Nigeria

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...

Nigeria has announced the closure of popular social media site Twitter indefinitely. Nigerian authorities announced the decision on Friday (June 4th) after deleting a tweet from President Mohamed Buhari. The African country claims that this social...

More than 150 people were feared drowned in northwest Nigeria on Wednesday after an overloaded boat ferrying passengers to a market sank in the Niger River, local officials said. The boat was travelling between central Niger...

Nigeria’s top-ranking army commander Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru and other officers were killed on Friday when their plane crashed in bad weather in the country’s north, officials said. Chief of Army Staff Attahiru was only appointed...

Jihadists have killed 35 people, including five troops and 15 militiamen, in two attacks in Nigeria’s troubled northern Borno state, sources told AFP Tuesday. Islamic State-aligned militants have intensified attacks on army camps in recent weeks...

A group of nearly 300 girls who were kidnapped from a school in north-western Nigeria last week have been released, a local official says. The girls were abducted by unidentified gunmen from their boarding school in...

All 279 girls kidnapped from their boarding school in northern Nigeria have been released and are on government premises, the local governor told AFP Tuesday. Nigeria has been rocked by four mass abductions of students in...

Ten soldiers have been killed and one abducted in clashes with IS-linked jihadists in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno. This news has been known from multiple security sources. The clashes erupted on Monday when troops raided...