Tag: Nigeria

Nigeria were officially awarded the men's 4x400m relay gold medal from the 2000 Olympics on Saturday following a meeting of the International Olympic Committee...

At least 95 people who went to scoop up oil from an overturned oil tanker were killed after the vehicle caught fire, a road...

Gunfire and explosions rocked a northeastern Nigerian city as security forces launched a pre-emptive offensive against Boko Haram Islamists, leaving three dead, police said...

Rescuers searched for bodies and hospitals struggled to find blood Monday after suicide attacks on three churches in Nigeria and subsequent rioting killed at...

Multiple church bombings in Nigeria and subsequent rioting by Christian youths targeting Muslims killed at least 21 people on Sunday, officials and residents said. Bomb...

Bombs rocked three churches in neighbouring cities in Nigeria’s northern Kaduna state on Sunday, injuring dozens of worshippers, emergency services and residents said. The...

Explosions hit two churches in the restive northern Nigerian city of Zaria Sunday, in the latest violence in the region, emergency services and residents...

A suicide bomber drove his car at a church in central Nigeria while gunmen opened fire on another church in the northeast Sunday, killing...

Nigerian rescuers searching for victims after a plane crashed into a densely populated area of Lagos killing all 153 people on board said they...

A suicide bomber who tried to drive an explosives-packed car into a church in northern Nigeria on Sunday killed 15 people and injured 40,...

Bomb blasts targeting newspaper offices in Nigeria’s capital Abuja and the northern city of Kaduna on Thursday killed at least six people in the...

Nigeria on Saturday quizzed suspected kidnappers of two Westerners killed during a failed British-Nigerian rescue operation amid a row between Italy and Britain over...

A suicide bomber smashed his explosives-laden car through the gates of a packed church during Sunday service in Jos, central Nigeria, killing three people...

Security forces patrolled an extensive market in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri on Tuesday where an assault by suspected Islamists killed some 30 people,...

Suspected Islamist gunmen bombed their way into a prison in central Nigeria before opening fire on the wardens and emptying the jail of its...

Gunmen in Nigeria have killed at least one officer after opening fire on a police station in the city of Kano, where attacks claimed...

Nigeria has arrested 200 people, mostly Chadian “mercenaries,” after last week’s attacks in the north, a police source said Thursday, as pressure mounts on...