The Latest Breaking News from Nigeria

The Nigeria international's positional versatility is one of his calling cards and will likely challenge for multiple roles at any next club.

Chima Williams was recognised for his role in helping oil communities win a 13-year-old case against Shell at The Hague.

There has been an outbreak of monkeypox cases in a number of countries that are not endemic for the virus. Monkeypox is caused by an orthopoxvirus that is closely related to the virus that caused smallpox. Monkeypox is an animal virus that occasionally infects humans after they are bitten or…

Nigeria’s coastal areas are known to present environmental hazards and risks. Oil exploration and exploitation is one source of these hazards. Oil spillage, gas flaring, air and water pollution and agricultural land contamination are serious problems in the region, with implications for human and environmental health.

Cases of the rare infectious disease have suddenly started to spread across the globe in recent weeks

At least 50 people were killed by militants on Sunday around the town of Rann in Nigeria's Borno state, in the country's northeastern tip near the border with Cameroon, witnesses told Reuters by phone on Monday.

Significant proportions of weapons and arms seized from Islamist insurgents in Niger came from West African state stockpiles, suggesting authorities are struggling to secure arms stores in the region, a report said on Monday.

The Anambra state governor has put up a 10 million naira ($24,000) reward for information on the killers.

The first case of monkeypox in the current outbreak was reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) on May 7. The person in question had recently returned to the UK from Nigeria, where they are believed to have contracted the infection. Since then, further cases have been reported in over…

The man's body was found on the tarmac of Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria - with some theories suggesting he may have fallen from the wheel-well of a departing aircraft

Adoption rates of the eNaira, Africa’s first official digital currency, have been low since its introduction in October.