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...
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Nigeria: New president starts job on shaky ground after nearly tripling fuel prices
By Alexandre Martins Lopes with Louise Dewast in Abuja and Aminu Abubakar in Kano: Commuting to work in Lagos, Nigeria's megacity of some 20 million people, has long been a hellish affair, but a surge in petrol prices is making it even worse. Fuel prices have almost...
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 latest bloodshed in a region where separatist tensions often flare. Wednesday's attack on troops in Umunze area of Anambra state was condemned by 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 a book launch and rallies or postponing official inaugurations. Five months before the ballot, four top candidates are emerging in a tight battle to...
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 nature of a 13-year conflict, caught between reconstruction and fighting that still rages beyond its borders. In September 2014, Boko Haram fighters...
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 and floods from torrential rains to seek shelter on Niger's side of Lake Chad, sources told AFP. Northeast Nigeria is facing a 13-year armed...
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...
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