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)...
MEA RISK’s SHIELD & ALERT notifications: Access requires installing Shield & Alert mobile application. More info on S&A here or click here to signup and install
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: 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...
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...
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...
Nigerians vote again for governors
Nigeria's ruling party has won a rerun governorship election in northern Kebbi state, the electoral commission said on...
Nigeria: Borno state remains active area of insurgency with new ambush near Maiduguri
July 13, 2020 - Jihadists shot dead 10 Nigerian soldiers in two incidents in the country's restive northeast on...
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...
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...
Another building collapses in Lagos killing two people
Lagos, July 11, 2020 - A two-storey residential building under renovation collapsed overnight in Nigeria's commercial...
Nigeria’s Buhari signs record spending bill into law, despite weak economy
Abuja, July 10, 2020 - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday signed into law a budget with record spending...
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: Seven killed in oil production facility in Niger Delta
Abuja, July 8, 2020 - An explosion at an oil production facility in southern Nigeria has killed seven workers, the...
Nigerian soldiers killed in ISWAP ambush in Borno
UPDATE July 9, 2020 - The death toll from a jihadist attack on a military convoy in northeast Nigeria has risen from...
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...
Nigeria: 28 killed in two boat accidents in Nigeria
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari urged local officials on Monday to "step up" efforts to find survivors of two...
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: 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: 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...
Nigeria: Insurgents attack Damask, kill two civilians and damage UN helicopter
The United Nations on Saturday said two civilians including a five-year-old child were killed and an aid helicopter...
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...
Four killed in Boko Haram attack on Nigeria’s Maiduguri
Maiduguri, Nigeria, July 30, 2020 - Suspected jihadist fighters attacked the city of Maiduguri, one of the last safe...
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...
Nigeria: Insurgents ambush convoy near Damboa, kill 11 people
Kano, Nigeria, June 28, 2020 - At least nine Nigerian soldiers and two members of a civil defence militia were killed...
Nigeria: Turmoil at the Nigerian ruling party
Abuja, June 23, 2020 - Nigerian police on Tuesday closed the headquarters of the ruling All Progressive Congress to...
Nigeria expresses anger at demolition of embassy building in Ghana
Nigeria summoned a senior Ghanaian diplomat to complain over "attacks" on its embassy compound in Accra that saw a...
Northern Nigeria braces for more violent insurgency
Kano, Nigeria, June 18, 2020 (By Aminu Abubakar and Celia Lebur in Lagos) - The attacks were swift and brutal: fleeing...
ISWAP strikes in Gubio LGA, Borno state
Kano, Nigeria, June 21, 2020 - Jihadists linked to the Islamic State have killed six people in raids on herding...
Doctors in Nigeria halt their strike as Covid-19 cases increase
Lagos, June 21, 2020 - Nigerian doctors in state-run hospitals on Sunday called off a week-long strike over welfare...
Nigeria’s southwest’s pig farmers in turmoil
Lagos, June 19, 2020 (By Joel Olatunde AGOI) - Swine fever has killed thousands of pigs in southwest Nigeria as the...
Nigeria: Debate over subsidies reignites as government seeks to end its support to fuel prices
Lagos, June 14, 2020 (By Celia Lebur and Joel Olatunde Agoi) - Plunging oil prices and collapsing state revenues have...
ISWAP strikes in Nigerian state of Borno again, kills dozens
Kano, Nigeria, June 14, 2020 - Jihadists linked to the Islamic State group killed dozens of people in the latest of a...
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 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...
Six killed in ISWAP attack on Monguno
Kano, Nigeria, June 13, 2020 - Jihadists linked to the Islamic State group killed six people Saturday in an assault on...
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...
Borno state: ISWAP insurgents raid another village in Gubio, dozens killed
Updated June 10, 2020 - The death toll from an attack by jihadists linked to the Islamic State on a village in...
Africa’s newspapers facing collapse amid pandemic
Collapsing revenues, rising layoffs: the coronavirus crisis is battering media outlets across Africa that were already...
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...
ISWAP raids military base in Auno, kills six soldiers
Jihadists have killed six Nigerian troops in an attack on a military base in northeast Nigeria, army sources said...
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...
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: 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’s Buhari backs Africa bank head despite US demands
Abuja, June 2, 2020 - Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari backed the head of the African Development Bank (AfDB) for...
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...