Nigeria

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - The Nigerian Air Force fired upon and killed dozens of civilians at a village in the...

ABUJA (Reuters) - The Nigerian navy on Tuesday disowned allegations made in parliament by one of its senior officers that...

By Bosan Yakusak LAGOS (Reuters) - Armed men killed at least 34 people in two villages in the northern Nigerian...

ABUJA (Reuters) -Gunmen killed at least 22 security personnel at a remote army base in a northwestern Nigerian state plagued...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Bandits killed 22 Nigerian security personnel in an attack on a remote army base in northwestern Sokoto...

BAUCHI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Ten more students who were kidnapped by gunmen from a school in Nigeria two months ago...

N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chad's transitional government said on Friday that it plans to drastically increase the size of its army...

ABUJA (Reuters) - A Nigerian court on Thursday ordered the immediate release of a woman held in detention since February...

By Tife Owolabi and Estelle Shirbon BENIN CITY, Nigeria (Reuters) - A new guild of artists from Nigeria's Benin City...

LONDON (Reuters) - Police in London appealed on Tuesday to anyone with information about the murder of a Nigerian boy...

YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian authorities imposed a communications blackout on Monday in several parts of Sokoto state as a...

ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari said on Sunday he had appointed a board for state-oil firm NNPC and directed...

KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Bandits have released 10 more students kidnapped two months ago from a Baptist school in northwest...

By Ardo Hazzad BAUCHI, Nigeria (Reuters) -The Nigerian air force said on Thursday it may have killed and injured civilians...

BAUCHI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nine people were killed and 23 injured in a village in Nigeria's northeastern Yobe State that...

ABUJA (Reuters) - At least one million Nigerian children could miss school this year as the new term begins amid...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria said on Wednesday it expects to end its ban on Twitter in a "few more days",...

ABUJA (Reuters) -A total of 114 of the 266 inmates who escaped from a Nigerian prison on Sunday have been...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Seventy-five children who were kidnapped from their school in Nigeria's northwestern Zamfara State have been released...

ABUJA (Reuters) -Heavily armed gunmen raided a jail in south-central Nigeria late on Sunday, blowing up the perimeter fence and...