Tag: Nigeria

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.

Five Nigerian soldiers and more than 15 Boko Haram fighters were killed when the jihadists attacked an army base in ...

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

The parents of the 21 Chibok schoolgirls freed by Boko Haram in October must be involved in the Nigerian government's ...

Nigeria has urged "urgent" diplomatic action after one of its citizens died in a violent confrontation with South African police.

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.