Weeks into Nigeria’s crucial annual rainy season, farmers across the north are abandoning their lands due to attacks by armed groups, threatening the food supply of Africa’s most populous country.
Portugal beat Nigeria 2–1 in a World Cup warm-up on Wednesday, with goals from Pedro Neto and Francisco Conceicao making up for an off night for Cristiano Ronaldo...
A first group of more than 260 Nigerians repatriated from South Africa following escalating anti-immigrant attacks landed in Lagos on Thursday...
Military-run Niger has enacted a new penal code criminalising for the first time same-sex relations, with heavy sentences of up to 20 years in prison, a legal source said Thursday quoting the official gazette...
Nigeria is planning to repatriate more than 1,000 of its nationals from South Africa as anti-immigrant tensions rise in the country, long a destination for documented and undocumented African workers.
Criminal gangs have killed at least 37 people in two days of attacks on a rural community in northwest Nigeria’s Sokoto state, a security report and residents said...
Economic crunch, rising petrol prices triggered by the Middle East war and insurgency have driven costs of sheep up in Nigeria ahead of Eid-ul-Azha...
Boko Haram jihadists have killed 33 fishermen and loggers in two attacks in Nigeria’s restive Borno state in the country’s northeast, two sources said Wednesday...
Forty-six people, most of them children, were kidnapped during an attack on three schools in southwest Nigerian last week, the Christian Association of Nigeria said on Monday...
A senior Islamic State group leader, described as ‘the most active terrorist in the world’, has been killed in a joint operation by US and Nigerian forces in the west African country, the two countries’ presidents said...
Suspected jihadists on Friday abducted dozens of school pupils in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, parents and local residents told AFP...
Nigeria’s military said it killed at least 50 jihadists during clashes this week at a base in the country’s northeast, the heartland of a long-running Islamist insurgency.
Junta-run Niger on Friday suspended nine media organisations from former colonial ruler France, saying they threatened public order.
Nigeria’s government has summoned South Africa’s top diplomat in Abuja over attacks on foreigners in the country, the foreign ministry said Saturday...
A state-backed Nigerian militia, operating alongside the military, killed scores of ethnic Fulani herders in a raid, local sources have told AFP...
Gunmen raided an unregistered orphanage in central Nigeria’s Kogi state and kidnapped at least 23 children, authorities said on Monday, with eight still missing after a partial rescue operation...
Fourteen people were abducted in central Nigeria’s Benue state while traveling to sit a university entrance exam, police and witnesses said on Thursday.
In Iseyin, a sleepy town in southwestern Nigeria, shaded spaces under trees, makeshift sheds and narrow alleys double as production hubs for aso-oke, a handwoven fabric indigenous to the Yoruba ethnic group...
Gunmen have killed at least 60 people across several remote villages in northwest Nigeria this week, local clergy and humanitarian groups said Wednesday, as the country battles a surge in insecurity in its mostly Muslim north...
At least 38 people were killed this week in suspected extremist attacks on loggers and a village in northeast Nigeria, anti-jihadist militia and residents told AFP on Friday...
Armed gangs killed seven people and kidnapped dozens others in raids on six remote villages in northern Nigeria’s Zamfara state, residents told AFP, the latest attack in the unrest-weary West African country...
Gunmen killed at least a dozen people in Jos, the capital of Nigeria’s restive Plateau state, sparking retaliation from a mob that killed 10 more, locals said on Monday...
Armed attackers killed 16 civilians in western Niger this week when they ambushed a convoy of trucks near the Malian border, local sources told AFP on Sunday...
Coordinated blasts by suspected suicide bombers tore through a busy market and other areas in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 100 others, in one of the worst recent attacks on the capital of Borno state...
Nigerian soldiers have killed at least 20 jihadists in the country’s northeastern Yobe state, the military said, following a raft of ‘coordinated attacks’ on military bases in the region earlier this week...
Four Nigeria women whose daughters were abducted by Boko Haram in the infamous 2014 Chibok kidnapping set foot for the first time in two factories where they hope a new food line will help finance their families’ education.
At least 30 people were killed in three separate jihadist attacks in northern Nigeria, where escalating violence has choked the region in recent months...
The United States will deploy 200 troops to Nigeria to train its armed forces in their fight against jihadist groups, Nigerian and US officials said Tuesday, as Washington increases military cooperation with the West African country...
A drone strike apparently carried out by Niger’s military killed 17 civilians, among them children, in western Niger last month, Human Rights Watch said Monday...
At least 51 people have been kidnapped and three killed in attacks over the past three days in four different villages in Nigeria’s northern Kaduna State, security forces said Saturday...