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As Nigeria marks 10 years since the mass Chibok abductions in the Northeast, 90 girls remain in captivity, and the country is recovering from another abduction of schoolchildren in Kaduna state in March of this year....

Over 130 Nigerian schoolchildren freed following a mass kidnapping have reunited with their families and were expected to return home on Thursday, a state governor’s spokesperson told AFP. Gunmen abducted the children from their school in...

Four Nigerien soldiers died during a dawn raid by dozens of armed assailants near the border with Nigeria, state television announced Friday. “Armed men came in large numbers riding about 100 motorbikes and attacked the gendarme,”...

is set to conclude nearly a century of operations in Nigerian onshore oil and gas after agreeing to sell its subsidiary there to a consortium of five mostly local companies for up to $2.4 billion. The...

The World Bank has recognized the advances of Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s tough economic reforms, but urged more progress on medium-term fiscal and monetary measures, it said in a report. Since taking over the presidency...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that the US would prosecute those responsible for a deadly attack on a US convoy in Nigeria, which he claimed was responding to a flood. Although no group...

On Sunday, a day after an extremely close election between the three front-runners for the presidency of Africa’s most populous country, Nigeria, ballots were being counted. There were nearly 90 million eligible voters in Saturday’s election,...

Nearly 25 million Nigerians are at risk of facing hunger between June and August 2023 (lean season) if urgent action is not taken, according to the October 2022 Cadre Harmonisé, a Government led and UN-supported food...

Nigeria’s central bank has announced substantial increases in limits on weekly cash withdrawals following pressure from the public. The decision late Wednesday came two weeks after the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) imposed restrictions on weekly...

Following popular pressure, Nigeria’s central bank has approved significant hikes in the weekly cash withdrawal caps. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) restricted weekly cash withdrawals two weeks prior to the decision, in an effort to...