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.
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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, (...)
Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu is facing a huge backlash at home over his threat to use military force to reverse the coup in next-door neighbor Niger.
Local media report there was strong opposition to military intervention at a session of the (...)
On behalf of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman Vice Foreign Minister Waleed bin Abdulkarim Al-Khuraiji participated in the inauguration ceremony of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as President of Nigeria on Tuesday.
The Vice Foreign Minister, along (...)
Two kidnapped US embassy staff have been rescued unharmed in Nigeria, say police, days after seven other people traveling in the same convoy were killed.
The attack happened on Tuesday in the south-eastern district of Ogbaru, which has been under (...)
The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) distributed yesterday 23.56 tons of food baskets in Khoteng Governorate, Republic of Nigeria, benefiting 2,400 people.
This distribution is part of the relief and humanitarian projects (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) distributed 56.308 tons of food baskets on Friday in Borno, Nigeria, benefiting 5,736 people as part of the 2023 feeding basket project in Nigeria.
This is in line with the Kingdom of Saudi (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief), yesterday, distributed 164.92 tons of food baskets in several areas in Nigeria, benefiting 20,800 people, as part of the Food Baskets Project in Nigeria for the year 2023.
This comes within (...)
The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has distributed 41 tons and 819 kilograms of food baskets in Bunny Yadi, Yobe State, in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, benefiting 4,260 people, as part of the Feeding Basket (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has distributed 14 tons and 136 kilograms of food baskets to needy families in the Republic of Nigeria, benefitting 1,440 individuals as part of the 2023 Food Basket Project.
This initiative (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has continued distributing food baskets to the neediest families as part of the 2023 Food Basket Project in the Republic of Nigeria.
KSrelief distributed today eleven tons and 780 kilograms (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has distributed 11 tons and 780 kilograms of food baskets in Nigeria, benefiting 1,200 people, within the framework of Feeding Basket Project for 2023.
This comes as part of the relief and (...)
A court in London has convicted three people in a "horrific" plot that tested Britain's new modern slavery laws for the first time
Nigerian Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice, 56, were found guilty in an organ-harvesting scam. Another (...)
Nigeria's electoral commission has postponed governorship elections planned for this weekend by another week, citing limited time to reset its voting machines nearly two weeks after a controversial presidential vote was disputed by opposition (...)