Pope LEO XIV has joined with the State Department to condemn the killing of yet more Christians by Islamist militants in ...

Nigeria’s main opposition politicians have announced a new coalition aimed at unseating the ruling party. The Africa Democratic Congress is led by Abubakar Atiku and Peter Obi, both runners-up ...

Fears of another large-scale attack on Christians are growing in Benue state, Nigeria, where Fulani herdsmen slaughtered up ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's president said on Monday that at least 40 people were killed when Muslim gunmen, believed to be herders, attacked a Christian farming community in the north ...

ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday directed security agencies to hunt down the perpetrators of a weekend attack that killed at least 150 people in the country's ...

At least 100 people have been killed in a northcentral Nigerian town following an overnight attack by gunmen, as Amnesty International called for the government to end the “almost daily bloodshed in ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Torrents of predawn rain unleashed flooding that killed at least 111 people in a market town where northern Nigerian farmers sell their wares to traders from the south ...

FILE - Protesters march to remember the 10th anniversary of a military junta's execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa at the city of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005.

Police arrested 22 suspects accused of a mob attack that left at least a dozen people killed two days ago in central Nigeria.

At least 110 people have died in floods caused by torrential rain in central Nigeria, officials have told the BBC. The downpours lasted for several hours, said the head of the Niger State ...

At least 100 people have been killed in a gun attack on a village in Nigeria’s north-central Benue state, Amnesty International Nigeria said. The attack took place between late Friday and the ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 100 people killed by gunmen in north-central Nigeria, rights group says.