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...
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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 violence and clashes between communities, local police have said. The bloodshed is the latest outbreak of inter-communal violence which the country's...
Nigerian army drone hits village in Kaduna State, kills civilians
By Aminu Abubakar with Laurie Churchman in Abuja: An army drone strike accidentally hit a village in northwestern...
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...
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,...
Nigeria: 136 children kidnapped in Niger state, negotiations underway for their release
A Nigerian state government said it was negotiating with gunmen who seized 136 children from an Islamic seminary at...
Nigeria: Reports of Boko Haram chief wounded in attack by rival group
By Camille Malplat with Aminu Abubakar in Kano In the 12 years since Nigeria's jihadist insurgency erupted in the...
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: 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...
Nigerian people angry at Buhari’s medical trip to the UK
Critics of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari have launched an outcry after he flew to London for a medical visit,...
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...
Sahel: Unfolding humanitarian crisis in Niger with growing masses of refugees from Nigeria and from within
The United Nations warned Tuesday that bloodshed in northwestern Nigeria was fuelling an exodus into neighbouring...
Nigeria: As military leadership takes over, insurgents continue to stage attacks
At least 30 people were kidnapped and a dozen others killed in a series of attacks in northwest Nigeria, witnesses...
Nigeria: Hundreds of Nigerians stuck in Saudi Arabia return home
Nigeria on Thursday repatriated nearly 400 of its citizens stranded by the coronavirus pandemic for months in Saudi...
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: Reshuffle of military leadership confirms Buhari’s disastrous security strategy
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday replaced the country's top military commanders in a sudden overhaul...
Nigeria: Army retakes military base from jihadists in Marte, Borno state
Nigerian troops regained control of a military base in the northeast hours after it was seized by jihadists, sources...
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: Relief in Katsina after release of hundreds of kidnapped boys
Exhausted and dishevelled, several hundred Nigerian schoolboys seized in a mass abduction claimed by Boko Haram...
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...
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 enters US blacklist on religious freedom
Blacklisting Nigeria The United States on Monday placed Nigeria for the first time on a religious freedom blacklist,...
Nigeria: Army attempt to raid ISWAP camp ends with death of 10 soldiers
Ten Nigerian troops were killed and one was taken hostage in clashes with IS-linked jihadists in northeast Nigerian...
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...
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: Massacre in northeast Nigeria
A weekend attack on farm workers in northeast Nigeria blamed on the Boko Haram jihadist group left at least 110 dead,...
Nigeria: Covid and economic recession on track to drag Nigeria into more instability
More than 200 million Nigerians will slide further into poverty as the coronavirus pandemic has sent oil prices...
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...
Africa: Chaos and unrest in Nigeria
Buildings were torched in Nigeria's biggest city Lagos on Wednesday as authorities shut down the economic hub, after...
Nigeria declares 24-hour curfew in Lagos amid escalating protests
Authorities declared a 24-hour curfew in Nigeria's economic hub Lagos on Tuesday as violence flared in widespread...
Africa: 15 killed since start of anti-police protests in Nigeria
Crowds took to the streets again in Nigeria's largest cities on Monday as the death toll rose in snowballing protests...
Nigerians fed up with police brutality and a decrepit government
Protests against police brutality in Nigeria have brought Africa's largest city to a standstill and dominated social...
‘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,...
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...