Gunmen attacked a village in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Kaduna, killing 34 people and injuring seven others, local authorities said on Monday. Criminal gangs known locally...
A suspected Christian militia attacked a convoy of 90 Muslims on Saturday in Nigeria’s central Plateau state, leaving at least 22 people dead, police said. Northwest...
Ghana has confirmed an outbreak of bird flu in three of its 16 regions that could affect about 600,000 farm animals. The highly pathogenic avian influenza...
After Dr. Ifeanyi Nsofor and his wife received two doses of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine in Nigeria, they assumed they would be free to travel this summer...
Parents of the most recent group of students abducted in northern Nigeria are calling for international pressure on the government to help stop a series of...
Coca-Cola Co.’s Nigeria unit said it has seen a threefold increase in e-commerce sales this year after virus-induced lockdowns inspired a change in consumer habits in...
Millions of Nigerians were unable to access Twitter Saturday after the government enforced an indefinite suspension of the microblogging platform’s operations in Nigeria. The Association of...
Information Minister Lai Mohammed says Nigeria’s government acted because of ‘the persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence’...
The U.N. human rights office voiced concern on Monday about more than a dozen countries that have declared states of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic...
A pipeline explosion on Sunday killed at least 15 people and destroyed about 50 buildings after a fire broke out in a suburb of Lagos, Nigeria’s...
Rwanda has confirmed its first case of coronavirus, an Indian citizen who arrived in the East African nation from Mumbai on March 8, the Health Ministry...