Tag: Nigeria

Abuja: Authorities in Nigeria said they have freed at least 100 women and children -- mainly mothers nursing infants, who ...

New Delhi: After banning micro-blogging site Twitter indefinitely, the Nigerian government has officially joined the Indian social media app Koo, ...

Abuja: The Nigerian government has indefinitely suspended Twitter, just days after it accused the US micro-blogging platform of double standards ...

Abuja: Nigerian troops have killed 10 Boko Haram militants while thwarting an attempted attack on a military base in the ...

Lagos (Nigeria):  Gunmen have attacked a school in northwestern Nigeria and kidnapped at least 30 students just weeks after a ...

Abuja: Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has said 69 people have been killed in protests against police brutality that have rocked ...

Lagos: Nigerian authorities said Tuesday that nearly 2,000 inmates had broken out of jail after crowds attacked two prisons, while ...

Maiduguri (Nigeria): Suspected members of the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram have killed at least 69 people in Nigeria’s northeast. ...

Nigeria: At least 70 Nigerian soldiers were killed in an ambush on their convoy by jihadist fighters in the restive ...

Niamey: Twenty people, many of them women and children, were trampled to death Monday in a stampede for food and ...