Chocolate City boss, Audu Maikori, on Tuesday collapsed at the 2017 Women in Management, Business and Public Service (WIMBIZ) holding at Muson Center. Although it was not clear what the immediate...
A Nigerian former state governor was on Monday found guilty and sentenced to five years in jail for corruption, marking one of the first high-profile convictions in President Muhammadu Buhari's...
Thousands of Nigerian women forced from their homes by Boko Haram jihadists held a protest on Sunday to demand better conditions as UN Security Council envoys visited their camp, an AFP journalist...
UN envoys on a mission to the Lake Chad region said Saturday that a conference would soon be held in Paris aimed at easing the humanitarian crisis gripping Chad. The country is one of several...
Nigerian Army has revealed that 28 of its men were killed The Nigerian Army has revealed that 28 of its men were killed while three others were abducted during different clashes with members of the...
Multiple explosions rocked the outskirts of Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri early Friday, killing three suicide bombers, the emergency service and police said. The blasts on Damboa road in...
South African telecoms giant MTN said Thursday that it made a $200 million loss in 2016 -- the company's first -- after suffering a huge fine in Nigeria and currency challenges in key markets. "MTN...
UN Security Council envoys on Thursday travel to Africa's Lake Chad region, where famine, the Boko Haram insurgency, climate change and poor governance have collided to create one of the world's...
Some 7,000 people have fled from villages around the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok because of Boko Haram attacks, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Wednesday. The IOM...
France is to send a contingent of counterterror forces to help the army in Niger after militants ambushed a military patrol killing 16, the defence ministry said. The decision, announced late...
The leader of Boko Haram’s main faction, Abubakar Shekau, has admitted killing the group’s purported spokesperson over an apparent plot to oust him. Shekau said he killed “Tasiu” – also...
At least seven soldiers were killed in a Boko Haram attack on military positions in northeast Nigeria, a civilian vigilante and a security source said on Friday. The attack happened in the town of...
Donor countries meeting in Oslo on Friday pledged $672 million (634 million euros) in emergency aid for people threatened by famine in the Lake Chad region, which has been hard hit by Boko Haram,...
The leader of Boko Haram's main faction, Abubakar Shekau, has admitted killing the group's purported spokesman over an apparent plot to oust him, he said in an audio recording obtained by AFP. In the...
Fifteen soldiers were killed and 19 wounded in a attack by "terrorist elements" in western Niger, authorities said Thursday. "A Niger army patrol was attacked by terrorist elements at 1500 GMT north...
UN aid agencies and donor countries gathered in Oslo Thursday for a two-day meeting to raise emergency aid for millions of people threatened by famine in northeastern Nigeria, a Boko Haram...
An international conference in Oslo on Friday aims to raise $1.5 billion (1.4 billion euros) to help people affected by Boko Haram's Islamist insurgency in the Lake Chad region. Here are five things...
Most of the refugees are at the Minawao camp in north-eastern Cameroon Cameroon has expelled 517 Nigerians, including 313 asylum seekers, who fled the insurgency by militant Islamist group Boko...
Polygamy is widely accepted all over Nigeria but one of the country's most prominent Muslim leaders is trying to ban the practice - in some cases. Why are multiple spouses under scrutiny? Men who...
Not a single car remains in the town of Dikwa in northeast Nigeria and there's no way to communicate to the outside world, as all the telephone lines have been blown up. But it is here that...
