Nigerian air raids aimed at stopping herdsmen-farmer clashes killed at least 35 people in December, Amnesty International said Tuesday, describing the government’s response as “unlawful”. In...
More than 40 men have been arrested in Nigeria over the weekend for performing homosexual acts, police say. They are due to appear in court later....
More than 40 people have died during an attempt to free people during an ambush by militant Islam group Boko Haram, sources have told the BBC....
Charges have been dropped against a 41-year-old Nigerian man who named his dog after President Muhammadu Buhari. Joachim Iroko, a market trader also known as Joe...
More than half the world’s children who are not being educated are in Nigeria, the country’s government has said. Acknowledging the scale of the problem the...
A group of the “Chibok girls” freed from Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants have been reunited with their families. The 82 girls, who were part of a...
A schoolgirl believed to have been abducted by Boko Haram three years ago has been rescued by government troops while “escaping from captivity”, Nigerian officials said on...
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari will travel to London on Sunday for follow-up medical tests after weeks of mounting concern about his health. Femi Adesina, his spokesman,...
An outbreak of meningitis in several states of Nigeria has killed at least 140 people, officials say. It has been reported over the last week in...
Dozens of Boko Haram fighters have given themselves up to authorities in southern Niger, the interior minister said, days after the Islamist group suffered key losses...
As many as 50 people were killed after a church in Uyo, Nigeria, collapsed on worshippers, officials said. Akwa Ibom Gov. Udom Emmanuel was at Reigners...