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: 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: 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: 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: State of Kano getting more conservative, unleashes religious police
Religious police in northern Nigeria's city of Kano have destroyed nearly four million bottles of beer, on grounds...
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...
Nigeria: Three bodies recovered after last week’s fire on oil vessel
The operator of a Nigerian oil vessel that exploded and sank last week said on Monday three bodies had now been...
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...
Nigeria: Dozens killed in building collapse in Lagos
By Camille Malplat and Joel Olatinde Agoi The death toll from the collapse of a high-rise building in an upscale area...
Lagos, Nigeria: High-rise building collapses in Lagos, people trapped
A high-rise building under construction collapsed in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos on Monday, burying people...
Nigerian actor arrested for alleged support to IPOB separatist group
Nigerian troops have arrested a well-known Nollywood actor for allegedly inciting support for a banned separatist...
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: 28 kidnapped students released in Nigeria
Gunmen who seized 121 students at a high school in northwestern Nigeria in early July have released another 28...
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 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,...
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: 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...
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 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: 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: 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...
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...
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...
Building collapses in Lagos, Nigeria, killing eight
Emergency services were clearing debris of a collapsed building on Monday in the densely populated city of Lagos in...
Fuel truck blast kills five in Lagos
A gas-laden truck exploded and caught fire early Thursday in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos, leaving five dead and...
Nigerian health workers suspend strike over hazard pay
Nigerian health workers have suspended a week-long strike over pay, Covid-19 bonuses and inadequate facilities, unions...
Nigeria: Edo residents brave Covid-19 to vote for governor
Nigerians in the southern state of Edo braved the coronavirus and voted Saturday to elect a new governor in the...
Nigeria: Another strike of health workers over benefits
Nigerian health workers launched a strike Monday over pay, Covid-19 bonuses and inadequate facilities, union leaders...
Nigeria: Fuel prices up double-digit, as government dumps subsidy program
Tempers have risen in Nigeria along with prices after the oil-rich nation dumped a controversial petrol subsidy system...
Nigerian doctors to strike over pay
Lagos, Sept 5, 2020 - Doctors in state-run hospitals in Nigeria will go on strike next week to demand a pay rise,...
Two boat accidents claim 12 lives in Nigeria
Lagos, Sept 1, 2020 - Twelve people have been killed in two separate boat accidents in Nigeria, officials said on...
Health: No more polio in Africa
Lagos, Aug 25, 2020 - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday declared that Africa was free of the virus that...
Nigeria to resume international flights end of August
Lagos, Aug 17, 2020 - Nigeria will resume international flights on August 29 as it eases restrictions over the novel...
Lagos reopens mosques on 7 July, churches on 9 July
The governor of Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos said on Saturday churches and mosques would reopen next week as the...
Boat capsizes in Lagos, several casualties
Lagos, Aug 1, 2020 - Ten people were killed, five rescued and four others went missing when a passenger boat capsized...
Another fuel tanker explosion along Benin-Sapele expressway
Lagos, July 22, 2020 - An explosion killed at least three people Wednesday after a fuel truck overturned and spilt its...
Nigerian authorities crackdown on informal religious schools
By Aminu Abubakar: Two dozen boys read verses of the Koran aloud on the dilapidated veranda of one of the thousands of...
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...
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: 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...
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: 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...