Nigeria

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal from Nov. 15-20, the...

COTONOU (Reuters) - Twenty-six works of art seized by French colonial soldiers in 1892 returned to Benin on Wednesday, a...

By George Obulutsa NAIROBI (Reuters) - Death rates from COVID-19 infections are much higher in patients with diabetes in Africa,...

By Tife Owolabi YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) -Nigeria's Aiteo Eastern E&P has reported an "extremely high order" oil spill from a...

By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) - A Nigerian judge on Wednesday adjourned the trial of separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu until...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian security agents have rescued six people abducted by armed men from a university in Abuja this...

By Fikayo Owoeye LAGOS (Reuters) - Hopes are fading of finding survivors four days after a high-rise apartment block building...

By Fikayo Owoeye LAGOS (Reuters) - Rescuers in Nigeria on Wednesday were racing to find survivors on the third day...

By Nneka Chile and Seun Sanni LAGOS (Reuters) -Rescuers combed through the rubble of a high-rise building in Nigeria's commercial...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Gunmen abducted four members of staff and their children from the University of Abuja on Tuesday, the...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - A convoy carrying Borno state governor Babagana Zulum came under fire from militants this week, forcing...

By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - A Scottish university will on Thursday hand over to a Nigerian delegation a Benin...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's army said on Thursday it had killed the new leader of insurgent group Islamic State West...

By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) -A Cambridge University college and a Paris museum on Wednesday handed back cultural artefacts looted...

By Tife Owolabi YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least 25 people, including some minors, were killed in an explosion and...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Gunmen attacked a jail in Nigeria's Oyo State late on Friday and freed over 800 inmates by...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria's Borno state, the epicentre of an ongoing Islamist insurgency, will shut all camps that are...

KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) -An explosion damaged coaches on a Nigerian passenger train and part of the railway track beneath, prompting...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian authorities intercepted nearly half a million amphetamine pills hidden in machinery coming into a Lagos port,...

By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu pleaded not guilty to charges including terrorism in an...