He once advised Nigerians to defend themselves whenever they were attacked by bandits and other criminal elements. He said so ...

Nigeria’s military has been in decline for the past 16 years, says J. Peter Pham, director of the Africa Center at the Washington D.C.- based Atlantic Council, ever since the country moved from ...

Muhammadu Buhari died at 82 in a London clinic on July 13. The strongman-turned-democrat led Nigeria twice - as a military ...

GENEVA – Gains made by a military campaign against Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria have in recent weeks exposed catastrophic levels of suffering among the population of the area, many of whom have ...

Amara was born in a “maternity” in Benin City, in 1988, when Nigeria’s population was just 90.4 million. ... He rose to power in 1975, during a decade of successive military governments, ...

Aid agencies are unable to respond effectively to the crisis in northeastern Nigeria due to worsening insecurity and stifling operational requirements imposed by military and civilian authorities.