Nigeria

President of the African Development Bank Dr Akinwumi Adesina has been awarded with the World Food Prize for helping Africa get it right in agriculture and making it a key player of securing food for the world. The World Food Prize board chose Adesina this year for the $250,000 prize, highlighting his role in improving the availability of seed, fertilizer and financing for African farmers, and for laying the foundations for the youth in Africa to engage in agriculture as a profitable business."

An investigator at Nigeria's financial crimes agency was shot after leaving his office, underlining the dangers faced by those looking into corruption, the Economic...

Ibraheema Yakubu was detained and beaten by police officers while reporting on a protest rally in Kaduna as an accredited journalist for DW's Hausa...

Suicide bombers killed nine people and wounded 13 others in multiple blasts in northeast Nigeria's Maiduguri, police said on Monday, the latest in a...

A Nigerian court has ruled that the forcible eviction of tens of thousands of people from a waterfront slum in Lagos is unconstitutional. The judge...

Embattled Etisalat Nigeria, a telecom giant, may get respite as key institutions are reported to be finding a solution to its financial predicament. The company...

At least five women suspected of abducting and selling a boy for less than $2000 have been arrested by police in Nigeria. According to local...

Five female suicide bombers killed 12 people and wounded 11 in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, birthplace of the Islamist militant Boko Haram insurgency, police...

Young girls and women from Nigeria are being trafficked to Ghana and lured into prostitution by a syndicate under the pretext of securing them...

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday signed the 2017 budget almost four weeks after the National Assembly transmitted the appropriation bill to the presidency. At...