Nigeria

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least 50 people were killed and dozens abducted by gunmen in Nigeria's Plateau state, residents...

By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu should stand trial and answer to charges that include...

By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) - A federal judge ruled on Thursday that all trials of terrorism cases in Nigeria...

By Hamza Ibrahim KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - A Nigerian atheist and outspoken critic of religion was sentenced to 24 years...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen killed 15 Nigerian soldiers and wounded more than a dozen others during an attack on...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria has repeated its demand for telecom companies to bar calls from unregistered phone lines, part of...

By Nellie Peyton DAKAR (Reuters) - West Africa is facing its worst food crisis on record driven by conflict, drought,...

LAGOS (Reuters) - The United States will build a $537 million consulate in the Nigerian megacity Lagos, the country's commercial...

KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected bandits have contacted some Nigerian families to say they are holding relatives who went missing...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least seven bodies were recovered and about a dozen people were missing after a boat...

By Garba Muhammad KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) -Aminu Sani was travelling by rail to see his newborn baby in the northern...

KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected bandits attacked a passenger train headed to the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna from Abuja,...

KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen killed one person during an airport attack in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna on...

By Simon Lewis and Chris Gallagher WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on alleged arms dealers and...

By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Nkateko Muyimane and six fellow African students hid in a subway while Russian shells...

By Abraham Achirga ABUJA (Reuters) - A Nigerian school is targeting students from poor families to give them a chance...

KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least 19 soldiers were killed in Nigeria's Kebbi state as gunmen attacked the deputy governor's...

COTONOU (Reuters) - Nigerian activist Sunday Adeyemo, imprisoned in Benin since last year for allegedly plotting an insurrection in Nigeria,...

By Garba Muhammad KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen ambushed and killed at least 62 members of a volunteer vigilante group...

By Abraham Achirga ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian medical student Oduola Adebowale said he and some friends were trying to get...