The Latest Breaking News from Nigeria

Mohamed Salah confirms when he will leave Liverpool after Egypt talks over early AFCON release

Salah is set to miss Egypt’s pre-tournament friendly against Nigeria

Evening Standard · Dec 8, 2025

Organ-harvesting operation in hotel and mortuary shut down after more than 100 bodies were discovered

A manhunt is underway after authorities in Nigeria raided a property and made the grim discovery.

We Got This Covered · Dec 8, 2025

Benin coup leader's location and fate of hostages unknown after failed takeover

The apparent leader of a failed coup in Benin is on the run and the fate of hostages remains unclear a day after a group of soldiers attempted to overthrow the government of the West African nation

The Independent UK · Dec 8, 2025

Gillian Hopwood obituary

Architect who with her husband, John Godwin, designed more than 1,000 modernist buildings in post-independence Nigeria

The Guardian - UK · Dec 5, 2025

William Troost-Ekong exclusive: Nigeria captain reveals why is he retiring before AFCON

Ex-Watford defender has called time on his Super Eagles career ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations

Evening Standard · Dec 4, 2025

Nigeria bombshell as captain William Troost-Ekong retires from internationals before AFCON

Super Eagles lose influential figure ahead of Africa Cup of Nations this month

Evening Standard · Dec 4, 2025

God in Nigeria: the country’s novelists help us understand the complexity of Christianity

In African literature, Christianity has usually been shown as a foreign religion brought to the continent by European missionaries and colonisers. But in the past few decades, Nigeria’s writers have dealt with it in a far more complex way as Christianity is rooted in, and transformed by, local realities, ranging…

The Conversation · Dec 4, 2025

The US will restrict visas for Nigerians and their families involved in violence against Christians

The State Department says the United States will restrict visas for Nigerians and their families involved in mass killings and violence against Christians in the West African country

The Independent UK · Dec 3, 2025

‘He asked me what I’d done sexually with a woman’: how Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor turned her asylum grilling into a film

The rising star has made her debut film, Dreamers, a semi-autobiographical love story set in an immigration detention centre. She talks about fleeing persecution in Nigeria – and what she learned from French new wave

The Guardian - UK · Dec 2, 2025

Tolu Coker: the London-Nigerian designer everybody’s talking about

Everybody from Little Simz to Tyla are wearing her designs

Evening Standard · Dec 2, 2025