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...
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: 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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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: 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 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 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...