Two girls said to be aged seven or eight have been used to bomb a market in north-east Nigeria, killing at least one other person and wounding 18. Police in the town of Maiduguri, Borno state, say...
Two girls said to be aged seven or eight have been used to bomb a market in north-east Nigeria, killing at least one other person and wounding 18. Police in the town of Maiduguri, Borno state, say...
A church roof has collapsed in Uyo, south-east Nigeria, killing at least 60 people attending a bishop’s ordination. Some reports put the number much higher, with many people believed to be still...
A church roof has collapsed in Uyo, south-east Nigeria, killing at least 60 people attending a bishop’s ordination. Some reports put the number much higher, with many people believed to be still...
A church roof has collapsed in Uyo, south-east Nigeria, killing at least 60 people attending a bishop's ordination. Some reports put the number much higher, with many people are believed to be still...
Nigerian novelist: How I was banned from speaking Igbo In our series of letters from African journalists, Nigerian novelist and writer Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani recalls how she was banned from speaking...
The United Nations warned Friday that the threat from Boko Haram jihadists was complicating efforts to help tens of thousands of Nigerian refugees living in dire conditions in northern Cameroon. The...
Gunmen have killed 36 gold miners in north-east Nigeria, police say. The attackers overran a mining camp in the Maru district of Zamfara state, in the latest in a series of similar raids in the...
The oil industry has caused widespread environmental damage in the Niger Delta Militants say they have blown an oil pipeline in south-east Nigeria. The Niger Delta Avengers said it attacked a...
The BBC Hausa Service has announced the winner of its first short-story competition aimed at women writers. Aisha Muhammad Sabitu's story Sansanin' Yan Gudun Hijira (meaning "Refugee Camp" in Hausa)...
Twenty-one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram have been freed, a senior Nigerian government official has told the BBC. The official wanted to remain anonymous and the government has...
