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African medics struggle in virus 'war zone'
Rising infections, shortages of protective equipment and growing strains are some of the issues faced by health workers in Africa as they battle the coronavirus.
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Nigeria reports surge in rapes during virus lockdown
The attacks have sparked an outcry online and street protests that forced officials to pledge renewed efforts to tackle widespread sexual violence in the country.
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Nigerian doctors strike, but virus facilities exempt
The organisation had threatened the strike over a raft of issues, including the 'grossly inadequate' provision of protective equipment and calls for hazard pay for those working on the virus.
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Nigeria jihadist attack toll rises to 81
Residents said that men, women, and children had been mown down by the insurgents as they watched over their cattle at a watering hole outside the village.
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At least half of mystery deaths in Nigeria's Kano due to COVID-19 - minister
The Kano state government had said the deaths were caused by complications from hypertension, diabetes, meningitis and acute malaria and not the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Nigeria's Nollywood gets creative to cope with virus crisis
Inspired by his wife's teleconferencing calls from their isolation in Britain, he wrote and put together a short feature about a couple separated between London and Lagos.
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Nigeria's Buhari backs Africa bank head despite US demands
Bank president Akinwumi Adesina, a former Nigerian minister for agriculture, is battling to secure a second term at the helm of the multilateral lender in the face of opposition from Washington.
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Nigerians mass online to demand '#justice' for abuses
The latest outpouring of anger has been unleashed by the cases of three women and girls who were killed or raped in incidents activists say showcase the sexual violence and police brutality widespread in Nigeria.
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Nigeria easing virus restrictions on churches, mosques
The authorities however warned that Africa's most populous nation has "not reached the peak" of infections after recording 10,162 confirmed cases and 287 deaths from the virus.
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Cameras roll again in Nollywood but Nigeria's cinemas still dark
Cameras stopped rolling weeks ago due to the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 300,000 people worldwide, including 200 in the West African country.
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Nigeria doctors to strike over treatment by police during lockdown
Essential workers were given the right to move at all times, but the doctors say this has not been properly implemented.
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Nigeria to impose 'precision lockdown' in coronavirus hotspots - task force head
The government said its phased reopening of strict lockdowns in Lagos, Abuja, and Ogun states would also go more slowly than initially planned, and the current phase of the gradual reopening would last a further two weeks.
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Nigeria oil industry scrambles as price fall slams economy
The challenge may be even bigger for Nigeria than for other producers scrambling to cope with the plummet in prices unleashed by the pandemic and a price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia.
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42,000 flee violence in northwestern Nigeria
The UN agency said the refugees, 'mainly desperate women and children', were being allowed to seek protection in Niger despite border closures as a result of the new coronavirus pandemic.
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Man sentenced to death in Nigeria's first virtual ruling
Lagos judge Mojisola Dada on Monday ordered death by hanging for Olalekan Hameed, a driver, over the 2018 murder of 76-year-old Jolasun Okunsanya, the mother of his boss.
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Nigeria to ease lockdown for millions in key cities
More than 25 million residents in Abuja, Lagos and neighbouring Ogun state have been under federal lockdown since 30 March and other states have introduced their own restrictions.
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Buhari asks Nigeria's chief judge to free prisoners because of coronavirus
President Muhammadu Buhari said inmates with no confirmed criminal cases against them, elderly prisoners, and those who were terminally ill could be discharged.
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Africa's billionaires called to help coronavirus fight
Nigeria is Africa's largest oil producer and biggest economy, boasting a handful of billionaires whose super yachts can be seen bobbing on the waters of megacity Lagos.
