The police urged Nigerians not to take the law into their own hands, after "reported attacks on Nigerians in South Africa".

Abula, a Nigerian sport inspired by the Yoruba concept of a balanced meal, aims to grow from a local pastime into an internationally recognised game.

Filmmaker Meji Alabi directs a landmark BBC Africa Eye documentary about Nigeria's civil war.

Nigeria's government is making "no meaningful effort" to rescue more than 250 children abducted from a Catholic boarding school in the central state of Niger last Friday, the main Catholic cleric in ...

Nigeria's Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, has resigned from his position with immediate effect for health reasons, the president's office has said. The 63-year-old's departure coincides ...

With the elections starting in a few days, what is the BBC’s plan to combat fake news during this period? What we are doing and what we have done is to look at what the candidates are saying – in ...

Because Nigeria consumes a lot of news… With 41.3 million people consuming BBC content every week in Nigeria, this is the largest market for the BBC outside the United Kingdom. Hausa has the largest ...