Alleged Nigerian serial killer changes plea to not guilty after confessing to slaying nine women
A suspected Nigerian serial killer reversed his plea to not guilty in court Thursday after earlier confessing to strangling nine women in a string of ritual-style killings. Gracious David West, 26, was arrested in September on accusations he lured his victims to hotels in Port ...
Nigerian police have freed 259 people from an Islamic rehabilitation center in the southwestern city of Ibadan, police said on Tuesday, taking the number rescued from abusive institutions since September to nearly 1,500. Images from local TV station TVC taken after the captives were released ...
Nigerian police rescue 67 from 'inhuman' conditions at Islamic 'school'
Police in northern Nigeria rescued nearly 70 men and boys from a second purported Islamic school where they were shackled and subjected to "inhuman and degrading treatments." The raid in Katsina, the northwestern home state of President Muhammadu Buhari, came less a month after about ...
Nigerian royal palace says 'Africa's oldest' tortoise has died at 344 years old
A tortoise whose royal owners claimed was 344 years old has died in the palace of the traditional ruler of Ogbomosho in southwest Nigeria, a spokesman said Saturday. Although animal experts doubt the tortoise could have attained such an advanced age, its royal owners say ...
Islamic State-allied jihadis execute one of six abducted aid workers in Nigeria
Jihadis aligned to Islamic State have killed one of six aid workers abducted in July in northeast Nigeria, charity group Action Against Hunger said Wednesday. The six Nigerian aid workers — one woman and five men — were seized by jihadis during an ambush on ...
African star tech startup lays off hundreds of junior developers
Major African tech start-up Andela sacked hundreds of its staff this week — the majority from Nigeria — in one of the largest layoffs in the continent's budding tech industry. The start-up, backed by hundreds of millions of dollars from investors including Facebook and tennis ...
South Africa vows crackdown on xenophobic attacks after five people are killed
Five people have been killed in a surge of xenophobic violence in South Africa, police said on Tuesday, as President Cyril Ramaphosa vowed to clamp down and the African Union, Nigeria and Zambia condemned the attacks. Hordes of people — some armed with axes and ...
Xenophobic attacks shame South Africa as regional leaders meet
South Africa has been hit by an outbreak of xenophobic violence in its biggest city, attracting criticism from other African nations in the week political and business leaders from at least 28 countries gather in Cape Town. A spate of violence that broke out in ...
Former NBA forward Ike Diogu joins Susanoo Magic
Nigeria national team captain Ike Diogu, a well-traveled former NBA player, will begin the next chapter of his pro career with the Shimane Susanoo Magic. The announcement, made on Monday by the B. League first-division squad, came a couple weeks before the FIBA World Cup ...
Death toll in Nigeria Boko Haram attack on funeral up to 65, official says
An attack this weekend by Boko Haram fighters on a funeral in northeast Nigeria has left 65 people dead, almost triple the initial toll, a local official said Sunday. Dozens more bodies were discovered following the assault Saturday by gunmen on a village close to ...
NGO demands release of Nigeria aid workers kidnapped by Islamic State-linked jihadis
Charity group Action Against Hunger on Thursday demanded the release of six aid workers kidnapped in northeast Nigeria and held by jihadis aligned to the Islamic State group. The Paris-based charity said a staff member, two drivers and three health workers for one of its ...
Odion Ighalo insisted on Tuesday that team success is far more important than personal accolades with his goals the driving Nigeria's run to the quarterfinals in Egypt. The China-based forward finished as the leading scorer in qualifying for this year's Africa Cup of Nations, and ...
