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Nigeria

Gunmen kill one and abduct students from school in Nigeria

Nigerian media report gunmen abducted around 200 students from the Salihu Tanko Islamic School.

31/05/2021

Nigeria

More than 100 missing, feared dead after Nigeria boat sinks

More than 165 passengers were on the boat. Twenty-two have so far been rescued and five bodies recovered, including a baby less than a year old.

27/05/2021

Nigeria

Nigeria's Chief of Army staff dies in plane crash

Attahiru had been appointed to the position earlier this year by President Muhammadu Buhari.

22/05/2021

Germany

Gemany agrees to repatriate Nigerian bronzes looted in colonial times

In an historic move Germany has agreed to repatriate hundreds of Benin Bronzes in the Humboldt-Forum museum in Berlin to Nigeria next year.

01/05/2021

Nigeria

Nigeria: Gunmen abduct 30 students in school school attack

The latest abduction took place late Thursday night at the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka, in the Igabi local government area of Kaduna state, police said.

12/03/2021

Nigeria

Nigerian governor says 279 kidnapped schoolgirls are freed

The girls were abducted from their boarding school by gunmen last Friday.

02/03/2021

Nigeria

Police and army in bid to rescue 317 schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria

Unidentified gunmen stormed the Government Girls Secondary School in the town of Jangebe and took the girls away, say police.

27/02/2021

Nigeria

Police confirm abduction of at least 317 girls in Zamfara state

Gunmen abducted 317 girls from a boarding school in northern Nigeria on Friday, police said.

26/02/2021

World News

Nigeria's Okonjo-Iweala to head struggling world trade body

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the former Nigerian minister of finance, was appointed on Monday to run the World Trade Organization.

15/02/2021

Nigeria

Energy giant Shell liable for Nigeria oil spill, Dutch court rules

Environmental groups hail appeals court ruling ordering Shell's Nigerian subsidiary to compensate farmers whose land was polluted

29/01/2021

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Schoolboys kidnapped in northwest Nigeria released

More than 300 schoolboys kidnapped last week in an attack on their school in northwest Nigeria have returned home.

19/12/2020

Nigeria

300 schoolboys kidnapped in Nigeria have been freed - state governor

The abduction of more than 300 boys bears chilling similarities to the kidnapping of more than 270 schoolgirls by Boko Haram in 2014. About 100 of those girls are still missing.

17/12/2020

Nigeria

Boko Haram claim to be behind kidnapping of students in Nigeria

The jihadist terror group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of students in Nigeria.

15/12/2020

The Cube

Facebook admits to incorrectly labeling #EndSARS content

"We apologise for letting down our community", said a Facebook spokesperson after the company admitted that Instagram posts in support of #EndSARS were incorrectly labeled as misleading.

22/10/2020

The Cube

What is the #EndSars movement in Nigeria?

The #EndSars hashtag has been trending for weeks, calling for an end to police brutality in Nigeria.

21/10/2020

Nigeria

'Many dead' after Nigeria security forces shoot on protesters: Amnesty

The NGO says there is 'credible but disturbing evidence' of fatal shootings in Lagos involving #endSARS protesters against police brutality

21/10/2020

Nigeria

Nigerian police arrest two men over Germany PPE 'scam'

Authorities say the two suspects falsely represented a Dutch company to order personal protective equipment from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

07/09/2020

Nigeria

Libya was hell, but for Nigeria’s migrants, home isn't much better

Europe paid over 300 million euros to send people like Evelin back to their home nations. It forgot about her once she was there. As Euronews' repatriation investigation continues, we hear another horrific story from those who took part in the scheme.

21/06/2020

World

Cultural showcase, Media for the deaf, and Anti covid-19 comedy

Though the world is affected by the coronavirus pandemic, inspiring stories still abound all around us.

27/05/2020

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Fire kills 14 at camp for displaced people in north-east Nigeria

Fourteen people were killed on Thursday in a fire at a camp housing tens of thousands of people displaced by jihadist violence in north-east Nigeria.

17/04/2020