Nigeria

By Libby George and Nneka Chile LAGOS (Reuters) - One year ago, Adebanjo Akinwunmi gleefully waved a Nigerian flag at...

MAIDUGURI (Reuters) - Nigerian troops killed 24 suspected Islamist insurgents in two attacks in the northeast and recovered some weapons,...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) -Gunmen killed at least 43 people in an attack in northern Nigeria's Sokoto state, the governor's office...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria has received 501,600 doses of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine from the French government through the COVAX vaccine-sharing...

By Felix Onuah and Estelle Shirbon ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigeria's top general said on Thursday that Abu Musab al-Barnawi, leader of...

ABUJA (Reuters) - A telecoms blackout will be maintained in large swathes of northwest Nigeria because it is helping the...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria will require civil servants to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 or a negative test for...

YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) - A group of 15 Nigerian women and children trekked through the bush for six days to...

BAUCHI, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least 20 people were killed in Nigeria's Sokoto state when gunmen attacked a market and...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Five more students who were kidnapped by gunmen from a school in Nigeria three months ago have...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian security agents on Thursday rescued 187 people who had been abducted by armed gangs in...

By Felix Onuah and Chijioke Ohuocha ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's president unveiled a record 16.39 trillion naira ($39.8 billion) budget...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Armed men killed at least 18 people and set ablaze cars and shops in Nigeria's Zamfara...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has condemned the killing by unknown gunmen of a nurse...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Boko Haram insurgents have taken over multiple communities in Nigeria's north-central Niger state, offering villagers money...

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria got approval on Friday for $400 million in World Bank financing to procure and deploy COVID-19...

By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) -An artist from Benin City in Nigeria said the British Museum had accepted his gift...

ABUJA (Reuters) - The Nigerian military said on Thursday a deadly air strike hit an Islamic State camp and that...

KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Authorities in Nigeria's Kaduna State shut down telecoms networks and banned the use of motorcycles on...

ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigerian police denied killing members of a banned Shi'ite Muslim group who had gathered in the capital Abuja...