Nigerian authorities in the north-western Zamfara state have called on locals to arm themselves against criminal gangs in an attempt to deal with the increasing numbers of kidnappings and violent ...
A second Nigerian politician has been beheaded by abductors in the south-east of the country, the authorities say. Police in Anambra state say the decapitated body of a former local ...
An alleged mass kidnapping in Nigeria, seemingly reported live on Twitter on Tuesday, was fake, police say. The news of the alleged abductions came from Twitter user @Ameerah_sufyan, who had ...
Dozens of women in the Nigerian town of Owo have been marching to voice their outrage at the killing of at least 22 people in a local church at the ...
Grace was being shared when the first shot rang out. For dozens of worshippers at the St Francis Catholic Church in Owo, south-western Nigeria, the Lord's prayer turned into a ...
Gunmen have killed church worshippers in Ondo state, south-west Nigeria. President Muhammadu Buhari said "only fiends from the nether region" could have done this "dastardly act". The armed men entered ...
The Nigerian government has banned the sale of bushmeat as a precaution to stop the spread of monkeypox. Six cases have been detected in the country this month bringing to ...
The European Union is strengthening relations with Nigeria as it seeks to diversify sources of its natural gas imports in an attempt to reduce reliance on Russian energy. Nigeria is ...
Seven passengers have died after gunmen attacked a busy train between Nigeria's capital, Abuja, and Kaduna city, hospital sources have told the BBC. The gang mined the track forcing the ...
Armed with a sharp knife, a megaphone and dressed all in black, Gbenga Adewoyin could have passed for a medieval witch hunter, a herbal salesman or an urban preacher as ...
