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Almost 100 people became citizens at Lake Macquarie.

American cryptocurrency executive Tigran Gambaryan released from Nigerian detention after money laundering trial. Nigeria's crypto economy and challenges w...

Lagos is Nigeria’s economic powerhouse, but it has some of the worst slums in the country.

Football is a game of passion, and passions can become particularly inflamed when the sport represents larger political struggles. In Nigeria in 1977, an Africa-wide football contest fuelled the ethnic rivalry between the Yoruba and the Igbo people to the point that the military had to intervene. The game was…

Flight comes as news emerges of plan to send asylum seekers who arrive on Chagos Islands to British territory of Saint Helena

Survivors and relatives try to find peace after 170 mostly young people died after a tanker exploded in Jigawa State.

Exclusive: More than 100 nurses write to Wes Streeting after being accused of cheating in tests to practise in UK

Nurse says she has lost ‘my name, my integrity’ after being accused of using proxy to sit tests to work in Britain

Some 79 countries around the world continue to enforce blasphemy laws. And in places such as Afghanistan, Brunei, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, violation of these measures can result in a death penalty.