Nigeria's government says it is looking to increase electricity generation to 12,000 Megawatts in the shortest time possible. Inadequate power is a major stumbling block in the government's… Read More

A Nigerian woman has described being kidnapped and drugged by suspected Boko Haram jihadists who planned to use her as a suicide bomber at a market.Khadija Ibrahim, 30, told reporters she ha… Read More

Nigeria's gross domestic product contracted by 0.36 percent in the first quarter of the year, as the worst crisis to grip Africa's biggest economy in decades continues to deepen. The contrac… Read More

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the umbrella body for union workers, has suspended its three-day general strike.The strike was called to protest the 70 percent increase in the price of pe… Read More

Nigeria’s employment crisis worsened in the first quarter of 2016, with unemployment rate rising to 12.1 per cent, the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, said on Friday.The bureau sai… Read More

The Nigeria oil and gas as well as the solid minerals sectors Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative NEITI audit report for 2013 has been published.The Minister of Solid Mine… Read More

Hours after Amina Ali, one of the Chibok girls rescued on Wednesday from the insurgents, met with President Muhammadu Buhari, at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, the Nigerian Army announced… Read More

A second schoolgirl from the more than 200 seized in the Nigerian town of Chibok has been found, the army says.Spokesman Col Sani Usman said Serah Luka was among 97 women and children rescue… Read More

A schoolgirl in Nigeria confirmed to be one of the 219 Chibok girls met the President on Thursday. The girl identified as Amina Ali Darsha Nkeki was picked up on Wednesday in remote northeas… Read More

As global air pollution levels rise, Nigeria appears to be the country most affected by the phenomenon.New data from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows four of Nigeria’s cities… Read More

A Nigerian union defied a court ban and proceeded with a general strike on Wednesday protesting against hefty hikes in fuel prices. Many businesses and government offices however opened as u… Read More

Nigeria's army has found one of the schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram in the northeast of the country over two years ago Read More

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Nigeria’s labour court has barred workers unions from striking against soaring fuel prices. Still, citizens are bracing for country-wide protests. Nigerians are rushing to stock up on… Read More

Nigeria oil production has fallen by almost 40 percent to1.4 million barrels a day due to militants attacks in facilities in the Delta region Read More

Lawmakers in Nigeria have decided to withdraw a ‘Frivolous Petitions Bill’ widely seen as a guise to restrict freedom of expression and gag Nigerians on social media.Officially n… Read More

A Nigerian union defied a court ban to launch a general strike on Wednesday in protest at a planned hefty increase in fuel prices, though many businesses and government offices opened as nor… Read More

A summit is underway in the Nigerian capital Abuja to discuss ways to put an end to 7 years of Boko Haram violence Read More

Recently, the African Innovation Foundation, AIF announced the top 10 nominees for its landmark program, the Innovation Prize for Africa, IPA. Among the nominees are three Nigerians, one of… Read More

Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote has pledged 10m dollars to help families affected by the Boko Haram insurgency in Northern Nigeria. It is the biggest donation by a businessman towards ea… Read More

The nominees in the 28 categories of the African Movie Academy Awards, AMAA,the annual pan-African reward system for motion picture practitioners were announced Sunday, May 15, by Mr. Shaibu… Read More

Canada will contribute nearly $20 million to help eradicate polio in Nigeria, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie Marie-Claude Bibeau announced today.The polio eradicat… Read More

Nigeria’s Minister of State for Petroleum Emmanuel Kachikwu defended the government’s decision to increase the price of gasoline as averting an even larger fuel shortage and fina… Read More

Annual inflation in Nigeria quickened to a near six-year high of 13.7 percent in April, in part due to rising petrol and electricity prices, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Monday… Read More

The Nigeria Football Federation on Sunday announced that President of Federation of International Football Associations, Gianni Infantino, will visit Nigeria in June.A statement issued in Ab… Read More

The Nigerian army has arrested several suspected members of a militant group called the "Niger Delta Avengers" (NDA), thought to be behind recent attacks on oil pipelines in the south.The co… Read More

They call themselves the Niger Delta Avengers. Little is known about the new radical group that has claimed a series of pipeline bombings in Nigeria's oil-producing region this year and evad… Read More

French President Francois Hollande has hailed the efforts of his Nigerian counterpart Mohammadu Buhari in tackling the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram.Hollande together with other regiona… Read More

Nigeria's trade union federation has refused to accept the 67% rise in fuel prices the government introduced on Wednesday to ease fuel shortages. [TAKE VO] The Nigeria Labour Congress wants… Read More

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, on Sunday said the new Nigeria Civil Aviation Regulations, Nig.CARs, promulgated in December 2015, would take effect from July 1.The agency made… Read More

Less than two years after it blocked a sale of American-made attack helicopters to Nigeria from Israel because of human rights concerns, the Obama administration says it is poised to sell up… Read More

A 15-second drum roll and the title of the film, "Deceptive Heart," comes crashing onto the screen in a groovy 1970s font.Less than 10 minutes into the Nollywood movie, the heart of plot is… Read More

I know these are no easy times for the President so I will skip the details and present the facts unedited. About 1508 Nigerian citizens are dying needlessly in China detention camps and pri… Read More

The Federal Ministry of Health has asserted that laboratory investigations have shown that there was outbreak of dengue haemorrhagic fever in Nigeria and not of the feared Ebola virus as wid… Read More

At least 15 civilians have been killed in a suicide bombing by suspected Islamist militants in north-east Nigeria, officials say.Six of the attackers also died in the explosion, which took p… Read More

The High Court in Abuja, Nigeria has granted a staggering Three Million US Dollars bail, to the country's former defence Minister and his son facing money laundering charges. Bello Haliru Mo… Read More

Japan based electronics giant, Panasonic has established an assembly plant in Lagos to complement its manufacturing plant in India. In a statement, Shinichi Wakita, Managing Director of Pana… Read More

MTN Nigeria on Thursday said that it had completed the acquisition of Visafone, the only surviving Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) network in Nigeria’s telecommunications industry… Read More

The managing director of the Nigerian Film Corporation, Danjuma Dadu, on Tuesday said the National Film Institute, Jos, has received a grant of N600 million from the Tertiary Education Trust… Read More

Plenty of challenges lie ahead for Nigeria, Africa's biggest economy. CCTV spoke to ordinary Nigerians about their hopes for the New Year. Here's a sample of their responsed Read More

The Bishop of Orlu Catholic Diocese, Augustine Ukwuoma, on Friday unveiled the African tallest statue of Jesus Christ weighing 8.5 metres (28 ft) at St. Aloysius Catholic Parish, Abajah, Imo… Read More

Billions worldwide are preparing to welcome the New Year. But where in Africa should you go to party? Our correspondents across the continent have been searching for the best New Year's Eve… Read More

Nigeria's president has said he is prepared to negotiate with Boko Haram militants to secure the release of about 200 schoolgirls.Muhammadu Buhari said that if a credible Boko Haram leadersh… Read More