Tag: Muhammadu Buhari

Seven suspected Boko Haram militants blew themselves on the outskirts of a northeast Nigerian city on Friday.

More than 700 people took to the streets in the Nigerian capital Abuja on Thursday to protest against the government's ...

Nigeria's absentee President is in good health and is expected to return home soon, his deputy said on Monday, after ...

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday asked parliament to extend his medical leave, his office said in a statement, after ...

Nigeria has picked an African Development Bank power expert to run its electricity transmission company.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari plans to take 10 days of medical leave from Monday, he said in a letter read ...

The office of the United Nations Secretary General has indicated it remains hopeful that the constitutional prescripts for the transfer ...

The Federal Government of Nigeria has severed diplomatic ties with Taiwan and has ordered the country to move its trade ...

Nigeria's lower house voted on Thursday to offer Gambian President Yahya Jammeh asylum if he steps down, lawmakers said.

West African leaders are still pursuing mediation to ensure a peaceful transfer of power in Gambia where President Yahya Jammeh ...

West African leaders will take a"major decision" on the political impasse in Gambia at a meeting in Ghana on Saturday, ...

Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh accused ECOWAS of declaring war, after it said it was putting forces on alert in case ...

A group of former Nigerian militants said on Sunday it had lost confidence in the president's efforts to end attacks ...

Nigeria's government will seek a lasting peace settlement with militants in the oil-producing southern Niger Delta region in 2017, President ...

Dozens of Boko Haram fighters have given themselves up to authorities in southern Niger, the interior minister said.

A suicide bomber attacked a cattle market on Monday in Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria, the city worst hit in the ...

Nigeria's army has captured a key Boko Haram camp, the Islamist militant group's last enclave in the vast Sambisa forest ...

A group of 21 Chibok schoolgirls freed by Boko Haram militants in October after two-and-a-half years in captivity in northeastern ...

West Africa's regional bloc has put standby forces "on alert" in case Gambian president Yahya Jammeh does not step down.