Nigeria, Africa

A few days after villagers in Kedere in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta region noticed oil seeping from the pipe that runs beside the village, a few...

At least four people have been killed in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna during a violent protest over a three-year power blackout in a poor...

The success of the Universal Basic Education (UBE) programme which aims to provide free education to every child in Nigeria caused the number of...

Police and government officials in northern Nigeria’s city of Kano have reported an upsurge in incidents of child rape and said that young girls are...

A new ultra-modern US $58 million water treatment plant outside Kano, officially Nigeria’s most populous city, came on line in December but experts...

Police and government officials in northern Nigeria’s city of Kano have reported an upsurge in incidents of child rape and said that young girls are...

A scheme to give one million low-cost laptops to Nigerian schoolchildren has stalled because some policymakers say the money would be better spent...

At least three people have been killed and nine seriously injured in a clash between farmers and nomads over grazing land in Borno state, northern...

Nigerian police arrested former Delta State governor James Ibori Wednesday on charges of abuse of office, corruption, and money laundering. ...

In a welcome centre in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, a small finger traces the words of an English text book; a young voice struggles to pronounce the...