Nigeria

By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) - The leader of a banned Nigerian separatist movement pleaded not guilty to eight new...

By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) - A lawyer for outlawed Nigerian separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu, whose trial on terrorism charges...

By Garba Muhammad KEBBI, Nigeria (Reuters) -Dozens of gunmen on motorbikes ransacked a village and killed more than 50 people...

By Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigeria will lift a ban on Twitter from midnight after the social media platform agreed...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) -An estimated 200 people or more have been killed in villages in the northwestern Nigerian state of...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Armed bandits have killed at least 30 people in Nigeria's Zamfara State, raiding several villages in...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -A suspected Nigerian pirate captured by the Danish navy in the Gulf of Guinea in November and brought...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria is working to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, President Muhammadu Buhari said in a televised interview on...

By Tife Owolabi YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Armed men kidnapped three Chinese nationals and killed two local staff working on...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's police could not account for thousands of firearms, including 88,078 AK-47 rifles, an audit report published...

By Lanre Ola MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Six troops from Nigeria and Niger were killed by Islamic State West Africa...

ABUJA (Reuters) - The Nigerian president's top media aide Garba Shehu said on Saturday that he has tested positive for...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least five people were killed and more than a dozen injured on Thursday after several...

BAMAKO (Reuters) - West African regional bloc ECOWAS hopes Mali's transitional authorities will finalise a date for elections before the...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia on Thursday announced new COVID-19 restrictions, including banning mass gatherings and requiring booster doses for...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Pirates took six hostages during an attack on a Greek-operated container ship in international waters in the...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria is taking diplomatic steps to try to reverse travel bans placed on it by some countries...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria will destroy around one million expired COVID-19 vaccines, Faisal Shuaib, head of the National Primary Health...

By Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria plans to ban flights from Argentina, Britain, Canada and Saudi Arabia from this...

By Libby George MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Hauwa Ahmadu Kukuda rakes straw from the top of the two-room shack she...