Nigeria

N'DJAMENA (Reuters) -At least 26 Chadian soldiers were killed in the early hours of Thursday by suspected Boko Haram assailants...

LAGOS (Reuters) - Security forces killed at least 115 people in southeast Nigeria this year and arbitrarily arrested or tortured...

KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Kidnappers are demanding a ransom of one million naira each to release around 80 children snatched...

By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) -Resident doctors in Nigerian public hospitals began an indefinite strike on Monday over grievances that...

DUBAI (Reuters) -The United Arab Emirates will on Thursday lift a ban on transit flights including from India and Pakistan,...

(Corrects description of Boko Haram, paragraph 4) By Doyinsola Oladipo and Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. lawmakers have put on...

ABUJA (Reuters) -A Nigerian police chief has denied involvement in what a U.S. indictment describes as an elaborate scheme to...

LONDON (Reuters) - The family of Nnamdi Kanu, a secessionist leader and British citizen who is detained in Nigeria, has...

(Corrects spelling of reporter's name) DOUALA (Reuters) -Unidentified attackers killed five Cameroonian soldiers and one civilian during a raid on...

YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) - A Nigerian local police chief and six bandits were shot dead during a clash in southeastern...

By Garba Muhammed KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - The northern Nigerian state of Kaduna has suspended all schooling due to insecurity,...

(Corrects perpetrators of the school abductions in second paragraph to remove reference to Islamist militants) KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) -Kidnappers who...

By Camillus Eboh and Abraham Achirga ABUJA (Reuters) - A Nigerian judge adjourned the treason trial of separatist leader Nnamdi...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Armed bandits in Nigeria have seized a negotiator who had been sent to pay ransom money to...

DOUALA (Reuters) - At least six Cameroonian soldiers were killed and four wounded during an attack by Islamist insurgents on...

LAGOS (Reuters) - A court in Lagos sentenced 10 men to 12 years in prison on Friday for kidnapping the...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria received its first six A-29 Super Tucano planes, the air force said on Thursday, four years...

LAGOS (Reuters) - Police and government authorities have secured the release of 100 people, including women, children and nursing mothers,...

ABUJA (Reuters) - A Nigerian activist accused by the authorities of plotting a violent insurrection has been detained in neighbouring...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has asked Nigeria to explain where and how Nnamdi Kanu, a separatist leader who holds British...