Nigeria

Nigerian banks have opposed a proposal by Etisalat Nigeria to convert part of a $1.2 billion loan from dollars into naira and want Abu Dhabi telecoms group Etisalat and its other shareholders to recapitalise it instead, a source said.

A court in Nigeria has directed that the country's Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control should ensure that the Nigeria Bottling Company Plc warns consumers in the country against taking soft drinks with Vitamin C.

Authorities in Cameroon have announced that about 5,000 persons held captive by Boko Haram militants have been freed.

Four female teenage suicide bombers killed two people and injured 16 others in a residential area in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, a...

Nigeria's inflation rate bucked the trend in February to fall to 17.78 percent, its lowest level in 15 months, driven by a slower rise...

Islamist militant sect Boko Haram on Tuesday released a video purporting to show the execution of three men the group accused of being Nigerian...

President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari has now resumed work after returning home from London where he had gone for medical check-up.

Hard currency curbs imposed by Nigeria's central bank have helped boost local food production, central bank governor Godwin Emefiele was quoted as saying by two newspapers on Sunday.

Two girls believed to be teenagers were killed on Saturday night in Nigeria’s northeastern town of Maiduguri when they attempted to blow themselves up.

The world is facing its largest humanitarian crisis since 1945, the United Nations says, issuing a plea for help to avoid "a catastrophe".