Nigeria

Nigeria

Dozens killed in central Nigeria as herders clash with farmers

Dozens killed in central Nigeria as herders clash with farmers.

25/06/2018

Nigeria

Nigeria Blast kills at least 31

A blast in northeast Nigeria has killed at least 31 people

17/06/2018

Nigeria

Watch: Chaos in Nigerian Senate as 'hoodlums' steal mace in packed chamber

Three men have been filmed bursting into a packed Senate in Nigeria and stealing a symbolic mace.

19/04/2018

Cult

Nigeria's Arise Fashion Week

Arise Fashion week features 45 designers, many from African countries

03/04/2018

Nigeria

Expresso yourself! Meet Nigeria's coffee artist

Ekene Ngige studied fine arts but now uses coffee to create paintings and portraits

22/03/2018

Nigeria

Nigeria: Scores of kidnapped schoolgirls are freed

The government says 76 of the 110 girls abducted in Dapchi last month by Islamist militants have been returned to the northeastern town

21/03/2018

Africanews

Nigeria gov't confirms 110 girls missing after Boko Haram attack

One hundred and ten girls remain unaccounted for following an attack on a school in the town of Dapchi in the northeastern Nigerian state of Yobe, the country’s information ministry said on Sunday.

25/02/2018

Nigeria

Triple suicide attack sparks carnage at Nigerian fish market

The Islamic militant group Boko Haram is believed to be behind the attack in the northern state of Borno

18/02/2018

Nigeria

Nigerian army says hundreds escape Boko Haram detention

More than 700 people held hostage by Nigeria's Boko Haram militants have reportedly escaped.

01/01/2018

Nigeria

At least 50 people killed in a suicide bomb attack in Nigeria

It's northeastern Nigeria's deadliest mass killing in 2017.

21/11/2017

Nigeria

British hostage killed in Nigeria, three others released

The UK Foreign Office confirms David Squire was killed, but three others who were kidnapped at the same time have been freed.

06/11/2017

Nigeria

Nigeria's freed Chibok girls prepare to go home

More than 100 women took part in the 'send forth' dinner organised by the government

14/09/2017

Nigeria

Boko Haram has killed nearly 400 people in five months

Boko Haram has killed nearly 400 people in Nigeria and Cameroon since April

05/09/2017

Nigeria

Girl and baby blown-up in ‘appalling increase’ of human bombs in Nigeria

The number of children blown-up has quadrupled so far in 2017.

23/08/2017

Nigeria

'Chibok girls' ready to return to their communities

Over 100 'Chibok girls' kinapped by Boko Haram militants from the northern Nigerian town are ready to reintegrate into society after months of medical treatment and counseling.

22/08/2017

Nigeria

Suicide bombers strike northeast Nigeria, killing 27

Twenty-seven people have died after a female suicide bomber blew herself up at a market in northeastern Nigeria.

16/08/2017

Nigeria

Deadly shooting spree in Nigerian church

At least 11 people have been killed and 18 wounded in a shooting spree in a church in southeastern Nigeria

07/08/2017

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Nigeria Muslims pray for peace as Ramadan holy month ends

Worshippers gathered in Lagos to mark the Eid-al-Fitr religious holiday

25/06/2017

Nigeria

Nigeria: Freed Chibok girls reunite with families

The 82 girls were released by Boko Haram in exchange for commanders of the jihadist group.

20/05/2017

Nigeria

Nigeria's President Buhari welcomes freed Chibok schoolgirls

Freed Chibok schoolgirls are taken to meet Nigeria's president before being reunited with their families

08/05/2017

Nigeria

Boko Haram frees 82 Chibok school girls

82 Nigerian schoolgirls Kidnapped by Boko Haram three years ago in Chibok have been freed.

07/05/2017

Nigeria

Boko Haram frees 82 Chibok schoolgirls in prisoner swap

Boko Haram militants have released 82 of the more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped in the Nigerian town of Chibok more than three years ago.

07/05/2017

Africanews

Nigeria meningitis death toll rises, 745 killed

A meningitis outbreak in Nigeria has killed 745 people, an increase of more than 50 percent in barely a week, officials said Wednesday, sounding the alarm over the feared epidemic.

20/04/2017

Africanews

1000 days with Boko Haram: any hope for the remaining 196 Chibok schoolgirls?

The world was struck with distraught in April 2014 when Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram raided a school's dormitories at night in the northern town of Chibok and abducted 276 schoolgirls.

14/04/2017

Nigeria

Shell's shady dealings with money launderer revealed in ex-spy's emails

Oil giant Shell has 'changed its tune' as emails emerge showing dealings with a convicted money launderer and point to possible bribery.

11/04/2017

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Thousands displaced as police flatten Nigeria slum

Residents of a Nigerian shantytown on Saturday (18 March) spoke of “losing hope”, a day after security forces used gunfire and tear gas to make way for demolitions in defiance of a recent court order,

19/03/2017