Two dozen schoolgirls freed after kidnapping in northwestern Nigeria last week

Two dozen schoolgirls who were kidnapped from a boarding school in Nigeria’s northwestern Kebbi state last week have been ...

Fifty students escape captors after mass kidnapping in Nigeria but more than 250 still held

Fifty out of the more than 300 students who were abducted from a Catholic school in northern Nigeria on Friday have been ...

Nigerian officials in Washington after Trump’s threats of military action over violence against Christians

Nigerian officials are meeting with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau this week ...

Gunmen kidnap 25 schoolgirls from Nigerian school, kill vice principal

Gunmen attacked a government girls’ boarding school in Nigeria’s Kebbi State early on Monday, killing the vice principal and ...

Armed bandits kidnap more than 300 students from Catholic school in Nigeria

Police in Nigeria’s north-central Niger State reported that a group of armed bandits invaded a private Catholic school abducting hundreds of schoolchildren early on Friday, amid widespread outrage ...
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‘We love you’: Harry plays volleyball with army veterans as he and Meghan get warm welcome in Nigeria

Prince Harry joined in - but lost - a game of sitting volleyball against wounded army veterans as he and his wife Meghan were well received on the latest leg of their tour of Nigeria. The two attended ...
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Floods gush through Nigerian zoo, sweeping snakes and crocodiles into neighborhoods

Floodwaters that gushed from an overflowing dam in northern Nigeria engulfed a zoo and swept animals including crocodiles and snakes into communities, as the region battles some of the worst flooding ...

Nigerian court convicts separatist leader Kanu for terrorism

A Nigerian court on Thursday convicted separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu on all seven terrorism-related charges at the end of a ...
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Nigeria customs investigates deadly crowd crush during sale of seized bags of rice

The Nigeria Customs Service says it is investigating reports people were trampled to death during a sale of bags of confiscated rice amid growing anger over skyrocketing prices of food in Africa’s ...
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29 children may be sentenced to death for protesting against cost-of-living crisis in Nigeria

Twenty-nine children could be facing the death penalty in Nigeria after they were arraigned Friday for participating in a protest against the country’s record cost-of-living crisis. Four of them ...
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More than 100 prisoners on the run after heavy rainfall destroys part of prison in Nigeria

More than 100 prisoners have escaped from a medium security prison in Nigeria after heavy rainfall destroyed part of the facility, the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) said in a press release on ...
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Salsa, taekwondo and go-karts: Leisure time in Lagos

I moved to Lagos earlier this year as CNN’s correspondent for West Africa and so far, it’s been everything I expected and more. I’ve lived abroad a good part of my life and I’ve visited some of the ...