Tag: Nigeria’s government

Nigeria is reviving its search for oil in the country's conflict-riven northeast, aided by China and emboldened by gains made ...

Boko Haram jihadists believed to be from the IS-supported faction loyal to Abu Mus'ab Al-Barnawi have attacked three military bases ...

Authorities in north-eastern Nigeria have begun digging a 27km (17 mile) trench around the University of Maiduguri to prevent attacks ...

Chief Executive of Ghana’s Minerals Commission, Dr. Tony Aubynn, has advised African banks and financial institutions to get involved in ...

Farmers and fishermen displaced by Boko Haram violence in northeast Nigeria want to return home, saying it will help ease ...

Shops, schools and businesses were shut in southeast Nigeria on Tuesday, 50 years to the day since the declaration of ...

Shops, schools and businesses were shut in southeast Nigeria on Tuesday, 50 years to the day since an independent republic ...

Lack of funding is forcing aid agencies to cut feeding programmes for starving people in northeast Nigeria, the UN said ...

Nigeria's government on Thursday retracted its announcement that another Chibok girl was free, saying she was not one of the ...

After a night on the streets, the pack of young boys move into Maiduguri's abandoned amusement park in the early ...

Boko Haram jihadists have killed six farmers who were working on their land near the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, ...

Suffering from rampant inflation, stalled investment and mass layoffs, Nigeria is still gripped by one of the worst economic crises ...

A schoolgirl who was among more than 200 kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 refused to be part of a ...

Military pressure, in-fighting within Boko Haram and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's health combined to secure the release of 82 kidnapped ...

Nigeria aims to legalize illicit oil refineries in the turbulent Niger Delta region, the vice president's office said Thursday, hoping ...

While Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari was receiving treatment in London for an undisclosed illness, his energetic deputy Yemi Osinbajo was ...

The long awaited Confederation of African Football -CAF elections, is finally here. As a matter of fact, elections are underway ...

Nigeria’s government has ordered the head of the country’s football association to back current CAF president Issa Hayatou of Cameroon ...

Nigeria's government has ordered the head of the country's football association to back current CAF president Issa Hayatou of Cameroon ...

Nigeria's government this week launched a master plan to lift it out of recession, hoping to hit 7.0 percent growth ...