Police fired teargas to disperse protesters on Wednesday demanding compensation following mass evictions carried out by the ...

Sustained gunfire and loud blasts were heard early on Thursday near Niamey International Airport in Niger, according to a Reuters witness.

On Wednesday, police in Nigeria’s largest city fired tear gas on people protesting the ongoing demolition of Makoko, an enormous informal settlement that stretches out into the Lagos Lagoon. With over ...

Nigerian police fired tear gas to disperse residents protesting in Lagos on Wednesday over demolition work in one of Africa's ...

The governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo- Olu, and the Chairman of the Governing Council of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Chief Wole Olanipekun, have given reasons why all Nigerians should ...

President Donald Trump described a Dec. 25 airstrike on suspected insurgent camps as a ‘Christmas present’ from the US. Many ...

Three police officers were killed and two others wounded when suspected armed gang members ambushed a routine patrol in northwest Nigeria's Katsina state on Tuesday, the police said on Wednesday.

In Nigeria, as elsewhere, democratic governance is best understood not as a straight line or some mathematical progression, but as a learning curve--a nonlinear process shaped by all the things that ...

Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, often called “the conscience of the nation,” has been trying to tone down the uproar after ...