ECOWAS imposed heavy economic sanctions in the wake of the coups, fraying diplomatic ties and forcing the juntas to look for new routes to transport goods in and out of the landlocked states.

A jihadist suicide attack kills 27 Nigerian soldiers, including the commander, in the Timbuktu Triangle, as ISWAP militants ...

Nasiru Isyaka and his gang had invaded Sabon-Gari Mangu Matachibu village, killed a person and kidnapped two others ...

Troops of 6 Division, Nigerian Army have recovered 30,000 litres of stolen petroleum products and destroyed 13 illegal refineries in the Niger Delta region. The troops also arrested 15 suspected oil ...

Nigerian officials say at least 18 people have died and 10 others were injured in the country's south after a gasoline tanker exploded.

Mohammed Bago, Niger State govNiger State, Nigeria’s largest state by landmass, is a region bless­ed with immense natural and agricultural resources. With over 76,000 square kilometres of land, of ...

Nigeria's authorities have officially declared the Lakurawa armed group - which flogs people for listening to music - a ...

The death toll of an explosion from a crashed gasoline tanker in central Nigeria over the weekend has risen to 98, after ...

The late Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner mercenary force has been accused of plotting attacks against Western ...

Culture is the total way of life of a people as it manifests in their cuisine, dress, belief, world view, language, leisure, ...

President Bola Tinubu’s energy sector reforms are prompting oil companies to take a second look at Nigeria, argues his ...

Nigerian environmentalists on Tuesday condemned a government plan to resume oil production in the restive Ogoniland, ...