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...
South African officials will carry out inspections at workplaces to see whether firms are employing undocumented foreigners, Minister of Home Affairs Malusi Gigaba has said. He added that more than...
Two German archaeologists were kidnapped in central Nigeria on Wednesday, a police official said, near the road that will run between the capital Abuja and its temporary airport from next month....
Nigerian airport employees may walk out over pay issues at the capital's temporary airport while the main airport's runway is being repaired, their trade union said on Saturday. The Abuja airport...
Maiduguri (Nigeria) (AFP) - The head of the World Food Programme said she was hopeful of continued US funding for the organisation, despite reports that Washington was mulling heavy cuts in financial...
Maiduguri (Nigeria) (AFP) - The head of the World Food Programme said she was hopeful of continued US funding for the organisation, despite reports that Washington was mulling heavy cuts in financial...
Nigeria’s government has denied reports that “plastic rice” was being sold in the country, days after the customs service said 2.5 tonnes of the contraband had been confiscated. Health Minister...
Nigeria's government has failed to pay the country's ex-leaders their monthly salaries and allowances since January because of a cash crisis, government secretary Babachir Lawal has said. He made the...
A militant group in Nigeria says it has bombed three pipelines in the south of the country in the latest attack on the country's crucial oil industry. The claim by the Niger Delta Avengers has not...
Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamic extremists have overrun a remote military camp in the northeast, leaving 13 soldiers wounded and an unknown number missing, the army said Wednesday. Monday's attack comes...
Nigeria's government is negotiating the release of a further 83 of the missing Chibok schoolgirls, but more than 100 others appear unwilling to leave their captors, a community leader has told the AP...
LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigeria is suing several leading oil companies for $12.7 billion of crude oil that allegedly was exported illegally to the United States between 2011 and 2014, officials said...
Abuja (AFP) - Nigeria's economy nosedived into a recession, official data showed Wednesday, with oil production hammered by militant attacks on pipelines and foreign investment at a "record" low....
Nigerian military have successfully rescued 338 captives mostly women and children, from Boko Haram camps in a forest in the north-east of the country, the military has said.
In a statement by the...
FIFA has clearly stated that it is against third-party interference in national football federations.
After the Nigerian government hit the Nigeria Football Federation with a court order that...
