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: 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....
Nigeria’s Conflict Goes Global With Washington Entering the Fight
The United States’ Christmas Day airstrikes in northwestern Nigeria mark a rare but consequential shift in the...
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: New president grapples with many challenges and opportunities
By Patrick Markey: Just a month in power, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has already received foreign entrepreneurs and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Nigeria forces refugees to return to the war zone
By Louise Dewast Usman Mohamed's hometown of Baga on the shores of Lake Chad was once overrun by jihadists, forcing...
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,...
Nigerian army claims it killed Jihadist chief Al-Barnawi: Profile
By Emmanuel Anule: The leader of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) jihadist group, Abu Musab al-Barnawi,...
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 army says it is responsible for spike in Boko Haram surrenders, but ISWAP may be the real reason
By Audu Abba Kurama with Animu Abubakar in Kano Images of bedraggled jihadists and families surrendering to the...
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 gets six A-29 Super Tucanos attack aircraft from the US
Nigeria has received six of 12 turboprop light attack aircraft from the United States to help fight mounting...
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: Boko Haram chief Abubakar Shekau declared dead by rival ISWAP
By Aminu Abubskar When Nigeria's military claimed Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau had been badly wounded in an air...
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: 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: 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...
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: 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...
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...
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...
Killings continue in central Nigeria
Kano, Nigeria - Gunmen have killed 22 people, including 19 vigilantes, in two separate attacks in central Nigeria,...
Nigeria accuses Biafra nationalists of killing two security agents
Lagos, Aug 24, 2020 - Nigeria's secret police say two of its men were killed Sunday by Biafran separatists who in turn...
Growing pressure on army Chief of Staff Tukur Buratai to resign
Abuja, July 21, 2020 - Nigerian senators on Tuesday passed a resolution demanding military chiefs resign for failing...