A suspected thief has been arrested for allegedly stealing worshippers’ shoes during prayer sessions at a mosque in Jigawa State, Nigeria.
According to reports, the...
Nearly 400 people have been sentenced in Nigeria for links with militant Islamic groups following mass trials.
The convicts were given sentences ranging from five...
The US has urged its citizens to reconsider travelling to Nigeria, citing risks such as terrorism, civil unrest and kidnapping.
The state department's travel update...
Nigerian security forces were in pursuit of gunmen after a large ​group of bandits abducted residents from villages ‌in northwest Zamfara state, police said,...
Nigeria's medical council has provisionally suspended the director of a private hospital and two other doctors following the death of the 21-month-old son of...
The Lagos State magistrates' court sitting in Ikorodu has approved three laboratories abroad for the DNA test of the late singer Mohbad’s son, Liam.
The...
About 100 U.S. military personnel have arrived in Nigeria as Washington scales up an operation to target Islamist insurgents, a Nigerian defence spokesperson said.
U.S....
Gunmen killed three people and abducted a Catholic priest during an early morning attack on the clergyman's residence in northern Nigeria's Kaduna state,...
Police in Rivers State, Nigeria, have arrested a Ghanaian national, Samuel Frimpong, for allegedly removing the roof of his tenant’s apartment following a tenancy...
Operatives of the Bayelsa State Police Command’s Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Unit have arrested a pastor, Elijah Oro, over an alleged plot to...
Police in northern Nigeria say reports that worshippers were abducted on Sunday from churches in Kaduna state were false.
In a joint statement with local...
Nigeria's government has hired a U.S. lobbying firm to nurture ties with the Trump administration and counter what it says is misinformation from Christian...
Popular Nollywood actor, Yomi Gold, has been hospitalised in Morocco after a sudden health scare.
Yomi, who was left unconscious after a sudden severe headache,...
At least 30 villagers have been killed while several others were abducted by gunmen who raided a village in northern Nigeria’s Niger state, police said Sunday,...
US Congressman Riley Moore has hailed recent airstrikes in North West Nigeria as a decisive move to protect Christian communities and tackle the ongoing...
Nigerian authorities say they have secured the release of the remaining 130 schoolchildren and teachers kidnapped from a Catholic boarding school in the country's...
Nigerian authorities say they have secured the release of the remaining 130 schoolchildren kidnapped from a Catholic boarding school in the country's central Niger...
Nigeria's House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to look into a dispute between the country's downstream oil regulator and Dangote Refinery over allegations about arbitrary fuel-import...
Nigeria’s richest man Aliko Dangote escalated his fight with regulators on Sunday, accusing them of enabling cheap fuel imports that threaten local refineries.
Nigeria is Africa’s biggest...
Nigeria's Defence Minister, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, has resigned, the presidency said on Monday, with immediate effect.
Presidential spokesperson Mayo Onanuga said in a statement that Abubakar was...
Gunmen have abducted at least 20 people, including a pastor and a new bride, in two separate attacks in the latest Nigerian kidnappings.
Attackers stormed...
Nigeria's government is making "no meaningful effort" to rescue more than 250 children abducted from a Catholic boarding school in the central state of...
The Edo State Police Command has arraigned 24-year-old content creator, Osarobo Omoyemen, for allegedly staging her own kidnapping to attract attention and followers on...
The Federal Government has ordered the immediate closure of 41 Federal Unity Colleges over rising security concerns.
The directive was issued through a circular dated...
