Tag: northern Nigeria

At least 24 people are reported to have been killed in suicide bomb blasts in the north-east Nigerian town of ...

There is growing anger among the parents of a group of missing Nigerian schoolgirls following an attack by Boko Haram ...

Schoolgirls and teachers in north-eastern Nigeria have escaped an attack on a boarding school by Boko Haram jihadists, witnesses say. ...

Boko Haram have publicly executed eight villagers in northeast Nigeria who opposed the enforcement of its hardline form of Islam, ...

Powerful Igbo leaders in Nigeria have rejected calls for the breakaway state of Biafra to be created for their ethnic ...

The Nigerian megacity of Lagos, with its 20 million inhabitants, is the biggest in sub-Saharan Africa and is celebrating its ...

Lawmakers in Kano state, northern Nigeria, have indefinitely suspended a probe into allegations of graft against one of the country's ...

A man purporting to be a Boko Haram fighter said the group plans to bomb Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, in a ...

More than 1,000 people have died in an outbreak of meningitis in Nigeria, the Centre for Disease Control said Thursday, ...

Lawmakers in northern Nigeria have opened an investigation into corruption claims against one of the country's leading traditional rulers, whose ...

The famine ravaging South Sudan and its neighbours could claim six million lives, a charity warned Friday, as the international ...

Sunday morning is usually the preserve of Christian pastors in the Nigerian megacity of Lagos but a new form of ...

Thoughts of a modern muslim King on achieving success in life The Emir of Kano State in Nigeria, Mallam Mahammadu ...

Prosecutors in the northern Nigeria state of Kaduna have charged a group of 53 people with conspiring to celebrate a ...

A group of 53 people has been charged in northern Nigeria’s Kaduna state with “conspiring” to celebrate a gay wedding ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres marks his first 100 days in office on Monday, facing a long list of worsening conflicts ...

Sadiq Zazzabi is a talented R&B singer in northern Nigeria, popular among Hausa speakers across the country and beyond for ...

More than 2,600 Nigerians who fled into northern Cameroon to escape Boko Haram jihadists have been forced to go home ...

A leading African writer has transfixed the internet with her comments on gender - but fellow Nigerians say they feel ...

Cameroon said its troops had rescued 5,000 civilian "hostages" held by Boko Haram Islamists in a cross-border operation that left ...