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 ...

Nigeria has cemented its position as Africa’s most advanced digital payments economy, recording 7.9 billion real-time ...

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but Nigeria’s northeast has been hit by attacks carried out by Islamic ...

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

For instance, the 200 km distance from Fufore to Jalingo, the Taraba State capital, is less than half the 450 km distance between Borno and Taraba state. ISS data suggests that the prison break ...

Opinion - Either out of habit or an oversupply of bad news by politicians and their cousins in business, news reports by journalists have never been more toxic, more hopeless ...

Nigeria’s North Central region has been engulfed in protracted conflict for decades. But the violence receives less humanitarian attention, government intervention and global publicity than Boko Haram ...

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has forecast widespread thunderstorms and rain showers across various parts of the ...

On the night of June 21, a woman detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) in a crowd of people at a fish market in ...

Nigeria's army says gunmen have killed at least 14 soldiers in clashes in the country's troubled north. A spokesperson says hundreds of gunmen were planning to attack villages from their ...

ABUJA, Nigeria — A suicide bomber in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno killed at least 10 people and injured several others in an explosion in a restaurant, police said Saturday. The blast ...

Though other factors are surely at play, church leaders in Nigeria insist the attacks are part of a systematic campaign to drive Christians from the region or force their conversion.