Nigeria

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...

More than 2.5 million people in Nigeria are in need of humanitarian assistance – 60 per cent of which are children – and are at increased risk of waterborne diseases, drowning and malnutrition due to the...

According to President Muhammadu Buhari, almost everyone on board a boat perished when it crashed in a flood-inundated river in the Anambra state of Nigeria. On Friday, the overloaded boat capsized while carrying 85 passengers as...

In the first official tally of deaths, an emergency official in northeast Nigeria claimed nine people were killed and 23 others were injured in an airstrike this week that purportedly impacted civilians. The Nigerian air force...

Nigeria will soon lift its ban on Twitter after resolving some of its differences with the social media platform, Information Minister Lai Mohammed said on Wednesday, signalling the end of a policy widely condemned as an...