Tag: Nigeria

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister (PM) Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Tuesday said that Pakistan could provide cooperation to Nigeria in various sectors including health, infrastructure, education and...

ABUJA: A leading member of a separatist movement in Cameroon has been taken into custody in the capital of neighbouring Nigeria with his aides,...

MAIDUGURI: Another abducted Nigerian schoolgirl has been rescued, the army said on Thursday, bringing to 163 the number of the girls who have either escaped...

ABUJA: A suicide bomber killed 11 people on Wednesday in an attack on a mosque in northeast Nigeria, the epicentre of the conflict with...

WARRI: Gunmen killed at least 14 churchgoers returning from a midnight service on Monday in Nigeria’s Rivers State, a police source said, the latest...

LAGOS: Amnesty International on Tuesday called for Shell to be prosecuted for allegedly helping Nigeria’s military to commit human rights abuses in the oil-rich south...

BAUCHI, Nigeria: Unidentified attackers killed more than 30 cattle herders in the northeastern Nigerian state of Adamawa, reported on Tuesday. The attack, in the Numan...

KANO: A female suicide bomber killed five people on Tuesday when she blew herself up in a mosque in northeast Nigeria, in the latest...

A spurt in attacks by Boko Haram Islamists has claimed nearly 400 lives since April in Nigeria and Cameroon, double the figure of the...

KANO: At least 52 aid workers and civilians were killed on Tuesday when an air force jet accidentally bombed a camp in northeast Nigeria...

While grain silos in many Western countries may overflow this winter, tens of millions of people risk going without food as hunger is being...

Nigeria has shelved a plan to build a $10 million film village outside the mainly Muslim northern city of Kano, bowing to virulent opposition...

“Take us away from this hell,” said Boussam, a mother of seven cradling skeletal goats in Niger’s Assaga camp, where thousands of desperate refugees...

British Prime Minister David Cameron has called Nigeria and Afghanistan “possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world” even as he hailed their...

A new video showing some of the Nigerian schoolgirls who were kidnapped two years ago gives hope they may return, their family and friends...

Boko Haram seized hundreds of children from a remote town in northeast Nigeria in late 2014 but initial calls to report the kidnapping were...

Two female suicide bombers killed at least 24 worshippers and wounded 18 in an attack during dawn prayers Wednesday on a mosque on the...