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...
Covid-19: Nigeria anticipates the rollout of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, details sketchy
Nigerian authorities have warned on Friday against the circulation of fake coronavirus vaccines in the country, where...
Nigeria braces for more Covid-19 cases
Nigeria's health minister has warned of a second wave in the coronavirus pandemic following a sudden rise in...
Nigeria: Outbreak of yellow fever in Nigeria
A yellow fever outbreak in Nigeria has killed 172 people so far, the World Health Organization said Friday. The...
Nigerian health workers suspend strike over hazard pay
Nigerian health workers have suspended a week-long strike over pay, Covid-19 bonuses and inadequate facilities, unions...
Nigeria: Edo residents brave Covid-19 to vote for governor
Nigerians in the southern state of Edo braved the coronavirus and voted Saturday to elect a new governor in the...
Nigeria: Another strike of health workers over benefits
Nigerian health workers launched a strike Monday over pay, Covid-19 bonuses and inadequate facilities, union leaders...
Nigerian doctors to strike over pay
Lagos, Sept 5, 2020 - Doctors in state-run hospitals in Nigeria will go on strike next week to demand a pay rise,...
Health: No more polio in Africa
Lagos, Aug 25, 2020 - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday declared that Africa was free of the virus that...
Nigeria to resume international flights end of August
Lagos, Aug 17, 2020 - Nigeria will resume international flights on August 29 as it eases restrictions over the novel...
Lagos reopens mosques on 7 July, churches on 9 July
The governor of Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos said on Saturday churches and mosques would reopen next week as the...
New strike in the public health sector in Nigeria
Lagos, July 13, 2020 - Doctors in Nigeria's largest city Lagos began a three-day warning strike on Monday over welfare...
Nigeria: Cross River government says state has no Covid-19 cases, doctors disagree
Lagos, July 6, 2020 - Doctors in Nigeria's Cross River state began an indefinite strike on Monday in protest over...
Nigeria: Kano state ends three-month lockdown
Authorities in northern Nigeria's biggest city Kano have lifted a three-month lockdown imposed to contain a...
Nigeria to resume domestic flights on 8 July
Lagos, July 2, 2020 - Nigeria will resume domestic flights from next Wednesday, the aviation minister said, in a move...
Nigeria: Despite rise in new cases, Nigeria looks the other way and eases lockdown
Nigeria on Monday said it was allowing children to go back to school to take exams and permitting cross-country travel...
Nigerian doctors go on strike while continuing to care for virus patients
Abuja, June 15, 2020 - Nigerian doctors in state-run hospitals went on strike Monday over complaints on welfare and...
Covid-19 wrecking havoc in Kano state
Lagos, June 9, 2020 - Nigerian authorities have linked the deaths of up to 600 people in the country's second largest...
Nigeria eases restrictions on houses of warship
Nigeria's government on Monday said it was easing restrictions on places of worship as it cautiously rolled back more...
Africa: Covid-19 is not alone, other diseases intensify health crisis in Africa
Lagos, May 19, 2020 (By Sophie Bouillon) - African nations grappling to contain coronavirus are scrambling to stop the...
Nigeria seizes British plane for flouting virus flight ban
Lagos, May 17, 2020 - Nigeria has seized a British plane for flouting a travel ban imposed as part of measures to curb...
Nigeria concerned about Covid-19 infections in Kano state
Abuja, May 18, 2020 - Nigeria's government on Monday extended a coronavirus lockdown on the northern region of Kano...
Madagascar sends artemisia drink to Nigeria to fight Covid-19
Abuja, May 16, 2020 - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday received samples of a herbal concoction that...