Fifty years on, Nigeria struggles with memory of Biafra civil war
Diekoye Oyeyinka, 33, has been billed as one of the most promising Nigerian writers of his generation. He went to some of the finest schools in his West African homeland but says that, like the majority of his classmates, he "didn't know about Biafra until ...
U.S. slaps sanctions over firms exploiting North Korean overseas workers
The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on two companies for exploiting North Korean overseas labor after a U.N. deadline to return workers who bring vital revenue to the regime. The sanctions — which block any US assets of the companies and criminalize any financial ...
A wave of sub-Saharan African countries became independent in the 1960s, 17 achieving self-rule from colonial Belgium, Britain and France in 1960 alone. Portugal's colonies would only break free in the 1970s and it took other nations, such as Eritrea, even longer to re-establish their ...
Islamic State beheads Christians in Nigeria to avenge death of leader
The Islamic State group has released a video purporting to show its militants beheading 10 Christian men in Nigeria, saying it was part of a campaign to avenge the deaths of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and its spokesman. The militant group posted the footage ...
Pollution-linked deaths greatest in India, China and Nigeria, study says
India leads the world in pollution-linked deaths, followed by China and Nigeria, according to a report published Wednesday that estimated the global impact of contaminants in the air, water and workplace. The report, by the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution, found pollution to be ...
Boko Haram jihadis kill 14 in attack on western Chad village
Fourteen people were killed and 13 were missing after Boko Haram jihadis attacked a fishing village in western Chad on Tuesday, government officials said. Violence from the Boko Haram insurgency started in Nigeria a decade ago, but has since spread to neighboring countries Chad, Niger ...
An armed group that kidnapped humanitarian workers in northeastern Nigeria five months ago has claimed it killed four hostages, international aid agency Action Against Hunger said on Friday. Six people were abducted in July near the town of Damasak, in the state of Borno, where ...
Pirates board supertanker off Nigeria and kidnap 19 crew members
Pirates boarded a fully loaded supertanker off the coast of Nigeria, an act that is sure to ring alarm bells for insurers about the risk of collecting oil from Africa's biggest producer. Nineteen crew were kidnapped and remain missing, a spokeswoman for Navios, the ship's ...
Nigeria's army on Wednesday released nearly 1,000 detainees, some of whom had been held for years, after clearing them of having links to the Boko Haram jihadi group. A total of 983 people incarcerated in a military facility in the northeast city of Maiduguri were ...
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 ...
