Nigeria

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Hundreds of Islamist Boko Haram militants attacked a military post in southern Niger overnight, killing 16 soldiers...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Attackers shot dead at least 36 people and destroyed buildings in a night raid on a village...

By Abraham Achirga and Libby George TEGINA, Nigeria (Reuters) - After armed men snatched seven of Abubakar Adam's 11 children...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Gunmen killed two Nigerian military personnel and abducted another in an attack on an army training college...

MINNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Six of the 136 students kidnapped from an Islamic school in the north-central Nigerian state of...

BAUCHI/KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Bandits have released 15 more students kidnapped last month from a Baptist school in northwest Nigeria,...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Armed gunmen kidnapped at least 75 people from a village in northwest Nigeria, residents said on...

By Libby George LAGOS (Reuters) - Helicopters hover above a patrol vessel in Nigeria's frenetic Apapa port as attack boats...

YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) -Gunmen killed a police officer and six employees of a Nigerian oil and gas services contractor during...

KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen abducted 15 students and four staff members from an agricultural college in the northwestern Nigerian...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - The killing of 23 people returning from a Muslim festival in Nigeria was a premeditated ambush...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - A second young woman abducted seven years ago from the town of Chibok by Boko Haram...

MAIDUGURI (Reuters) - Attackers killed 22 commuters on a road near the capital of Nigeria's Plateau state, a morgue attendant...

JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia's foreign ministry expressed its regret on Thursday after a senior Nigerian diplomat was forcibly restrained by immigration...

By Angela Ukomadu and Seun Sanni KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - In Nigeria's northern Kano state, Janet Peter stirs a thick...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - One abducted girl from the Nigerian town of Chibok has been freed and reunited with her...

By Ijeoma Ezekwere ONITSHA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Southeastern Nigerian city centres were deserted on Monday as many people stayed at...

LAGOS (Reuters) - A politician was abducted from his home in northern Nigeria on Monday and a Swiss national was...

KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least 2.3 million children and youth are going hungry in northeast Nigeria where an Islamist...

By Angus Berwick (Reuters) - In late 2020, when Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni faced a fresh challenge to his 35-year...