In the city of Ilorin, the capital of Kwara state in Western Nigeria stands the Sobi rocks at nearly 1,300 feet (396 meters) above sea level, named after the Sobi community.

Nigeria’s Boko Haram isn’t just about Western education May 16, 2014 More than 11 years ago Boko Haram released a video showing some of the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls.

Police in the western Nigerian state of Niger have raided an Islamic community and detained hundreds of men, weeks after an uprising by a radical sect killed almost 800 in the remote northeast.

But the party still enjoys the loyal backing of Western Nigeria’s predominant, advanced Yoruba tribe. The clannish Yorubas will almost certainly reorganize to challenge the North and East once more.

Raising the alarm on Nigeria’s use of aid funds The U.K. aid commitment to Nigeria has now ballooned to £860 million directed toward the fight against Boko Haram, but what has Buhari achieved?

Lagos (EFE).- Local authorities confirmed on Sunday that the number of people killed in western Nigeria due to flooding caused by heavy rains on Thursday has risen to at least 200.

Agbaje-Williams made history on October 31, 1959, as the first person to appear on Western Nigerian Television, Africa’s first television station, now known as the Nigerian Television Authority; ...

By Ayorinde Oluokun/AbujaChief Mrs Anike Agbaje-Williams who made history as the first face to appear on television in Nigeria with then then Western Nigeria Television Station, WNTS is dead ...

LONDON and MAIDUGURI -- Armed bandits in Nigeria have kidnapped over 100 school children in Kuriga, north-western Nigeria, oaccording to officials. The bandits are reported to have stormed into ...

A funeral mass was held on Friday for the victims of the gun attack in early June at a church in Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria, a relative of two of the victims told CNN.. Among those paying respects ...

More than 30,000 Nigerian refugees have arrived in Niger's Maradi region during the past two months alone, tripling the number who have fled there since last year. They are fleeing growing insecurity ...