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 ...
13 Nigeria civilians reported killed in air raid targeting jihadis
At least 13 civilians were killed in an air raid as the military repulsed a jihadi assault in northeast Borno state, residents and a security source said Sunday. Multiple inhabitants of Gajiganna village, 50 km (30 miles) from state capital Maiduguri, told AFP a military ...
Boko Haram suspected as triple suicide bombing in northeast Nigeria kills 30
Thirty people were killed late Sunday in a triple suicide bombing in northeast Nigeria, emergency services reported, in an attack bearing the hallmarks of the Boko Haram jihadist group. Three bombers detonated their explosives outside a hall in Konduga, 38 km (24 miles) from the ...
Boko Haram gunmen kill two in Nigerian refugee camp attack, then flee
Boko Haram jihadis on Saturday killed two people and injured a dozen others in an predawn attack on a refugee camp in northeastern Borno State, aid agency and militia sources told AFP Sunday. The militants sneaked into Madu Musaha camp, in Dikwa Town at around ...
Gunmen kill British aid worker and local man and kidnap four tourists at north Nigeria resort
Two people including a British aid worker have been shot dead and four tourists abducted in an attack by armed gunmen on a holiday resort in northwestern Nigeria, police said on Sunday. Police and aid agency Mercy Corps named the dead woman as Faye Mooney. "Faye ...
Boko Haram fighters plunder Nigeria village near Chibok on kidnapping anniversary
Boko Haram militants raided a village near the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok just as locals marked the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls five years earlier, vigilantes and residents said Monday. The militants late Sunday stormed into Kwarangulum village, 16 km (10 miles) from ...
Off the coast of Nigeria's Lagos, ghost ships are a haven for crime
The two men in the motorized wooden canoe look around warily as they leave a towering shipwreck in the Lagos lagoon, with the barrels of oil on board barely concealed under rags. The rusting hulk of iron and peeling paint has been battered by the ...
Boko Haram hits Nigerian city after thousands flee military operation
Boko Haram fighters attacked the northeast Nigerian city of Damaturu for the first time since late 2014, residents said, after troops forced thousands to flee a village across the state border because of a planned military offensive. Two locals in the Yobe state capital said ...
Dozens of children trapped among scores of others in collapsed Lagos 'illegal school' building
Dozens of children were among scores of people feared trapped on Wednesday after a four-storey building collapsed in Nigeria's economic capital Lagos, rescuers told AFP, with at least four dead bodies pulled from the rubble. The children were attending an "illegal school" inside the residential ...
Nigeria vote tensions rise as counting is suspended in volatile opposition-held state
Nigeria's election authorities announced the suspension of activities in volatile opposition-held Rivers State on Sunday citing violence and threats to its staff, as tensions rise in the wake of closely watched regional elections. Counting is continuing across the country after Saturday's elections for governors in ...
Traffickers used Russia's World Cup to enslave us, say Nigerian women
Blessing Obuson thought Russia's soccer World Cup would be an opportunity to find a job and flew into Moscow from Nigeria last June on a fan ID. Instead, she found herself forced to work as a prostitute. Fan IDs allowed visa-free entry to World Cup ...
