Private companies want to edge into the market of providing nutrients to the world's hungry, and fortifying chewing gum with micronutrients is seen as one way to get a foothold on a huge market.

As a five-day anti-corruption convention got underway on Monday in Doha, the capital of Qatar, the United Nations said the cost of political corruption to governments around the world is about $1.6 trillion each year.

A 38-year-old Nigerian woman, Kadijat Mohammed, has been disowned by her parents for not getting married at her age, saying that they are tired of being a host to a parasite who is nothing but a liability to the family.

A human right activist was ordered out of the court for wearing a Beatles T-shirt in the Sharia Court in Kaduna state, Nigeria .

The Nigerian rebel group, Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta, stated on Wednesday that it wants peace talks before a ceasefire agreement.

The International Criminal Court is conducting a 'preliminary investigation' into the deaths of Guinean citizens, as well as the raping of women, allegedly perpetrated by soldiers during a demonstration held in the capital of Conakry in late September.

Despite readily available vaccines, death rate of sickle-cell anemia in African children remains to be a growing concern, researchers said Thursday.

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, Nigeria's main rebel faction, will resume attacks against Africa's biggest energy industry in September.

Nigeria's central bank has injected $2.5 billion into five big banks in the oil-producing nation and at the same time firing their managing director.

After a raid on Saturday, Nigerian police detained nearly 4,000 Muslims in an Islamic community in Northern Nigeria because the group posed a potential threat, according to Reuters.