Nigeria
Nigeria police warn against planned Lagos end Sars protests
The #EndSARS movement began in October 2020 initially over abuses by the notorious SARS anti-robbery squad but grew into the largest anti-government protests in...
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Nigeria rescues nearly 200 kidnap victims in northwest
The rescued victims - 187 men, women and children - were freed in Zamfara State, where they had been kidnapped in separate bandit attacks, police said late Thursday.
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Nigerian doctors to resume work after two-months' strike
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), which represents around 40% of the doctors in Africa's most populous country, said that while some issues were yet to be resolved, some of their requested payments had been made.
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Nigerian gunmen release 10 kidnapped students
Assailants stormed Bethel Baptist High School on July 5 on the outskirts of Kaduna city, abducting 121 students who were sleeping in their dorms.
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Nigeria arrests three over Baptist school abduction
Three of the captors have been arrested along with 47 other suspects accused of other crimes, national police spokesperson Frank Mba said late Thursday.
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Nigeria, Ghana sprint to join digital currency race
Central banks in both countries have partnered with foreign financial tech companies to create digital versions of their currencies, joining the global train of countries exploring the initiative.
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Cholera kills over 2,300 in Nigeria's worst outbreak in years
Health sector sources said this year’s outbreak, with a higher fatality rate than the previous four years, was worsened by the priority given to the coronavirus epidemic.
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Gunmen kill police inspector in southeast Nigeria
In the attack on Sunday, gunmen ambushed a police patrol in the commercial town of Onitsha in Anambra state and opened fire, state police spokesman Ikenga Tochukwu said in a statement.
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Dozens of abducted students freed in NW Nigeria after army offensive
The students were freed on Sunday after nearly a fortnight in captivity.
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Gunmen kill 12 in attack on Nigeria military base in northwest: security sources
It was not immediately clear who carried out the Saturday raid in Mutumji, but the army is engaged in operations in Zamfara against armed criminal gangs known as bandits who are blamed for a series of mass abductions.
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Nigeria cuts phone network in restive northern state
Gangs of criminals known locally as bandits snatched 73 children from a local school on Wednesday in the latest mass kidnapping in the country's northwest.
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Two Nigerian states try out COVID vaccine passes
Health passes or vaccine passports, required for entry to places like restaurants, gyms and cinemas, are already in place in some European countries though they have triggered protests in France, Greece and Italy as unfair to the unvaccinated.
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Nigeria's Buhari urges unity after massacres in flashpoint city
At least 23 Muslim travellers were killed earlier this month when their bus convoy was attacked outside Jos. Police had blamed a suspected Christian militia.
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Security crisis drives up Nigeria's food worries
The agricultural heartland, like Nigeria's northwestern states, is in the grip of years-long tit-for-tat violence between nomadic herders and farmers -- a feud that has sharpened as climate change intensifies competition for water and land.
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Nigeria govt says to lift Twitter ban soon
The ban in June came days after Twitter deleted a remark from President Muhammadu Buhari's account, provoking an international outcry over freedom of expression.
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Nigerian police ordered to free 5 anti-Buhari activists
The men were arrested early this month by the Department of State Service (DSS) during a church service led by a well-known evangelical pastor in the Nigerian capital Abuja.
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Nigeria receives six warplanes from US to fight insurgency
The planes are part of a deal that includes supplying the Nigerian armed forces with ammunition, training, and aircraft maintenance, according to a US official.
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Nigerian kidnappers free three students abducted in restive northwest
Heavily-armed gangs, known locally as bandits, have long plagued northwest and central Nigeria by looting, stealing cattle and abducting for ransom, but they have lately targeted schools and colleges.
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One hundred kidnapped villagers freed in Nigeria
Heavily-armed gangs known locally as bandits have long plagued northwest and central Nigeria by looting, stealing cattle and abducting for ransom.
