By Camille Malpat with Aminu Abubakar in Kano, Nigeria: Political leaders in Nigeria are urging President Bola Tinubu to reconsider a threatened military intervention against junta leaders in neighbouring Niger, ahead of a Sunday deadline to reinstate the country's...
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Nigeria grapples with end of fuel subsidy
By Alexandre Martins Lopes: Nigerians are struggling with surging fuel prices after newly elected President Bola Tinubu declared an end to popular subsidies, a move analysts and experts said was long overdue. On his first day in office, Tinubu kept to his campaign...
Nigeria: Bandits raid six villages in north, kill 30 civilians
Armed men killed 30 people in weekend raids on six villages in Nigeria's north, a region regularly hit by criminal violence and clashes between communities, local police have said. The bloodshed is the latest outbreak of inter-communal violence which the country's...
Nigeria: ISWAP ambushes army unit, kills several soldiers
Several Nigerian soldiers died in an attack on a military convoy in the Lake Chad region by jihadist fighters aligned with the Islamic State group, security forces said Tuesday. The convoy was hit by militants from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP)...
Nigeria: Human Rights Watch accuses Nigeria army over civilian drone strike victims
A leading rights group urged Nigeria's army on Tuesday to take responsibility for a drone strike that killed 39 civilians in January, calling for compensation for the victims and their families. The army eventually admitted ordering the strike near the town of Rukubi,...
Nigeria: Cash-strapped Boko Haram kidnaps herders for ransom
Boko Haram jihadists have kidnapped 30 ethnic Fulani herders near northeast Nigeria's Lake Chad, demanding ransom for their release, fishermen and the head of an anti-jihadist militia told AFP Tuesday. The militants in eight boats stormed the fishing and herding...
Nigeria: Two dead after fire sweeps though displaced camp of Muna Alamdari in Borno
At least two children died when fire swept through an informal camp for displaced people in northeast Nigeria,...
Nigeria’s election runner-up, Atiku Abubakar, files appeal over election challenge
The runner-up in Nigeria's presidential election in February on Tuesday filed an appeal to the Supreme Court to...
Sahel: Boko Haram strikes in Konduga, Nigeria, killing 13
Suspected Boko Haram jihadists have killed 13 people including three soldiers in two separate attacks in northeast...
Nigeria: Adamawa state imposes curfew to curtail looting
Authorities in Nigeria's northeastern Adamawa state on Sunday imposed a statewide round-the-clock curfew to stop...
Nigeria: New president grapples with many challenges and opportunities
By Patrick Markey: Just a month in power, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has already received foreign entrepreneurs and...
Nigeria ends segmentation of Forex markets, OKs free trading on naira
Nigeria's central bank has abolished the country's multiple exchange rate system and effectively floated the naira...
African space tech? Don’t rule it out, says Nigeria’s startup king
By Joseph Boyle: Iyinoluwa Aboyeji might not have the personal wealth of Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg, but his level...
Nigeria grapples with end of fuel subsidy
By Alexandre Martins Lopes: Nigerians are struggling with surging fuel prices after newly elected President Bola...
Nigeria: Bandits raid six villages in north, kill 30 civilians
Armed men killed 30 people in weekend raids on six villages in Nigeria's north, a region regularly hit by criminal...
Nigeria: Human Rights Watch accuses Nigeria army over civilian drone strike victims
A leading rights group urged Nigeria's army on Tuesday to take responsibility for a drone strike that killed 39...
Nigeria: Cash-strapped Boko Haram kidnaps herders for ransom
Boko Haram jihadists have kidnapped 30 ethnic Fulani herders near northeast Nigeria's Lake Chad, demanding ransom for...
Nigerians vote again for governors
Nigeria's ruling party has won a rerun governorship election in northern Kebbi state, the electoral commission said on...
Nigeria: Separatist tensions flare in Anambra as gunmen kill five troops
Gunmen killed five soldiers and a civilian in southeast Nigeria, police and local media said Thursday, after the...
Nigeria: Campaigning for Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election begins
Campaigning for Nigeria's 2023 presidential election got off to a low-key start on Wednesday, with candidates holding...
Nigerian town caught between jihadist war and peace
By Camille Malpat: Once a symbol of the jihadist war in northeast Nigeria, the town of Bama today betrays the grinding...
Insurgencies: Boko Haram fighters pouring into Niger’s side of Lake Chad
Hundreds of Boko Haram jihadists have fled a forest enclave in northeast Nigeria, escaping air strikes by the military...
Nigeria: Gunmen kill five, including Indian national in Ajaokuta, Kogi state
Gunmen have killed five people, including one Indian, in Nigeria's Kogi state, police said Saturday, with the region...
Jihadists kill six Nigerian fishermen in Cameroon
Suspected jihadists have killed six Nigerian fishermen in Cameroon's Far North region, close to the Lake Chad hideouts...
Libya: Violent clashes in west Tripoli
Violent clashes rocked a western area of the Libyan capital overnight and until Sunday morning, an interior ministry...
Gunmen kill three police in restive southeast Nigeria
Suspected separatists in southeast Nigeria have killed three policemen and wounded two others, police on Friday....
Nigeria: State of Kano getting more conservative, unleashes religious police
Religious police in northern Nigeria's city of Kano have destroyed nearly four million bottles of beer, on grounds...
Nigeria forces refugees to return to the war zone
By Louise Dewast Usman Mohamed's hometown of Baga on the shores of Lake Chad was once overrun by jihadists, forcing...
Nigeria: Three bodies recovered after last week’s fire on oil vessel
The operator of a Nigerian oil vessel that exploded and sank last week said on Monday three bodies had now been...
Nigeria says oil ship fire extinguished
A blaze caused by an explosion on an oil ship that sparked fears of an environmental disaster off southern Nigeria has...
Denmark’s navy patrol unit sinks pirate ship off Nigeria, kills four
A Danish naval patrol killed four pirates in an exchange of fire in the Gulf of Guinea off the coast of Nigeria,...
Nigeria: Buhari’s ruling party APC defeated in Anambra state election
A former central bank governor won a key election in southeast Nigeria, results showed on Wednesday, beating President...
Nigeria: Dozens killed in building collapse in Lagos
By Camille Malplat and Joel Olatinde Agoi The death toll from the collapse of a high-rise building in an upscale area...
Lagos, Nigeria: High-rise building collapses in Lagos, people trapped
A high-rise building under construction collapsed in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos on Monday, burying people...
Nigerian army claims it killed Jihadist chief Al-Barnawi: Profile
By Emmanuel Anule: The leader of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) jihadist group, Abu Musab al-Barnawi,...
Nigerian actor arrested for alleged support to IPOB separatist group
Nigerian troops have arrested a well-known Nollywood actor for allegedly inciting support for a banned separatist...
Nigeria: Gunmen release dozens of kidnapped students
By Aminu Abubakar: Nigerian gunmen have freed the remaining pupils from more than 100 kidnapped from an Islamic...
Nigeria army says it is responsible for spike in Boko Haram surrenders, but ISWAP may be the real reason
By Audu Abba Kurama with Animu Abubakar in Kano Images of bedraggled jihadists and families surrendering to the...
Nigeria: Curfew in Jos amid exploding violence
By Muhammad Tanko Shittu: A central Nigerian city caught up in intercommunal tensions remained under 24-hour curfew on...
Nigerian doctors begin strike over pay, inadequate facilities
Doctors in Nigeria's state-run hospitals on Monday began a strike over pay, insurance benefits and poor facilities,...
Nigeria gets six A-29 Super Tucanos attack aircraft from the US
Nigeria has received six of 12 turboprop light attack aircraft from the United States to help fight mounting...
Nigeria: 28 kidnapped students released in Nigeria
Gunmen who seized 121 students at a high school in northwestern Nigeria in early July have released another 28...
Nigeria: Four kidnapped Chinese workers regain their freedom
Four Chinese rail workers kidnapped last week in southwest Nigeria have been released, police said Tuesday. The four...
Nigeria: 15 kidnapped students escape their abductors
Fifteen Nigerian hostages have escaped from their abductors as they slept, weeks after they were among more than 130...
Nigeria: Boko Haram chief Abubakar Shekau declared dead by rival ISWAP
By Aminu Abubskar When Nigeria's military claimed Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau had been badly wounded in an air...
Nigeria blocks access to Twitter
Telecoms operators in Nigeria restricted Twitter Saturday, a day after the government announced its indefinite...
Nigeria: Boat capsizes near Shagari, kills at least 13
Thirteen people died in northwest Nigeria's Sokoto state when a boat ferrying wedding guests capsized, officials said,...
Nigeria: Gunmen kill 66 people in Wasagu/Danko
A gang of cattle thieves killed 66 people in raids on seven villages in northwest Nigeria's Kebbi state, police told...
Nigeria: Chaos in northeast Nigeria as jihadist groups compete for leadership
By Aminu Abubakar For years, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau was a dreaded figure in Nigeria's insurgency,...