Nigeria
Nigeria senate approves govt's $2.7 bn loan requests
The lawmakers on Wednesday said in a report they approved external borrowing for $1.5 billion and 995 million euros from the World Bank, the Export-Import Bank...
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Gunmen kill university staffer, kidnap students in north Nigeria
It was not immediately clear how many students had been abducted from Greenfield University during the Tuesday night attack and one official said they were still conducting a headcount.
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65,000 flee attacks on northeast Nigeria town: UN
Fighters from the so-called Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) stormed the town in Borno state three times in a week to strike a military garrison, burning homes and a UN office and killing at least 12 people.
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7 years on, more than 100 Chibok girls still missing
Several more mass kidnappings of schoolchildren have occurred in northern Nigeria since Chibok, resulting in hundreds of schools being shut in a region where the literacy rate and school enrolment are already very low.
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Police station attacked in southeast Nigeria a day after jailbreak
The police station in the town of Ehime Mbano in Imo state was set ablaze on Tuesday after it was raided by gunmen, police spokesman Orlando Ikeokwu said.
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More than 1,800 prisoners escape after attack on Nigeria jail: official
The attackers blasted their way into the Owerri prison in Imo state, engaging guards in a gun battle, the national corrections authority said in a statement.
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Nigeria state outlaws negotiations with student kidnappers
Dozens of gunmen last month seized the students from their hostels in the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization in Afaka near the state capital Kaduna, after a gunfight with soldiers.
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Nigerian air force dismisses Boko Haram claim over jet
The Alpha jet lost radar contact on Wednesday while on a mission to support troops battling jihadists in the northeastern Borno state. The air force said it believed the jet with two crew may have crashed.
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Nigeria's Buhari to visit UK Tuesday for 'medical check up'
Buhari visited London several times for checkups between May 2016, when he was first elected, and 2017 for an undisclosed ailment.
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UK university to return looted African sculpture
It is the first institution to agree to the full repatriation from a museum of a Benin bronze, raising pressure on other establishments, including the British Museum, to follow suit.
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Electricity restored in Nigerian city two months after jihadist attack
The attack on January 26 was the third time in a month that militants from the IS-linked Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) group had plunged the city into darkness.
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Italy court acquits Eni, Shell in Nigeria corruption case
In 2011, Eni and Shell paid $1.3 billion dollars for a licence on OPL 245, a giant offshore oilfield in Nigeria estimated to hold nine billion barrels of crude.
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UN says $1 billion needed for Nigeria humanitarian crisis
Despite ongoing military operations to end a decade-long jihadist insurgency, the conflict continues to kill and force people from their homes.
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Nigeria steps up hunt for 39 kidnapped students
Gunmen stormed the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation in Mando at the outskirts of the state capital, Kaduna city, late Thursday and took 39 students away while the military rescued 180 after a fierce battle.
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Parents of kidnapped Nigerian children can only wait
After stoning an official convoy that tried to reach the school on Friday, resigned parents waited for news from a rescue mission that was trying to locate the girls.
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Gangs kill 31 in Nigeria attacks: local sources
The shooting forced students from a secondary school in the village to abandon their classes for fear of abduction, said another resident, Sahame Umar, who gave a similar toll.
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Nigeria eases curfew in town of kidnapped schoolgirls
The 279 girls were abducted on February 26 from the Government Secondary School in Jangebe by gunmen who are known locally as bandits.
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Freed Nigerian school girls to reunite with parents
Medical checks had shown the girls were all fit to return to their families, said Zamfara state education commissioner Ibrahim Abdullahi.
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Africa virus fight boosted as jabs reach Nigeria, Angola
Kenya received its first shipment of just over 1 million Covax-funded AstraZeneca/Oxford shots early on Wednesday.
