Nigeria’s Woro massacre in early February 2026 was a large‑scale attack on two mainly Muslim farming communities that left Muslim and Christian civilians dead, including adults and children, community leaders, and people living on the economic margins. Local leaders...
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Nigeria Adjusts Airstrike Strategy Under Expanded U.S. Security Cooperation
Nigeria is adjusting how it conducts air operations against armed groups as part of an updated security arrangement with the United States. Under the new framework, Nigerian fighter aircraft will increasingly rely on U.S. reconnaissance and intelligence-gathering...
Nigeria: Questions Mount Over U.S. Airstrikes in Northern Nigeria
By Leslie Varenne, MondAfrique: The American strikes carried out in Nigeria on Christmas Day raise serious questions. Beyond the confusion surrounding the objectives of the operation, inconsistencies in official statements, and the unclear nature of the targets, the...
U.S. Immigration Policy and the Changing Landscape of Africa-U.S. Travel
As the United States prepares to implement a new round of immigration and visa policy changes in 2026, the effects are being felt across Africa and parts of the Middle East. What began as a technical overhaul of screening and enforcement procedures has evolved into a...
Nigerian president Tinubu under pressure to avoid war with northern neighbor Niger
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...
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...
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...
Gunmen kill three police in restive southeast Nigeria
Suspected separatists in southeast Nigeria have killed three policemen and wounded two others, police on Friday....
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: 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: 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...
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: Kidnappings in northwest and central Nigeria escalate, three abducted students killed
By Aminu Abubakar with Louise Dewast in Abuja - Three abducted Nigerian students have been shot dead by their...
Nigeria: Residents of Owerri frightened by hordes of escaped inmates
Tension gripped a town in southeastern Nigeria on Tuesday, a day after gunmen blasted their way into a prison, freed...
Nigeria army finds five kidnapped students
Nigerian soldiers have found five of the dozens of students kidnapped last month from their college in the country's...
Nigeria: Kaduna state outlaws negotiations with student kidnappers
Authorities in Nigeria's northwest Kaduna state have warned they will prosecute anyone who negotiates with the...
Nigeria: Who are the ‘bandits’ behind Nigeria’s mass kidnappings?
By Camille Malplat andh Louise Dewast in Abuja - For the past decade, criminal gangs in northwest Nigeria have...
Nigeria: Chaos in Katsina after gunmen kidnapped more than 300 boys
Outrage is simmering in Nigeria after gunmen kidnapped hundreds of secondary school students, while the government...
‘Armed bandits’ kill 10 in northern Nigeria’s Kaduna state
Armed assailants killed at least 10 civilians in attacks on two villages in a restive area of northern Nigeria,...
Killings continue in central Nigeria
Kano, Nigeria - Gunmen have killed 22 people, including 19 vigilantes, in two separate attacks in central Nigeria,...
Students kidnapped in Kaduna
Kano, Nigeria, Aug 25, 2020 - Gunmen have kidnapped seven students along with their female teacher from a secondary...
Chinese workers freed from kidnappers
Warri, Nigeria - Four Chinese workers abducted from a quarry site in southern Nigeria have been freed, police said...
Bandits raid Ukuru in Niger state, kill 14 residents
Dozens of armed cattle thieves killed 14 people and stole herds during a raid on a village in central Nigeria, police...
Nigeria: Fresh violence in Kaduna claims more lives
Gunmen have killed 21 villagers in northern Nigeria's Kaduna state, police said Friday, in the latest deadly violence...
Gunmen kill 14 villagers in central Nigeria
Lagos, July 29, 2020 - Gunmen killed 14 villagers in central Nigeria's Kogi state on Wednesday, police said, blaming...
Nigeria: Armed gang kills policeman and kidnap Chinese workers in Oban, Cross River
Lagos, July 22, 2020 - Gunmen have kidnapped four Chinese workers from a quarry site in southern Nigeria and shot dead...
Gunmen kill 18 wedding guests in Kaura, Kaduna
Kano, Nigeria, July 20, 2020 - Gunmen have killed 18 guests at a wedding in northern Nigeria's Kaduna state, local...
Zamfara state offers cows for bandits to stop violence
Kano, Nigeria, July 17, 2020 - Authorities in Nigeria's northwestern Zamfara state have offered two cows for each gun...
Nigeria: Cattle thieves strike in Katsina, kill 15 villagers
Gunmen on Monday killed 15 farmers in Nigeria's northwest Katsina state, police said, in the latest violence by cattle...
Nigeria: Sea pirates strike again, kidnap Chinese sailors in the Gulf of Guinea
Five Chinese sailors were abducted by pirates last week from a cargo ship in Nigerian waters, the Chinese foreign...
Bandits strike in Kastina state, sow terror in six remote villages
Kano, Nigeria, June 10, 2020 (AFP) - Armed gangs killed 57 people in a string of attacks on villages in northwest...
Sea pirates release foreign fishermen to Nigeria after month-long captivity
Seoul, June 9, 2020 - Six fishing boat crewmen abducted by pirates off the coast of Gabon have been released after...
Nigeria: Bandits attack villages in Maru LGA, 21 killed
Kano, Nigeria, June 5, 2020 - Armed gangs have killed 21 people in the latest bloody assaults on villages in restive...
Nigeria: Dozen civilian militiamen killed by bandits in Katsina
Thirteen people died when villagers fought back against armed cattle thieves in northern Nigeria where rustling has...