The Lagos state governor — Babajide Sanwo-Olu — has been comfortably re-elected for the ruling party after what was expected to be a tight race against his rival from the Labou… Read More

Nigeria is among the countries around the world with the least level of obesity preparedness. This was disclosed in a recent report published by the World Obesity Federation. Stakeholders… Read More

Nigeria is continuously losing its skilled workers to foreign countries. This mass exodus is known locally as "Japa", which is a Yoruba word for run or flee. But as the most populous Afric… Read More

Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared results for 12 states so far, including the economic hub of Lagos, where incumbent governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the… Read More

 Nigeria's opposition Labour Party candidate Peter Obi has filed a court petition challenging last month's disputed presidential election, the party said, kicking off what could be a lo… Read More

Nigeria has successfully introduced new banknotes on about 10 occasions since independence in 1960. So why has the latest attempt been so controversial and traumatic? And what measures need… Read More

 Whether he was running through defenders in the NFL or studying relentlessly for medical school exams, Dr. Samkon Gado, M.D., (’05) has led a life marked by resiliency and obedie… Read More

Nigeria's inflation picked up again in February, hitting 21.91% in annual terms from 21.82% in January, the statistics agency said on Wednesday.Inflation rose in Africa's biggest economy for… Read More

Nigeria's Flying Eagles won bronze at the CAF Under-20 AFCON in Egypt having fallen in their bid to secure a record-extending eighth title when they lost 1-nil to Gambia in the semis. Howe… Read More

Nigeria’s central bank will allow old bank notes to continue as legal tender until the end of the year to comply with a court order earlier this month, according to a statement late on… Read More

The death toll in the Saturday's attack and reprisal attack has risen to about 17 including a Police officer in communities of Zangon-Kataf in the southern part of Kaduna State.LEADERSHIP ea… Read More

Nigeria’s gubernatorial elections have been pushed back to March 18 instead of March 11. The country's electoral commission says the extra time will allow officials to reconfigure an… Read More

 In 1969, with a civil war raging, global football's biggest star arrived in Benin City as part of a visit that would change Nigerian football forever.Those involved still remember the… Read More

Islamist militants have killed at least 25 people in an attack in a fishing town in Nigeria's Borno state, police and residents said on Thursday.Police commissioner Abdu Umar linked the atta… Read More

On March 1, Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Bola Tinubu of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) the winner of the 2023 presidential electio… Read More

Shell on Thursday reported a sharp fall in oil spilled as a result of sabotage in Nigeria's oil-rich Delta in 2022 reflecting closure of operations for six months in the wake of attacks.The… Read More

Nigeria has postponed Saturday’s crucial state elections as Africa’s most populous country wrangles over a presidential vote that opposition parties claim was rigged.The electora… Read More

An increasing number of young Nigerians are aspiring to become some of the best sprinters in the world. Nigerian athlete Tobi Amusan, who stunned the world to become the world’s fast… Read More

Nigeria soccer legend Augustine ‘Jay Jay’ Okocha is getting animated.A reimagining of Okocha’s childhood in Nigeria will be the basis of African streamer Showmax’s fi… Read More

A Nigerian woman who has been wanted in Italy since 2010 has been flown from Abuja back to Rome where she has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for crimes including running a prostitution… Read More

Political analyst Tunde Ajeliye says that raising revenue, tackling the oil and gas prices as well as returning the subsidy programme are key issues Nigeria's president-elect Bola Tinubu m… Read More

Labour Party leader Peter Obi, the third-placed candidate in the Nigerian presidential election, has promised to challenge the result in court. Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the governing All Progr… Read More

Nigeria’s main opposition parties want a new presidential election held. Members of the People's Democratic Party and Labour Party both say Saturday's vote count was marred with irre… Read More

A crude oil pipeline explosion killed at least one person and injured another on Friday, authorities on the scene said, while members of the affected community in Emohua said they feared man… Read More

Nigeria's opposition renewed calls for the election result to be overturned on Thursday, a day after the country announced its new president-elect.“We won the election and we will prov… Read More

Nigeria’s President-elect, Bola Tinubu, in his acceptance speech, says he is ready to be a servant and not a leader and promises to work with Nigerians for the betterment of the coun… Read More

 Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been declared as the winner of Nigeria's presidential elections, beating out two other prominent candidates. It comes three days after criticism by observers for… Read More

In Nigeria there is growing concern at the slow pace of ballot counting after this past weekend's election. Previous votes have been marred by corruption. Al Jazeera's Mohammed Jamjoom rep… Read More

Nigerians are still voting in a national election in a few parts of the country where technical and other glitches prevented voting from taking place as scheduled on Saturday. Vote countin… Read More

Nigeria's electoral commission announced initial results from Saturday's national elections, but a final tally is not due for several days. The presidential vote is expected to be the clos… Read More

 Nigerian presidential candidate Peter Obi has gotten the most votes in the commercial hub of Lagos state, which houses Africa’s biggest city.Obi, of the Labour Party, got 582,454… Read More

Voters in Nigeria are electing a president and members of parliament on Saturday. The race for leadership of the country is said to be too close to call. Amid economic and political turmoi… Read More

16 states in Nigeria asked the Supreme Court to force the central bank to extend by six months the use of old banknotes, whose withdrawal from circulation has caused cash shortages ahead o… Read More

Nigeria’s election commission said Thursday it now has received much of the cash it needs to carry out this weekend’s elections, dismissing concerns that the vote would be postpo… Read More

A Senate candidate from Nigeria's opposition Labour Party has been shot and killed in the southeast. It is the latest incident amid a spate of violence ahead of Saturday's election. Al Jaz… Read More

A senatorial candidate from Nigeria's opposition Labour Party was killed late on Wednesday by unknown gunmen in southeastern Enugu State, a local party official said on Thursday, the latest… Read More

U.S. President Joe Biden called on Thursday for Nigeria's imminent presidential election to be peaceful and transparent, urging candidates and parties to accept the results as announced by t… Read More

The 18 presidential candidates of Nigeria’s general election have signed a second peace accord in the capital, Abuja, in a bid to prevent unrest surrounding the February 25 polls.The p… Read More

Depleted revenue, a high debt profile and a huge budget deficit are among several economic woes that the next Nigerian President will be confronted with. The West African country goes to p… Read More

Nigeria currently has about 1.39 trillion of its currency in circulation, after cutting off an estimated 1.6 trillion in just a month.This 54% drop is part of the Central Bank’s govern… Read More

With elections in Nigeria just days away, recent attacks have caused concern among the public. Outgoing president Muhammadu Buhari had promised to end violence by Boko Haram in the north… Read More

Kaduna, a state in northwestern Nigeria, has selected China’s Ming Xin Mineral Separation Nig Ltd. (MXMS) to build the country’s first lithium-processing plant, with a plan to ma… Read More

At least eight Nigerian police officers have been killed in separate attacks by suspected rebels in the country’s southeast just days ahead of presidential elections.The killings come… Read More

Nigeria's upcoming #election marks nearly a quarter of a century of continuous democracy in Africa's most populous nation. But #insecurity remains a leading issue, with presidential candid… Read More

More than 11,000 Nigerians from the oil-producing Niger Delta have filed a compensation claim against Shell at the London High Court. Some 17 institutions have also joined the suit. It&rsq&hellip…Read More

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday gave approval to the central bank to extend the deadline to turn in old banknotes by another 60 days after cash shortages stoked anger ahead… Read More

The Nigerian military denied claims that it is planning to disrupt the upcoming presidential election after a official from the governing party, the APC, alleged that army generals held a… Read More

People in Nigeria have taken to sleeping outside banks. They want to be among the first in line to get notes from the cash machine once it is loaded up in the morning.A lack of newly designe… Read More

Nigeria's supreme court temporarily suspended a February 10 deadline to stop using old currency notes. The deadline issued by the Central Bank has caused a cash crisis in the country. Nige… Read More

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday signed an executive order setting up a council to facilitate transition to a new president who will emerge after a Feb. 25 election.Buhari, 80… Read More

At a fuel station in Nigeria's commercial capital, tempers flare and harsh words are exchanged as motorists wait in line for hours to fill up their tanks at one of the few outlets with petro… Read More

Nigeria's Supreme Court has temporarily suspended Friday's deadline to stop using old banknotes, which had caused a cash crisis in the country.Many banks have not had enough of the new naira… Read More

The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday that Nigeria should consider extending a deadline to swap old banknotes because of the disruption to trade and payments being caused by a sh… Read More

Nigerian and African top women's footballer, Asisat Oshoala is giving back to her society in a unique way. In 2022, she launched her foundation, which includes a football academy to empowe… Read More

Three states in Nigeria have asked the country's highest court to stop the federal government and central bank from ending the use of old naira currency notes this week, saying this was caus… Read More

At least 15 Nigerian Muslim pilgrims on their way to Senegal were killed when gunmen in Burkina Faso attacked the buses transporting them, Nigeria's presidency said on Monday."President Muha… Read More

 Top Nigerian artists have joined music fans from across the world to congratulate singer Tems on winning a Grammy award.She won the Best Melodic Rap Performance category for her contri… Read More

 Eugene Komboye, a Nigerian artist, is turning discarded plastic flip-flop sandals into colourful portraits in an effort to help clean up the environment in a country where plastic poll… Read More

More than 800 ballot boxes were destroyed by armed gunmen, who attacked an office of the electoral commission in southeast Nigeria on Wednesday.It's the latest in the series of attacks on th… Read More

This Nigerian all-female security crew, known as the Dragon Squad, is breaking stereotypes in a male-dominated industry.Al Jazeera Related story: Female bouncers in Nigeria show their… Read More

Gunmen in central Nigeria have killed eight people, including a divisional police chief, in the latest violence before the February 25 presidential and parliamentary elections, police and a… Read More

Nigeria's finance minister said on Thursday she disagreed with what she called a "surprise" downgrade of the country's credit rating by Moody's, insisting the government was already addressi… Read More

The Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, SpaceX, on Monday announced that it has commenced the operation of Starlink services in Nigeria, the first African country to receive such.Sta… Read More

Frustration is growing among millions of Nigerians who have queued at automated teller machines to collect new naira notes. The Central Bank of Nigeria extended the deadline to swap the ol… Read More

Nigeria's push to replace its paper money with newly designed currency notes has created a shortage of cash, leaving people unable to buy what they need and forcing businesses to close acros… Read More

Nigerian opposition presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar said he is willing to disclose his assets if compelled by law and denied a new corruption allegation against him ahead of the Feb… Read More

Nigeria has reversed its recent decision to ease COVID-related health protocols for travelers, and now demanding proof of vaccination from all people coming into the country. This comes ba… Read More

Africa's largest economy, Nigeria, is in the process of introducing new banknotes for the first time in more than 20 years. The move is an attempt to reignite confidence in the currency, the… Read More

Nigerians, from all parts of the country, will enter this weekend agitated and confused over the currency redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).While banks remain open to rece… Read More

Nigeria's central bank on Thursday launched a domestic card scheme to rival foreign cards like Mastercard and Visa, hoping to enhance its drive to make Africa's biggest economy a cashless so… Read More

Dozens of cattle herders and bystanders were killed and several injured by a suspected bomb blast in Nigeria's north central region, a state government official and spokesperson of the natio… Read More

The United States on Wednesday said it is restricting entry to people "believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, undermining democracy in Nigeria" and their family members ahead of th… Read More

As Nigeria's February elections to elect a new president draw closer, other parts of the country still face security challenges. But despite these security challenges Nigerian authorities… Read More

Airlines in Nigeria said on Monday that flights were being disrupted after ground staff began an indefinite strike to demand higher pay.Air Peace, which has the biggest fleet in Nigeria, and… Read More

 Nigeria opened a billion-dollar Chinese-built deep seaport in Lagos on Monday, which is expected to ease congestion at the country's ports and help it become an African hub for transsh… Read More

Nigeria is facing a huge financial headache caused by challenges in funding its record 49 billion U.S. dollar budget. The government has announced plans to privatize its power generation c… Read More

Around 02:00 GMT in the village of Kafin-Koro (centre), in Niger State, armed individuals locally referred to as "bandits" set fire to the residence of a priest, who was burned to death, sai… Read More

A rule banning unmarried Nigerian police officers from getting pregnant and ensured their sacking if they did, has been scrapped.In a landmark case, a judge ruled the regulation was discrimi… Read More

 For years, Emem Thomas' body drew snarky remarks from slimmer classmates in southern Nigeria that shattered her confidence and natural affability.As teasing and taunts marred her teena… Read More

Nigerian business people are looking forward to resuming regular travel to China, after China relaxed entry and exit conditions. Badamasi Kamaladdin is one of them. He has been buying phon… Read More

Britain’s financial watchdog has fined the UK subsidiary of Nigeria’s Guaranty Trust Bank 7.6 million pounds ($9.3m) for what it says are further failures in its anti-money-laund… Read More

Gunmen armed with AK-47 rifles have abducted more than 30 people from a train station in Nigeria's southern Edo state, the governor's office said on Sunday.The attack is the latest example o… Read More

Almost 1,000 fans of anime converged to Lagos, Nigeria for the second edition of the Eko Anime Festival. Some anime fans performed on stage, and many were cosplaying their favourite charact… Read More

Olubenga Olubanjo, founder of Reeddi, says he’s found a way to provide affordable, reliable and sustainable electricity to all Nigerians. Bloomberg Read More

In Nigeria, an estimated 50 million people have some form of visual disability. Several problems, including lack of access to qualified eye doctors, have impacted effective treatment and j… Read More

Nigeria will ban cash withdrawals from government accounts from March 1.Modibbo Tukur, the chief executive of the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) said the move was part of effort… Read More

Authorities in Nigeria are forecasting oil production will rise to 1.6 million barrels per day by the first quarter of this year. Crude output fell to less than 1 million in mid-2022, the… Read More

 With an early new year gift unveiling, the African streaming platform Showmax, which has given a lot of originals since the beginning of 2022, announced that Nigerians are in for a new… Read More

Nigeria will keep its costly but popular petrol subsidy until mid-2023 and has set aside 3.36 trillion naira ($7.5 bln) to spend on it, Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed said on Wednesday.Africa… Read More

Nigeria is facing unprecedented levels of theft of its main export. The theft of oil is costing the country an estimated $700m a month. And the losses are forcing the government to borrow… Read More

Nigeria, Africa's second largest oil exporter, plans to end the importation of refined petroleum products this year. It also looks to end a long standing, highly costly fuel subsidy. To re… Read More

People in Nigeria are still struggling to find shelter and food, weeks after devastating floods. Thousands of homes were destroyed along river banks, and more than 6,000 people killed. Al… Read More

Durum wheat prices are on the rise in Nigeria as import volumes fall and local demand continues rising. Experts say it is time the country strives to become self sufficient in wheat produc… Read More

 The former Nigerian president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has endorsed Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, as his preferred choice for president in next month’s el… Read More

The Nigerian government said the travel restrictions enforced to curb the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 had no health benefit.The Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disea… Read More

  Former Miss Nigeria, Foluke Abosede Ntukdem, has passed on peacefully in her sleep at her Lagos residence.She died on Monday, 19th of December, 2022, as confirmed by the familyShe was… Read More

The World Bank has said Nigeria's new currency regime will affect small businesses negatively.The Washington lender expressed this concern in its Nigeria Development Update report.CGTN Read More

Nigeria's naira extended losses on the official market on Wednesday to a record low of 461 to the dollar, as trading resumed after the Christmas holiday and the currency weakened to cope wit… Read More

An out-of-control car crashed into a crowd at a large street party in southern Nigeria on Tuesday, leaving seven people dead and many others injured, authorities told The Associated Press.Th… Read More

Hamsatu Izang sings out as she hammers rocks into small gravel pieces for the construction industry. Singing brings her joy and peace, she says, amid this hard manual labour. But when a lo… Read More