Nigeria

Gunmen kidnap staff and baby from Nigerian hospital

KADUNA: Gunmen kidnapped up to eight people, including the one-year-old child of a nurse, from… Read More

Nigeria buries army chief after air crash

It was the third military air disaster this year and the army posted videos on… Read More

Nigerian army chief dies in air force plane crash -sources

Nigeria's army chief Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru died in a plane crash on Friday on… Read More

Boko Haram chief ‘badly wounded’: What we know

Shekau was seriously wounded after trying to kill himself to evade the IS militants who… Read More

Three JF-17 Thunder jets handed over to Nigeria

The JF-17 is a state-of-the-art fighter aircraft, featured with outstanding flight performance and strong operational… Read More

British university to return looted Benin Bronze to Nigeria

The University of Aberdeen said it would return a Benin Bronze to Nigeria within weeks,… Read More

‘They hit us with guns’: All abducted Nigerian schoolgirls freed

Zamfara government spokesman Sulaiman Tanau Anka said some of the missing girls had run into… Read More

Kidnappers abduct hundreds of schoolgirls in Nigeria

Unknown gunmen came shooting sporadically and took the girls away in a midnight raid on… Read More

Gunmen kill student, kidnap 42 in attack on Nigerian school

“Twenty-seven students, three staff and 12 members of their families were kidnapped. Unfortunately, one student… Read More

Yellow fever claims 172 lives in Nigeria: WHO

The outbreak poses an extra challenge to the country's health system as Africa's most populous… Read More

One more country claims to discover COVID-19 vaccine

"The vaccine is real. We have validated it several times. It is targeted at Africans,… Read More

Nigerians shake off coronavirus lockdown boredom with group exercise

The disease has so far killed 10 and infected 300 in Nigeria. Read More

Lagos gas blast kills 15, destroys several buildings in Nigeria

An explosion at a gas processing plant on Sunday killed at least 15 people and… Read More

Nigeria confirms coronavirus case, first in sub-Saharan Africa

The case is an Italian citizen who works in Nigeria and returned from Milan earlier… Read More

Pakistan Navy organizes medical camps in Nigeria as good gesture

Pakistan Navy ships organized medical camps in Lagos, the most populous city in Nigeria, as… Read More

Nigerian painting fetches £1.1 million after Google search

'The family were unaware of the significance of the painting or the importance of the… Read More

Gunmen kidnap government school principal

Around 20 assailants stormed the Government Technical Secondary School in Kajuru overnight and hauled away… Read More

Was this man buried in a $88,000 BMW?

A picture has been shared tens of thousands of times on Facebook and Twitter, as… Read More

Nigeria’s film industry draws global entertainment brands

U.S. streaming giant Netflix released “Lionheart”, its first original film produced in Nigeria, in January.… Read More

Nigeria’s three-year milestone takes Africa towards polio eradication

Polio is a viral infection that attacks the nervous system and can cause irreversible paralysis… Read More