniques, such as body scans and pat-downs. Travelers from Nigeria, Yemen and Pakistan will be among those subject to enhanced screening.