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: 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: 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: 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: Nearly 2,000 inmates escape Owerri prison after daring attack
More than 1,800 inmates have escaped after heavily armed men attacked a prison in southwest Nigeria using explosives,...
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 seizes pangolin scales bound for Vietnam
Nigeria has seized pangolin scales and tusks and bones from endangered species allegedly bound for export to Vietnam,...
Nigeria: Children kidnapped from orphanage in Abaji, outside Abuja
Seven children and an adult were kidnapped from an orphanage by unknown criminals outside Nigeria's capital Abuja,...
Nigeria: Curfew in and around city of Orlu amid explosive violence
Authorities have declared a curfew in and around a city in southeastern Nigeria after clashes erupted between the army...
Nigeria: Greek ship crew held hostage after Nigeria kidnapping
A ship management company is in talks to free three Greek sailors kidnapped earlier this month by pirates off the...
Nigeria: Ex-footballer Obodo escapes from Nigeria kidnappers
Former Nigeria midfielder Christian Obodo, who spent over a decade in Serie A, including spells with Fiorentina and...
Nigeria: Nation on the edge: looting intensifies in Abuja
Huge crowds ransacked food warehouses in Nigeria's capital Abuja on Monday in the latest looting to hit the country...
Fed up with police abuse and brutality, Nigerians continue to protest
Nigerians took to the streets once again Tuesday in several cities for fresh protests against police brutality,...
Nigeria disbands violent police unit SARS
Nigeria on Sunday announced the dissolution of a special police unit tackling serious crimes after an outcry over...
Nigeria: How corruption is ruining Nigeria and its people
Warri, Nigeria, Sept 2, 2020 - Investigators are looking for billions of dollars in missing or stolen funds from a...
Chinese workers freed from kidnappers
Warri, Nigeria - Four Chinese workers abducted from a quarry site in southern Nigeria have been freed, police said...
Head of AfDB, Akinwumi Adesina, cleared of wrongdoing by independent panel
An independent panel of experts, headed by former Irish president Mary Robinson, has cleared the beleaguered leader of...
Former and current ENI CEOs in trouble over alleged bribery in Nigeria
North Africa Journal's editor's note: Although this case is on ENI's alleged corruption case in Nigeria, ENI's...
Kidnapped US national released in Lagos
A US woman lured to Nigeria on a promise of marriage and held for more than a year by an internet fraudster, has been...
Nigeria’s Buhari suspends EFCC’s Ibrahim Magu over ethics breaches
Abuja, July 10, 2020 - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has suspended the head of the country's anti-graft body...
Nigeria: Head of anti-corruption agency investigated for corruption
Abuja, July 7, 2020 - The head of Nigeria's main anti-graft agency has been questioned by an investigative panel over...
Covid-19 confinement in Nigeria leads to spike in rape cases
Abuja, June 15, 2020 - Nigeria's police chief on Monday said the country had seen a sharp increase in cases of rape...
How to fake your own abduction and get arrested for it
A 17-year-old girl in southwestern Nigeria who allegedly faked her own kidnap to demand a ransom from her mother has...
Nigeria: Anger over growing violence against women
Lagos, June 2, 2020 (By Sophie Bouillon with Aminu Abubakar in Kano)- Nigerians angered over a series of high-profile...