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...
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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...
Nigeria: ISWAP ambushes army unit, kills several soldiers
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)...
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: 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: 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...
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...
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...
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: 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...
Nigeria eases restrictions on houses of warship
Nigeria's government on Monday said it was easing restrictions on places of worship as it cautiously rolled back more...
Africa: Covid-19 is not alone, other diseases intensify health crisis in Africa
Lagos, May 19, 2020 (By Sophie Bouillon) - African nations grappling to contain coronavirus are scrambling to stop the...
Nigeria seizes British plane for flouting virus flight ban
Lagos, May 17, 2020 - Nigeria has seized a British plane for flouting a travel ban imposed as part of measures to curb...
Nigeria concerned about Covid-19 infections in Kano state
Abuja, May 18, 2020 - Nigeria's government on Monday extended a coronavirus lockdown on the northern region of Kano...
Madagascar sends artemisia drink to Nigeria to fight Covid-19
Abuja, May 16, 2020 - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday received samples of a herbal concoction that...
Nigeria: Communal crisis claims six lives in Adamawa
Kano, Nigeria, May 16, 2020 - Six people were killed in ethnic violence in northern Nigeria's Adamawa state, police...