Tag: Nigeria

More than 60 people were killed by a twin suicide bomb attack at a camp in northern Nigeria for people displaced by an insurgency...

A growing Lassa fever outbreak in Nigeria has killed 101 people, as West Africa battles to contain a flare up of the virus, according...

A survivor hidden in a tree says he watched Boko Haram extremists firebomb huts and heard the screams of children burning to death, among...

A child suicide bomber blew himself up in a grain market in Nigeria's restive northeast on Friday, killing at least 10 people, witnesses said. They...

A gas tanker truck ignited an inferno at a crowded industrial gas plant in Nigeria on Thursday, killing more than 100 people lining up...

  At least 21 people were killed and dozens wounded when a male suicide bomber hit a procession of Shia Muslims in Nigeria’s Kano state...

At least 15 people were killed on Wednesday when two female suicide bombers, one said to be aged around 11, blew themselves up at...

Twin bomb blasts have killed at least 18 people at a northeast Nigerian mosque crowded with people observing pre-dawn prayers Friday, a self-defence fighter...

A court-martial sitting in secret on Thursday found Ransome-Kuti not guilty of cowardice and found he was right to withdraw his men in the face of Boko Haram’s superior numbers and firepower

Pakistan is expected to become the sixth largest nation in the world by 2050, according to data published by Population Reference Bureau (PRB). The data...

Authorities in Nigeria’s financial capital Lagos have shut down churches across the city after a glut of complaints over noisy worship. The chaotic megacity’s environmental...

More than 200 prostitutes went on the rampage in a market town in southern Nigeria, torching buildings after their brothels were demolished, local media...

At least 10 foreign women in Pakistan have been deported over “immoral activities” upon orders from Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan. According to details,...

Nigerian soldiers rescued 71 people, almost all girls and women, in firefights that killed many Boko Haram militants in villages near the northeastern city...

A bomb blast hit a busy meat market in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri on Tuesday, killing as many as 50 people, an eyewitness...

Part of the court was set on fire after a bonfire started by protesters caught hold of the building, although it was unclear whether this was deliberate.

Nigeria’s military on Tuesday claimed the rescue of 200 girls and 93 women from a notorious Boko Haram stronghold, but said there was no...