Three Nigerian-American women are making history -- and their Olympic dreams come true -- by being the first ever African bobsled team to qualify for the Olympics.
Twenty-one people have died from Lassa fever in Nigeria this month, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said on Wednesday, in the latest outbreak in Africa's most populous nation.
Nigeria’s air force killed at least 35 people in attacks on villages in the northeastern state of Adamawa in December, Amnesty International said in a report on Tuesday.
Separate outbreaks of violence attributed to a Boko Haram attack and clashes between Muslim herders and Christian farmers left at least six people dead in Nigeria, police and local authorities said on Saturday.
The Nigerian government has announced that it is monitoring prominent citizens who are propagating hate speech on social media.
The Nigerian government last year declared that hate speech was now an act of terrorism in Nigeria.
Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to quit as he questions his competence to rule Nigeria beyond his current tenure.
Nigerian police on Tuesday briefly detained activists calling for the release of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram jihadists nearly four years ago, campaigners said.
Nigeria’s economy is projected to grow by 2.1 percent this year according to the International Monetary Fund. The prediction which represents 0.2 percent from the 1.9 percent projected in October 2017 was contained in Fund's World Economic Outlook Update, released on Monday.
Though, the IMF upgraded its growth forecast for the global economy in 2018 to 3.9 percent, it however downgraded the 2018 and 2019 growth forecasts for sub-Saharan Africa to 3.3 percent respectively.
The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari will not seek re-election without considering his state of health as pressure mounts on him to declare his stance on the issue.
