A Nigerian court on Friday remanded former central bank governor Godwin Emefiele in custody on charges of procurement fraud, pending a bail hearing scheduled for Wednesday.Emefiele applied f… Read More

Nigeria's naira briefly slumped to a record low against the dollar in thin trading on the official market on Thursday, bringing the official exchange rate within touching distance of the par… Read More

 Tributes are pouring in for popular Nigerian rapper Oladips, following his death at the age of 28."We are still in shock as we speak," his management said in an Instagram post.The caus… Read More

Nigeria's labor unions have begun an indefinite strike to protest the beating of Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) president Joe Ajaero on November 1. The labor leader was to lead workers in pr… Read More

Nigerian inflation quickened to a new 18-year high in October as higher input costs and a weaker naira sent food and goods prices soaring, adding pressure on the central bank to raise intere… Read More

ABUJA, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Nigeria's central bank said on Tuesday old bank notes that were due to be removed from circulation next month would now remain legal tender, ending months of uncert… Read More

At least seven people are reported to have been killed and several others kidnapped by suspected armed bandits in Zamfara state.CGTNRelated stories: Video - Gunmen kidnap more than 30 peop… Read More

KANO, NigeriaAt least 20 fishermen died after their boat capsized Monday in the Anyiin area of River Benue in northeastern Nigeria’s Taraba state.Taraba Governor Agbu Kefas confirmed t… Read More

Sports experts in Nigeria have called on the government to invest more in Judo. They say there is immense talent in the country to make a real impact at international level but poor fundin… Read More

Nigeria will boost incentives for foreign investors in an attempt to address a decline in capital coming into the country as part of the government’s plans to revive the economy. The… Read More

Google has rolled out its Search Generative Experience (SGE) in the sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region as an opt-in experiment in Search Labs, powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI-powered) ex… Read More

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has signed into law a $2.8 billion supplementary budget that includes funding for new bulletproof cars for himself and his wife, despite widespread criticism f… Read More

The China International Import Expo continues in Shanghai. Organizers say it's an opportunity for global companies to tap into the burgeoning Chinese market. However, industry experts in N… Read More

At least 15 rice farmers were killed and several others feared abducted in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state after suspected Boko Haram insurgents attacked three villages, a local farmers'… Read More

Nigeria's opposition Labour Party leader Peter Obi on Monday criticised the Supreme Court's ruling affirming President Bola Tinubu's victory in February's elections and vowed to continue to… Read More

An explosion at the Canadian High Commission in Nigeria's capital of Abuja killed two people and sent another two to hospital, according to the fire service that responded to the call. "A ta… Read More

In an attempt to diversify Nigeria’s economy away from oil, the government wants to position the country to reap the gains from shrimp exports. However, local fishermen and experts s… Read More

Nigeria's lower chamber of parliament has rejected the government's plan to buy a presidential yacht for $6m (£5m), a senior lawmaker has said.Nigerians had criticised the plan as a wa… Read More

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s first supplementary budget includes a fleet of SUVs for himself and his wife, a presidential yacht and the renovation of his villa amid a cost-of-livin… Read More

A top official in north-eastern Nigeria says Islamic militant groups, such as Boko Haram, are trying to recruit new members from the internally displaced persons who live in the camps.CGTN… Read More

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Extremists in northeastern Nigeria killed at least 37 villagers in two different attacks, residents said Wednesday, highlighting once again how deadly islamic… Read More

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday asked the Senate to approve nearly $8 billion in new debt as part of a 2022-24 external borrowing plan to finance infrastructure, health, educatio… Read More

At least 17 bodies have been recovered after a passenger boat capsized in Nigeria's eastern state of Taraba on Saturday.CGTNRelated story: Over 70 people missing after latest deadly boat a… Read More

Rice farmers say the decision will hurt profits and negatively impact their livelihoods.CGTN Read More

Jihadists affiliated to the Islamic State group killed 17 people in a raid on a remote village in northeast Nigeria after villagers refused to pay an illicit tax, anti-jihadist militia and a… Read More

Germany looking to buy natural gas from Nigeria. The move is part of Germany's efforts to diversify its energy supplies.CGTN Read More

Economic experts foresee a boost for Nigeria as China invests fresh funds in two crucial railway projects. Analysts believe the continuation of the projects that are part of the Belt and R… Read More

More than 70 people were missing on Monday after a boat capsized in northern Nigeria, according to authorities who deplored the frequent deadly boat accidents in Africa's most populous count… Read More

Nigeria's main opposition leader Atiku Abubakar said on Monday last week's Supreme Court decision affirming President Bola Tinubu's election win would erode trust in elections and called for… Read More

Nigerians are being pinched by rising food prices where it hurts the most: Rice, the main ingredient for making jollof, a popular delicacy in many Nigerian homes, jumped 61% in September. A… Read More

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Sunday his country was willing to invest in gas and critical minerals in Nigeria, Africa's largest oil producer, as he started a two-nation visit to sub… Read More

The West African country is showing signs of winning its battle against wildlife trafficking. Authorities have seized and burned a huge collection of illegal wildlife products, including p… Read More

ABUJA, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Nigeria's Supreme Court on Thursday upheld President Bola Tinubu's election win, bringing to an end a legal challenge brought by his two main rivals, who argued tha… Read More

Nigeria's Supreme Court will rule on Thursday whether to uphold President Bola Tinubu's disputed election victory, a court notice showed on Wednesday, after two of his main contenders challe… Read More

A three-day festival, commemorating the shipment of people captured from West Africa hundreds of years ago and forced to work as slaves in America and the Caribbean, came to a close in Nig… Read More

On Saturday, October 21, 76 people, including 59 men and 17 women, were arrested in northern Nigeria for attending an alleged LGBTQ+ birthday party where organisers were suspected of plannin… Read More

Lagos, Nigeria — At about 7pm on August 1, when Vwaere Daiso exited her room on the ninth floor of the 10-storey residence for doctors at the Lagos hospital where she worked to retriev… Read More

Nigeria on Monday hailed a landmark victory after it won its bid to overturn an $11 billion damages bill for a collapsed gas project, in a case a judge at London's High Court said exemplifie… Read More

Nigeria expects $10 billion in foreign currency inflows in the next few weeks to ease liquidity in a foreign exchange market that has cramped growth in Africa's biggest economy, finance mini… Read More

The Nigerian government says the launch of the initiative will cushion millions of people against the effects of the removal of the petrol subsidy and other economic shocks.CGTN Read More

Nigeria plans to inject 34 billion U.S. dollars into the economy in 2024, a substantial increase from the 25 billion U.S. dollars in the 2023 budget. Experts link the increase to efforts t… Read More

Nigeria is facing a tax administration challenge characterized by corruption and disorganization within the tax collection system. Authorities say there's a significant shortfall between t… Read More

A Nigerian action thriller that tells a gripping story of corruption and police brutality in Africa’s most populous country has reached record viewership numbers on Netflix charts glo… Read More

China's President Xi Jinping pledged on Thursday for his country to increase investments in Nigeria's power generation sector and its digital economy, the Nigerian vice president's office sa… Read More

China's Belt and Road Initiative in Nigeria has been yielding a number of landmark infrastructure projects. Nigeria and China have a longstanding bilateral relation, which received a furth… Read More

At least 50 people, including women and children, were abducted and three others were killed in an attack by gunmen in Bagega, a mining village in Nigeria's northwest Zamfara state, resident… Read More

Nigeria is toughening up licensing rules for foreign mining companies to push them to boost processing and refining of metals like lithium and zinc within the country, its minister of mines… Read More

The Federal Government has announced that President Bola Tinubu will launch the new cash transfer program to 15 million households across Nigeria on Tuesday, October 17.Nigerian Presidency m… Read More

Nigeria’s naira plunged the most in almost four months to an unprecedented level in the official market as the West African nation’s move to a more flexible exchange rate puts pr… Read More

Five men have been jailed for 12 years each in Nigeria after they were convicted of exhuming a human skull.They had planned to take it to a traditional doctor who said it was needed for ritu… Read More

Nigeria’s cabinet approved plans by the government to seek a $1.5 billion loan from the World Bank, Finance Minister Wale Edun said.The funding will be concessionary and is expected to… Read More

Nigeria has selected Sundance Festival award-winning film, “Mami Wata” as its contender for the 96th Academy Awards’ International Feature Film (IFF) category.Written and… Read More

Nigeria’s government is seeking a $1.5 billion loan from the World Bank to help fund its budget, Finance Minister Wale Edun said, as the International Monetary Fund welcomed recent gov… Read More

Nigeria's president nominated a lawyer to head its anti-graft agency after President Bola Tinubu suspended the previous chief amid corruption allegations, his spokesperson said on Thursday.T… Read More

Nigeria has temporarily halted all pilgrimages to Israel. This move follows a surge in deadly hostilities over the weekend, disrupting the plans of eager Easter pilgrims.Originally scheduled… Read More

More than 600 people, mostly children, have died of diphtheria in Nigeria since the current outbreak began in December 2022, officials say.With 14,000 suspected cases, this outbreak is far w… Read More

Gunmen in Nigeria kidnapped four people from a house in the university town of Keffi, in central Nasarawa state, police said on Tuesday.Kidnapping for ransom is rife in Nigeria, but attacks… Read More

There is no evidence that the diploma Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu submitted to the country's electoral commission was forged, the BBC's Global Disinformation Team has found.Allegat… Read More

A Nigerian court sentenced Monday a police officer to death for shooting and killing a lawyer in the commercial hub of Lagos. Many applauded the rare sentence as a punitive measure against r… Read More

Nigeria's national oil firm NNPC Ltd has again become the sole importer of petrol because local private firms are unable to obtain foreign currency, its chief executive said on Monday, four… Read More

Nigeria has sounded the alarm over an increasing number of crude oil thefts. Africa's largest crude producer struggles to meet its 1.8-million-barrels-per-day quota set by the Organization… Read More

Unidentified gunmen kidnapped five female university students in the northwestern state of Katsina, Nigeria on Wednesday. The incident occurred in the early hours at the Federal University… Read More

Nigeria’s main opposition said Thursday it will present new evidence to support its court challenge seeking to overturn this year's presidential election, saying it can show the declar… Read More

The Head of Information and Public Affair at the Nigeria Labour Congress Benson Upah expounds on the main elements in the agreement between Nigerian government and the labour union followi… Read More

The planned nationwide strike was averted after intense negotiations between labour unions and the government. The unions halted the strike action for 30 days, after the government agreed… Read More

Gunmen in Nigeria kidnapped five female students from a university in the northwestern Katsina state on Wednesday, the police said, the second such abduction involving students in the region… Read More

Nearly 40 people are missing and presumed to have drowned in Nigeria after a passenger boat capsized in strong currents, according to a local official. The Monday accident took place in th… Read More

At least 18 people, including a pregnant woman, have died in southern Nigeria when an illegal oil refinery exploded into flames, a security official and residents said.The blaze took place e… Read More

The tanker overturned along the Sapele-Benin road on Sunday night causing a spillage. It's understood that locals, mostly young people, flocked to the scene to fill containers with the spi… Read More

Nigeria's biggest labour federations on Monday said they were suspending an indefinite strike that was set to begin on Tuesday after last minute talks with President Bola Tinubu's government… Read More

Nigerian economist Idris Shuiab says the proposal to lift the country's tax take to 18% of gross domestic product within three years from 11% currently is an uphill task but not an impossi… Read More

Nigeria on Sunday announced a temporary wage increase for government workers, a three-month income subsidy for 15 million poor households and a pause in a value-added tax on diesel as the go… Read More

The Nigerian currency Naira weakened to record low against the U.S. dollar this week, falling to 1,000 Naira per dollar on the parallel market, 29 percent weaker than the official rate of… Read More

British and Nigerian civil society groups have urged the British government to return funds confiscated from Nigerian politician James Ibori, a convicted fraudster, to his country in a swift… Read More

One of Nigeria's main oil and gas unions will join a nationwide strike starting on Oct. 3 to protest against government policies that are causing economic hardship for Nigerians, union leade… Read More

Nigeria's new central bank Governor Olayemi Cardoso said on Tuesday his top priority was to clear the bank's backlog of unsettled foreign exchange obligations to local lenders, which he esti… Read More

Fish farming is a costly enterprise and is struggling to plug the deficit to meet Nigeria’s needs. Experts say the high cost of mostly-imported fish food, the quality of fish being f… Read More

Nigeria's two biggest workers' unions plan to start an indefinite strike next week to protest against a cost-of-living crisis after the government scrapped a popular but costly petrol subsid… Read More

Security forces have rescued 14 of at least 20 students abducted from a university in northwestern Nigeria and are searching for the remaining captives, school authorities say.Gunmen attacke… Read More

According to the regional governor’s spokesperson, 24 students, ten workers and a security guard were seized in the early hours of Friday from the Federal University of Gusau in Nige… Read More

Gunmen in Nigeria killed eight people on Sunday and abducted at least 60 others in two communities of northwest Zamfara state, residents and a local traditional leader said, two days after a… Read More

In August, Nigeria’s earnings from the export of crude oil grew by 188.7 billion naira (245 million U.S. dollars) due to an increase in the production of the commodity by foreign and… Read More

Rising inflation in Nigeria is reported to be pushing up the prices of building materials and housing. According to data from Nigeria's Bureau of Statistics, inflation jumped to an 18-year… Read More

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu urged the United Nations to become more proactive in addressing his African nation's poverty and security issues and helping to fight illicit resource extracti… Read More

A former Nigerian civil servant could receive a portion of an enormous sum of damages if a British court rules against the West African nation, in a landmark case centred on a multi-billion… Read More

Nigeria’s finance minister Adebayo Olawale Edun said up to $6.8 billion of overdue forward payments in the foreign exchange market need to be addressed before the naira stabilizes.The… Read More

Newspapers that once delivered news big and small are invaluable windows into our past. They risk being lost forever if not properly preserved and archived. Meenakshi Ravi reports on a pro… Read More

Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, addresses the general debate of the 78th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations (New York, 19 - 26 September… Read More

Nigeria's naira fell to a record low on the black market on Wednesday, driven mostly by speculative demand as individuals turn to the dollar as a store of value, traders said.The unit was qu… Read More

Nigeria's northern Kano state declared a 24-hour curfew on Wednesday after a tribunal overturned the election of an opposition candidate as governor and declared a member of President Bola T… Read More

A remarkable concert in Abuja saw the convergence of young music lovers and climate activists determined to use the universal language of music to amplify their message about the dangers o… Read More

Nigeria is poised to revolutionize the aviation industry across the African continent, igniting monumental development that promises to be a catalyst for economic growth. The stage for thi… Read More

Cryptocurrency usage is growing in Nigeria as Africa's largest economy grapples with a weakening currency and soaring inflation, New York-based blockchain research firm Chainalysis said in a… Read More

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu said on Tuesday he was seeking to re-establish constitutional order to address political and economic problems in neighboring Niger following a July coup and w… Read More

Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu held talks with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in New York, seeking to advance economic cooperation between the two largest economies in Africa, his… Read More

U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo on Monday urged Nigeria to work to stabilize its currency and fight corruption to unlock what he called the "unrealized opportunity" of Africa's… Read More

Nigeria's electricity distribution companies reported "a total system collapse" on Thursday after a fire on a major transmission line, causing widespread blackouts across Africa's biggest ec… Read More

Nigeria defender Ashleigh Plumptre said she has joined Saudi Women's Premier League side Al-Ittihad following the expiry of her contract at Leicester City.The 25-year-old centre back has 15… Read More

Nigerians were on Thursday morning thrown into darkness after the national grid system collapsed.The system is operated by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) from Osogbo, Osun State.S… Read More

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has applauded Nigeria‘s effort in fighting malaria, saying malaria deaths fell by 55 percent from 2.1 per 1000 population to 0.9 per 1000 population… Read More