Nigeria

ABUJA (Reuters) - Intense fire from bandits caused a Nigerian attack jet to crash in northwestern Zamfara State, but the...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's broadcasting regulator has asked TV stations to curb their reporting of insecurity in the country by...

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria has put six states on red alert after seeing a "worrisome" rise in COVID-19 infections, a...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) -Gunmen abducted at least 60 people and killed one person in northwestern Nigeria after riding motorbikes into...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead a Nigerian army general as he was travelling by car on a major road...

By Libby George and Estelle Shirbon LAGOS/LONDON (Reuters) - Shehu Ismaila Gbadebo has worked as a barber for two decades....

By Angela Ukomadu LAGOS (Reuters) - At the Heavenly Citizen's Church in Lagos, the pastor and congregation have adopted a...

By Libby George LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's Lagos state faces a "potential third wave" of coronovirus infections, its governor said...

By Garba Muhammad KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Six students and two officials who were kidnapped last month from a school...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Militants killed at least 45 people in an attack on the town of Faru in northwest...

BAUCHI/MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) -Suspected Islamist militants killed 18 people when they attacked a village in northeast Nigeria on Wednesday, two...

KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Kidnappers who abducted more than 100 students from a boarding school in Nigeria's Kaduna state warned...

By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's parliament passed a 983 billion naira ($2.4 billion) supplementary budget on Wednesday to...

By Libby George and Abraham Achirga KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Yusuf Lado had not yet learned to read or write...

(Reuters) - Around 150 students are missing after armed men attacked a school in northwest Nigeria's Kaduna state, a parent...

By Garba Muhammed KADUNA (Reuters) - Gunmen kidnapped up to eight people, including the one-year-old child of a nurse, from...

By Tife Owolabi YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) - A Nigerian separatist leader arrested after years on the run was badly mistreated...

By Libby George and Camillus Eboh LAGOS/ABUJA (Reuters) - Both chambers of Nigeria's parliament have passed a bill that overhauls...

(Corrects paragraph 3 to remove reference to bill being cleared for presidential approval) ABUJA (Reuters) - The Nigerian Senate passed...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's lower house of parliament has passed a long-awaited oil industry bill, which will overhaul nearly every...