Nigeria

BAUCHI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian officials cut communication lines in multiple parts of Katsina state as a crackdown on banditry...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian troops have seized 14 tonnes of fertiliser that the insurgent Islamist group Boko Haram had...

ABUJA (Reuters) - The start of the school term has been pushed back to an unusually late date in Nigeria's...

By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) - Lawyers for a Nigerian security agency that said its case files were stolen by...

YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) -The detained leader of a separatist group in Nigeria has filed a lawsuit alleging that he was...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen kidnapped 20 people in remote Sokoto State in northwest Nigeria, police said on Wednesday, in...

KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen invaded a village in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna and kidnapped 18 residents including...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Tuesday it was closely following the political situation in Guinea after a military...

YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) - The governor of Rivers State in Nigeria's oil-producing Delta region said he may be forced to...

By Saliou Samb CONAKRY (Reuters) - The leaders of a military coup in Guinea promised on Monday to set up...

ABUJA (Reuters) - The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will hold an extraordinary summit on Guinea on Thursday,...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Mobile telephone networks were shut down in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara, residents said on...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Five girls who were among 73 children kidnapped from a school in northwestern Nigeria have been...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Close to 6,000 fighters from the Boko Haram Islamist insurgent group in northeast Nigeria have surrendered in...

(Reuters) -Armed men kidnapped 73 children from a school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara in the latest mass...

BANI WALID, Libya (Reuters) - Halima William crossed the desert from Nigeria to Libya hoping to reach Europe for a...

By Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari sacked the ministers for power and agriculture on Wednesday in a...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Ninety children abducted from a school in Nigeria were reunited on Friday with their parents after...

MINNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen have released students abducted three months ago from an Islamic school in north-central Nigerian state...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria and Russia have signed a military cooperation deal providing a legal framework for the supply of...