While the Nigerian government criticises South Africa’s handling of recent xenophobic attacks on Nigerians, the South African Government has deported 97 Nigerians for committing variou… Read More

Authorities in Nigeria have rescued 41 girls from human trafficking. They were being smuggled through Mali to Europe. The teenagers returned to Nigeria on Monday night. Authorities say they… Read More

But those talks with African Ambassadors have done little to assuage angry Nigerians. The National Association of Nigerian Students say they will begin expelling South African nationals and… Read More

Nigerian security forces have freed two German archaeologists kidnapped by gunmen at a remote dig site.The two academics were at the German embassy in Abuja on Sunday, and were doing well co… Read More

In an effort to crush Boko Haram, the United States has pledged to continue to provide security assistance to the West African country. Thomas Waldhauser, the head of the U.S Africa Command… Read More

A series of xenophobic attacks on foreigners in South Africa have provoked an angry response in Nigeria, where protesters ransacked the offices of a South African telecoms giant Thursday.A s… Read More

Nigeria's government is calling on the African Union to urgently intervene in the xenophobic attacks in South Africa. President Muhammadu Buhari's foreign affairs advisor maintains South Afr… Read More

In Nigeria, several companies ranging from banks to airlines have been saved from total collapse by the state-owned Assets Management Company -- AMCON. The latest firm AMCON has taken over i… Read More

Nigeria's central bank will sell $500 million to help improve dollar liquidity a day after the bank effectively devalued the naira for retail currency sales. Nigeria has been running short o… Read More

The Nigerian Football Federation has joined the Southern African federations in endorsing Madagascar's Ahmad Ahmad for the post of CAF President in next month's elections. African football w… Read More

Feb 21 Nigeria's Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has launched a 60-day action plan to improve the business climate in Africa's biggest economy struggling with recession, his office said on Tues… Read More

In Nigeria, thousands of residents of a slum in Lagos are counting their losses after a fire swept through the area on Sunday. Although many homes have been burnt to the ground, no casualtie… Read More

The Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, has clarified the $50-$100 billion said to have been lost to the attacks of oil and gas infrastructure by the Niger Delta militants.In… Read More

Jollof Rice is one of the most common dishes in Nigeria. It's also not alien to the west African region. It's one delicacy which caterers and chefs in Nigeria cannot afford to miss out - sho… Read More

The United Nations says around 20 million globally are in need of food assistance. World Food Programme economist Arif Husain says that even though humanitarian aid is at a record high, dema… Read More

Nigeria's environmental ministry has declared an air pollution emergency in the southern city of Port Harcourt. For months the oil-rich city has been engulfed in thick black soot, thought to… Read More

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has tweeted for the first time since he travelled to the United Kingdom for medical treatment. The contact has gone a long way to reassure Nigerians about… Read More

New figures have emerged on the total number of people killed by Boko Haram during the group's eight-year insurgency. The governor of Borno State says the death toll could be as high as a-hu… Read More

Alhaji Aliko Dangote, President of Dangote Groups of Companies, says Nigerians consume over 6.5 million tonnes of rice annually, less than half of which is produced locally. Dangote stated t… Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump has promised enhanced military support to Nigeria. The pledge was made during a phone call with President Muhammadu Buhari. The U.S. President also spoke to South… Read More

Oil refineries in Nigeria's southern city of Port Harcourt pose a serious threat to the environment. The city has been engulfed in black soot and residents are beginning to worry about the h… Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump has promised to “cut a new deal” to sell more weapons to Nigeria to fight the extremist Boko Haram militia, a Nigerian spokesman says.The promise came… Read More

Nigeria's government has announced the recovery of more than $160 million dollars in stolen state funds in less than two months as part of an anti-graft drive. Government officials say the m… Read More

Boko Haram is reportedly struggling to survive. The United Nations maintains the group is broke and facing an internal split. CGTN's Kelechi Emekalam has more on what a financial crisis coul… Read More

Plans are in top gear by the Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS) to get the European Union EU lift its ban on exportation of beans from Nigeria to its member countries.The Coordin… Read More

Two Nigerian soldiers have been arrested and charged with assault after they were filmed beating a disabled man with sticks in a busy street.The army said the reason for the assault, in Oni… Read More

The Federal Government, yesterday, said that it had issued the $1 billion Eurobond with 800 per cent over-subscription, as foreign investors demanded for $7.8 billion, reflecting investors&l&hell…Read More

With a love for shoes and the goal to create a manufacturing sector for quality footwear in Nigeria, entrepreneur Babajide Ipaye created Keexs - an Africa-inspired brand with a social brief… Read More

The destructive Boko Haram group is currently plagued by financial difficulties, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Jeffrey Feltman, has said.According to the News Agency… Read More

On paper, Nigeria is an investors dream, with vast tracts of arable land, strong and growing demand for processed agricultural goods, a fast-growing population, and many others. But the real… Read More

Nigeria will stop importing refined petroleum products by 2019, Ibe Kachikwu, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, said on Tuesday in Abuja.Mr. Kachikwu said this at a public heari… Read More

In Nigeria, rising non-performing loans and an imminent fall in the naira's value have put banks in a precarious position. They need to raise fresh capital amid a distressed economy. Checks… Read More

World football’s governing body FIFA on Tuesday said it had extended a ban on five officials who have been involved in a leadership battle for control of the game in Nigeria.FIFA said… Read More

MTN has become the official Nigerian mobile telecommunications partner for English top-tier soccer team Arsenal.Fans of the Premier League club in Nigeria will have access to a range of excl… Read More

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the parliament to extend his medical leave in the UK, amid concerns that his health may be worse than officials are publicly saying.The 74-year… Read More

In Nigeria, the road safety body is mandating all commercial vehicles be fitted with a speed governing device. The country boasts some of the more modernized roads in Africa, but also regist… Read More

Gunmen have attacked a United Nations monitoring team at the Nigeria-Cameroon border, killing five people.Three Nigerians were among those killed, a UN statement said Wednesday.“Accord… Read More

The Nigeria Army general court martial sitting in Maiduguri, Borno State, on Wednesday sentenced a soldier to seven years in prison for shooting and killing an unarmed civilian two years ago… Read More

Readers and writers from across the continent have been paying tribute to Nigerian author Buchi Emecheta, who died at the age of 72. Her books covered themes that championed the rights of gi… Read More

Nigeria's Monetary Policy Committee has left its benchmark borrowing rate at 14%. The rate is being blamed for paralyzing businesses in Nigeria's recession-hit economy Read More

Nigeria's government has announced a planned six- week closure of its main airport serving the capital city Abuja. Now, the country's society of engineers is leading a campaign to keep the a… Read More

Harnessing the demographic dividend through investments in the youth is the theme at the ongoing African union summit in Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. But what are things looking like for y… Read More

Two Toronto sisters accused of attempting to blackmail a Nigerian billionaire with claims he cheated on his wife have failed to show up for a court hearing, according to local media reports… Read More

Royal Dutch Shell has won a victory before London's High Court in a case brought by Nigerian farmers and fishermen who claimed their lands were polluted by the company's actions.Shell had ar… Read More

A rights group in Nigeria is trying to end the practice of killing twins, especially in the southern parts of the country. The tradition dates back many years, stemming from a belief that tw… Read More

Islamist terror groups in Nigeria are now using female suicide bombers with babies to avoid detection before carrying out their attacks, officials have warned.Two women carrying babies blew… Read More

Nigeria's central bank is rallying commercial lenders against virtual markets to fight money laundering and terror financing.Virtual or digital currency is just emerging in Nigeria. But it's… Read More

New data from Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics suggests Nigerian prisons may hold more innocents than guilty criminals. The report, covering data from 2011 to 2015, shows that 7… Read More

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, has urged International Oil Companies (IOCs) to invest in building refineries in Nigeria.Kachikwu made the call in Rome in a p… Read More

The number of people mistakenly killed last week in an air attack on a camp for those who have fled conflict in north-east Nigeria has risen to 115, an official has told the BBC.Camp residen… Read More

Police in Nigeria on Sunday said they had arrested 65 people at a demonstration of support for US President Donald Trump organised by pro-independence activists in the country's south.The ra… Read More

Nigerian authorities should conduct a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation into the January 17, 2017 airstrikes that hit a settlement for displaced people who had fled Boko Haram, k… Read More

A Nigerian Air Force fighter jet on a mission against Boko Haram extremists mistakenly bombed a refugee camp Tuesday, killing dozens of people.Military commander Maj.-Gen. Lucky Irabor conf… Read More

At least four people were killed and 15 others injured in a suicide bomb attack on a university campus in northeast Nigeria, police said Read More

Gunmen who kidnapped eight people from a school in south-western Nigeria last week have issued a ransom demand. They want more than three hundred thousand dollars Read More

Bitcoin adoption in Africa was being spearheaded by South Africa, Kenya, and Ghana, until recently. In fact, the year 2016 witnessed the upward improvement of Bitcoin penetration in the Fede… Read More

A professor at the University of Maiduguri and a child were killed and 17 people wounded on Monday in a twin suicide bombing in the city in Nigeria's northeast, officials said.State emergenc… Read More

People in Nigeria's northern part of the country are gradually rebuilding their lives, after attacks by Boko Haram two years ago left their homes destroyed and infrastructure ruined. Uche Ok… Read More

Nigeria's lower house has voted to offer Gambian President Yahya Jammeh asylum if he steps down, according to Gambian MPs.The House of Representatives approved a motion on Thursday for Presi… Read More

Nigeria's National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers called off its three-day nationwide warning strike on Wednesday at a meeting with Nigeria's Minister of Labour and Employment. T… Read More

China is investing additional $40 billion in Nigerian economy, its Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr Wang Yi, said on Wednesday at a bilateral meeting with his Nigerian counterpart, Mr Geoffrey O… Read More

A thousand days have now elapsed since several schoolgirls were taken captive from Chibok in the North East of the Country. Activists continue a series of campaigns to push the government to… Read More

Chibok, Nigeria/DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nigeria is facing mounting pressure to find some 200 schoolgirls abducted 1,000 days ago in Boko Haram's most infamous attack after the r… Read More

The President Muhammadu Buhari led government has sacked four heads of agencies and colleges in Nigeria’s aviation industry, a government statement said.This is contained in a statemen… Read More

Sunday marks 1,000 days since the mass kidnapping of schoolgirls in Chibok in northeast Nigeria.A total of 276 girls were taken on the night of 14 April 2014, and nearly 200 are still in cap… Read More

Two separate attacks by suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers - one by a female duo, the other by three men - have killed three people in northeast Nigeria, police said on Monday. All the att… Read More

Ongoing interrogation of Boko Haram suspects have bourn fruits as one of the Chibok Girls captured --has been found. The Nigerian military confirmed this on Thursday. Rakiya Abubakar and her… Read More

Midfielder John Mikel Obi has left Chelsea to join Chinese Super League side Tianjin TEDA.The 29-year-old Nigerian has played 372 times for Chelsea since joining in 2006 but has not featured… Read More

Soldiers interrogating captured Boko Haram suspects have found one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by the extremist group nearly three years ago, along with her baby, Nigeria’s mil… Read More

A Nigerian official has said the airport in the capital city of Abuja will close for six weeks beginning in March to repair its “dilapidated” and “unsafe” runway.The… Read More

As part of its efforts to improve the lives of Nigerians, President Buhari's administration has started providing 15 dollar monthly stipends to some of the country's poorest and most vulnera… Read More

Three girl suicide bombers targeting a bustling market in northeastern Nigeria were gunned down Wednesday, civilian and military officials said. They blamed the Boko Haram Islamic extremist… Read More

What are Nigerian authorities doing to rebuild the north-eastern part of the country after the Boko Haram insurgency? CGTN's Kelechi Emekalam sat down with Nigerian presidential spokesperson… Read More

A video shared by vice president Yemi Osinbajo on his social media account showing some past leaders of Nigeria singing hymns for the deliverance of the country from its multiple challenges… Read More

Imagine getting a loan from a bank without the usual collateral, within just 72 hours of applying. It may sound impossible -- especially in a country like Nigeria, where securing credit is a… Read More

Lab tests on a consignment of rice seized by Nigerian customs officials show that the product is "contaminated" but not plastic, the National Agency For Food and Drugs (Nafdac) says.The rice… Read More

Nigeria has removed 50,000 ghost workers from its public payroll over the past 11 months. Essentially, people who don't exist have been receiving salaries. Authorities say it's part of a sch… Read More

In a bizarre video posted to YouTube on Thursday, the two Toronto sisters detained in a sex scandal in Nigeria appear to have issued an apology.“We apologize to Femi Otedola and his fa… Read More

Hundreds of Boko Haram prisoners have been freed during an army offensive in northern Nigeria. President Muhammadu Buhari says Boko Haram has been defeated in its war for an Islamic state.Fi… Read More

Niger delta militants are have been attacking oil pipelines in Nigeria have formally agreed to hold talks with the government. President Muhammadu Buhari's earlier this year appealed to the… Read More

Two sisters in Nigeria with ties to Toronto have been released on bail after being detained for allegedly attempting to blackmail a billionaire with claims he cheated on his wife.According t… Read More

After the Nigerian army claimed victory over Boko Haram in the armed group's forest stronghold, a commander at the forefront of the battle says the search is still on for the missing Chibok… Read More

Former Nigerian coach Sunday oliseh has cautioned Gabon against solely relying on Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang at the African cup of nations. The former super eagles player also says Nigeria wi… Read More

Nigeria's military is set to turn the Sambisa forest, a former bastion of militant Islamist group Boko Haram, into a training centre for its troops. The new base will also be used as ground… Read More

Telecommunications giant, MTN Nigeria has paid $254 million of the $1 billion fine imposed on it for failing to deactivate more than five million unregistered sim cards in Nigeria.Nigeria&rs&hell…Read More

Two sisters from Toronto with a substantial Instagram following have been detained in Lagos, Nigeria, reportedly to face allegations that they tried to extort and cyber-bully a Nigerian bill… Read More

Nigeria plans banning black market trading to protect its currency, the naira from further depreciation. The Nigerian unit touched a 492 per dollar low last week, as the difference between t… Read More

Nigerian president says fighters "on the run" after army seizes their "last enclave of Sambisa Forest" in Borno state Read More

In Nigeria rising inflation and dwindling income is dampening the festive mood to many. Nigeria is struggling to lift itself from the worst recession in decades and many can't find enough mo… Read More

The Olympic Games were not just about winning medals, some athletes like Aruna Quadri made history by breaking new ground in Table Tennis Read More

Nigeria's Central Bank will hold a special foreign exchange auction to clear a backlog of outstanding dollar demand for selected sectors. It has asked commercial lenders to submit the backlo… Read More

Nigeria's government has denied reports that "plastic rice" was being sold in the country, days after the customs service said 2.5 tonnes of the contraband had been confiscated.Health Minist… Read More

An investigation into the origins and ideology of the rebel group and its bloody rise Read More

Nigeria says it will close the main airport in the capital Abuja, in order to carry out a major upgrade.The airport will be closed for six weeks, starting in February 2017.The announcement c… Read More

Some Nigerians on Thursday expressed displeasure with the celebration of the release of James Ibori, a former Delta Governor, from a prison in London. They said in Lagos that such celebratio… Read More

The UN High commissioner for refugees wants aid intervention to North-east Nigeria to incorporate long term development aid. Filipo Grandi's comment follows first hand assessment of the huma… Read More

Former governor of Delta State, Chief James Onanefe Ibori has been released from prison. He was released a few minutes past noon upon a court order. His media aide, Mr. Tony Elumenor… Read More

Nigeria has confiscated 102 bags of "plastic rice" smuggled into the country by unscrupulous businessmen, the customs service says.Lagos customs chief Haruna Mamudu said the fake rice was in… Read More

Nigeria's Bama town in Borno State, has been left in ruins after the military managed to reclaim the town from Boko Haram militants. Borno State has been at the epicentre of Boko Haram's sev… Read More

Nigeria's state owned NNPC has signed a deal to exit the long standing joint venture agreement with international oil companies in a move seen to maximize benefits from the oil industry.Petr… Read More