The Indian government has said negotiations are being conducted by 'some private parties' and not the government as the kidnappers are purely criminal elements.
Nigeria's Folashade Abugan has been stripped of her 400metres silver medal after failing a drug test at the Commonwealth Games.
Zambia's chances of emulating Egypt, Ghana and Cameroon as the only nations to retain the African Nations Cup did not look promising when they began their campaign with a stuttering 1-1 draw against Ethiopia on Monday.
Nigeria defender Joseph Yobo said the Super Eagles had only themselves to blame for blowing an extraordinary chance to reach the last 16 of the World Cup by drawing 2-2 with South Korea on Tuesday.
South Korea have targeted the sometimes fragile Nigerian temperament as a route to victory when a tight World Cup Group B reaches a climax on Tuesday with all four teams still in the hunt for a second round spot.
Over 500 bodies, most of them burned beyond recognition, were lying at the scene of a fuel pipeline explosion in Nigeria's largest city Lagos, sources said on Tuesday.
"Suspected members of Boko Haram terrorists attacked a Gum Arabic Factory located at Bayan quarters, Maiduguri metropolis today at about 10:00 hrs during heavy rain," a spokesman of a military Joint Task Force, Lt Col Sagir Musa told PTI but couldn't give the name of the Indians.
As many as 200 villagers trying to scoop up fuel from an overturned tanker were killed in southern Nigeria on Thursday, when the petrol carrying vehicle exploded in a horrific inferno.
Over 153 people were feared dead when a passenger plane tragically crashed into a residential building shortly after takeoff in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos on Sunday.
A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a packed church during Sunday service, killing three people and injuring dozens in central Nigeria's Jos city that has been the centre of a sectarian and ethnic violence.
At least 50 people were feared killed in two car bomb explosions near a church during Easter Sunday services in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna, eye-witnesses and emergency services said.
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Thursday accused a Nigerian diplomat of sending "offensive SMSes" to a senior police officer over the controversy relating to the killing of a Nigerian national that had sparked protests by his compatriots in Panaji.
At least 10 people, including a policewoman, were killed on Saturday and several others wounded in a blast at a polling station in Nigeria's northern state of Maiduguri during the parliamentary elections.
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India's largest cellular service company Bharti Airtel will invest $600 million in Nigeria's mobile market following its take over of Zain Telecom's African business for around SUD 10.7 billion.
The second seed beat top seed Chanelle Scheepers of South Africa in the final of the USD 25000 ITF tournament in Nigeria.
Tahiti suffered a 6-1 thrashing by Nigeria in the Confederations Cup on Monday although the amateurs did find the net as Jonathan Tehau scored at both ends when they made their debut in a major tournament.
Four Indian doctors, who claim they are being forced to treat Ebola patients against their will in Nigeria, want to return home and appealed to the Indian government to facilitate this.
The government cannot deal with them directly as they were 'mere criminal elements without any political issue' and money was what all they want in ransom, the ministry said.
Simranjeet Singh and Rajni Etimarpu will lead the men's and women's sides respectively as Hockey India on Sunday named the Indian teams for the upcoming FIH Hockey5s World Cup to be held in Muscat, Oman.
Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped an Indian national in Nigeria's restive oil producing Delta region, the police said on Saturday.
Shrugging off the disappointment of a 1-3 semi-final loss to England, Indian men's team spanked Nigeria 3-0 in third place play-off to clinch the bronze in the Commonwealth Games' table tennis competition.
Nigeria, India's largest trading partner in Africa, on Wednesday invited Indian companies to invest substantially in the oil-rich country and promised all necessary help and good business environment.
Gunmen on Friday kidnapped six oil workers, including an Indian, from a petroleum installation in Nigeria's lawless southern crude-pumping region on Friday, officials said.
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Goalkeeper Ivan Provedel scored in the dying moments of the Champions League Group E match against Atletico Madrid, heading home the equaliser, to earn Lazio a 1-1 draw at Stadio Olimpico, in Rome, on Tuesday.
The pilot ejected safely and a court of inquiry has been ordered to ascertain the cause of the accident, the IAF said in a brief statement.
Nigeria's football team went on strike on Thursday, refusing to leave their hotel in Namibia and missing a flight to Brazil where they are supposed to compete in the Confederations Cup, which gets underway at the weekend.
At least 25 people have been killed in a series of car bomb explosions targeting a bus station in northern Nigeria. The blasts occurred on Monday at a inter-city bus station in Kano when three suspected suicide bombers came in a Volkswagen Golf car and rammed their vehicle into one of the buses parked there.
Nigerian Sports Minister Musa Mohammed is backing his country to win 10 Olympic gold medals at the Athens Games in August.
Nigeria and South Africa both left it late on Sunday to salvage points at the start of their bids to qualify for the World Cup on a day that emphasised the increasing vagaries of the qualifying competition on the African continent.
Singh has questioned the reliability of the EVMs on more than one occasion following the Congress' defeat in the recent assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh.
'It's a personal interview, very personal actually, and we have to respect that'
ONGC-Mittal combine will invest more than $6 billion in setting up a refinery, power plant and railway lines in Nigeria.\n\n
The World Cup began with 32 teams competing in a group stage, with teams divided into eight groups of four.
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