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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

World News

Nigeria's Buhari returns home after extended medical stay

The president of Africa's most populous nation has spent the past three months in Britain

20/08/2017

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

Cult

Bring on the Boys: Men's Fashion Week in New York

Up-and-coming designers have been making their mark

11/07/2017

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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

News

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

News

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

Chad

'Alarming' rise in Boko Haram child suicide bombings

In the first three months of this year, 27 children have blown themselves up for the Islamist militant group, three times more than in the same period a year ago.

12/04/2017

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

Chad

Three million at risk of famine in Lake Chad region

Launching a funding appeal, the UN says drought, chronic poverty and Boko Haram Islamic militants have led to the emergency.

24/02/2017

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Nigeria fire: blaze rips through Lagos suburb

A fire has ripped through a local suburb in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos.

21/02/2017

Nigeria

Scores dead as Nigerian warplane mistakenly strikes refugee camp

Many dead a Nigerian attack plane hits refugee camp

17/01/2017