A Nigerian university is facing backlash after a viral video appeared to show young women who were queuing for exams being checked for whether they were wearing bras before being allowed in.
In a short clip that spread quickly on social media, two (...)
Nigeria's president has pardoned the late activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, 30 years after his execution sparked global outrage.
Along with eight other campaigners, Saro-Wiwa was convicted of murder, then hanged in 1995 by the then-military regime.
Many (...)
At the age of 24, Nafisa Salahu was in danger of becoming just another statistic in Nigeria, where a woman dies giving birth every seven minutes, on average.
Going into labor during a doctors' strike meant that, despite being in hospital, there was (...)
A Nigerian senator who alleged she was sexually harassed by one of the country's top politicians has told the BBC the Senate operates like a "cult".
A fortnight ago, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan was suspended for six months after submitting a petition (...)
Stampedes at three Christmas charity events across Nigeria have tragically left at least 67 people dead in the past week, many of them children.
At least 35 children were killed in southwestern Oyo state on Wednesday. And on Saturday, 22 people died (...)
Nigeria's army chief General Taoreed Lagbaja has died after a "period of illness" aged 56, President Bola Tinubu has announced.
He died on Tuesday night in Lagos. The exact details of his illness were not shared.
In a statement shared on X by (...)
At least 94 people were killed in northern Nigeria when a crashed tanker exploded near locals who had gathered to retrieve fuel, police said.
The toll is expected to rise from the blast, which happened late evening local time on Tuesday in Majiya, a (...)
A zookeeper has been mauled to death by a lion in southwestern Nigeria after he failed to secure the locks on its enclosure when he went to feed it, police say.
The victim, a 35-year-old man, worked at the Presidential Library Wildlife Park, owned (...)
At least 48 people have been killed in the central Nigerian state of Niger, after a fuel tanker collided with a lorry carrying passengers and cattle, the country's disaster agency said.
The Niger State Emergency Management Agency said the collision (...)
RIYADH —King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) signed a cooperation agreement with a civil society organization to implement a project to drill 21 medium-depth solar-powered wells in the regions of Abuja, Enugu, Kano, Osun, Oyo, (...)
Millions of residents in northern Nigeria have been placed under 24-hour curfews amid nationwide protests against the high cost of living.
Governments in the states of Kano, Jigawa, Yobe and Katsina have ordered locals not to leave their homes — and (...)
Authorities in Niger have declared a curfew in the volatile Tillaberi region after several prisoners escaped from a heavily fortified jail known to hold militants.
The incident occurred on Thursday at Koutoukale prison located about 50 kilometers (...)
The 37-year-old poverty alleviation minister denied any wrongdoing when she was suspended in January
Nigeria has recovered 30bn naira ($24m; £19m) as part of an ongoing corruption probe into a suspended minister, the financial watchdog says.
The (...)
ABUJA ‐ Nigerian pupils taken by gunmen in a mass abduction in the north-western town of Kuriga earlier this month have been freed "unharmed", officials said.
Kaduna state governor Uba Sani said they had been rescued thanks to the courage of the (...)
Gunmen who kidnapped at least 287 schoolchildren in Nigeria last Thursday have demanded a ransom of 1 billion naira ($621,848) and threatened to kill all of the students if their demands are not met, a member of the local community told CNN on (...)
Armed men have shot dead a traditional ruler, and kidnapped his wife plus one other person in south-western Nigeria, authorities say.
The attackers stormed the palace of Segun Aremu -- a retired army general and monarch whose official title is the (...)
Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have announced they are leaving the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
The junta-led countries had already been suspended from the bloc, which has been urging them to return to democratic rule.
The three (...)
Nigerian police say they have successfully rescued five sisters who were held hostage after being kidnapped in the country's capital.
The girls were freed in a joint police-army operation in a forest in northern Nigeria on Saturday night.
They were (...)
Emergency response officials said at least 85 people have been confirmed dead after a "mistaken" army drone attack on a religious gathering in northwest Nigeria.
The victims were killed Sunday night by drones "targeting terrorists and bandits" in (...)
Coup leaders in Niger have overturned an eight-year-old law criminalising migrant smuggling in the country.
The legislation allowed authorities to take action against smugglers who transported migrants through Niger's vast desert on to Libya and (...)
Five men have been jailed for 12 years each in Nigeria after they were convicted of exhuming a human skull.
They had planned to take it to a traditional doctor who said it was needed for rituals that would make them rich.
The men pleaded guilty (...)
There is no evidence that the diploma Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu submitted to the country's electoral commission was forged, the BBC's Global Disinformation Team has found.
Allegations that President Tinubu's certificates were faked went (...)
Nigeria has been hit by widespread power cuts following a "total system collapse", electricity distribution companies say.
Levels of power being generated fell to zero megawatts early on Thursday.
Some supplies have been restored but only a tiny (...)
The leaders of a global wildlife trafficking gang have been convicted after a four-year investigation and a trial in Nigeria.
They pleaded guilty last month to smuggling the scales of endangered African pangolins.
These "top-of-the-pyramid" (...)
The United Nations continues to deliver aid in Niger, nearly three weeks since President Mohamed Bazoum was seized by some of his guards in a power grab.
Agencies continue to reach people despite the challenges, including the ongoing rainy season, (...)
