Parents sobbed, mobbed their children in hugs and even kissed the ground in gratitude on Friday as they reunited with scores of Nigerian schoolboys wh...
Security forces rescued nearly 350 Nigerian schoolboys who had been kidnapped and taken into a vast forest, Katsina state Governor said. It was not...
The Nigerian military had located and exchanged fire with gunmen who kidnapped scores of secondary school students in northwestern Katsina state, acco...
A section of Nigerian citizens camped outside the High Commission in Nairobi on Wednesday protesting over the injustices by the Special Anti-Robbery S...
A Nigerian official collapsed on Monday during a televised parliamentary hearing held as part of an investigation into allegations of mismanagement at...
Nigeria is reopening schools for the graduating class on the advice of a task force that students get help in preparing for examinations. ...
The Nigerian government has lifted restrictions placed on religious gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic. The previous ban on religious and s...
The Nigerian president’s chief of staff, Abba Kyari, died on Friday after contracting the new coronavirus, two presidency spokesmen said on Twitter....
Africa's ailing presidents and powerful elites have been known to jet out to seek treatment abroad, instead of investing in healthcare in their own co...
Many countries in Africa are imposing lockdowns on their citizens as they race to curb the spread of coronavirus. But it has further highlighted th...
Cases of coronavirus in Africa have so far been few and spread across the continent but the numbers are rising rapidly as Nigeria and South Africa on ...
At least 30 people, including a pregnant woman and a baby, are dead after suspected Boko Haram militants set fire on sleeping travelers in Borno state...
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has announced that all African visitors will from January receive visas on arrival. Speaking in Egypt during th...
Famed German Evangelist and founder of Christ for All Nations organisation Reinhard Bonnke has died at the age of 79. According to a statement rele...
President Uhuru Kenyatta on Tuesday held talks with King Abdullah II of Jordan in Saudi Arabia. During the meeting on the sidelines of the Future I...
Nigeria has closed all its land borders stopping the movement of goods except by sea. The customs agency which is in charge of the country's border...
Nigeria will on Wednesday begin to evacuate hundreds of it citizens from Johannesburg in South Africa following a series of xenophobic attacks. The...
The South African Government has shut down its embassy in Lagos, Nigeria as xenophobic attacks continued to have ripple effects on the continent. A...
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has sent a special envoy to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa following reports of a spate of xenophobic att...
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has instructed the country's central bank to stop providing foreign currency for food imports, according to a sta...