The Latest Breaking News from Nigeria

Global environmental stakeholders will converge in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, from 30 November to 12 December 2023 for the UN Climate conference known as COP28. The conference aims to continue negotiations to address the global climate crisis. Nigeria’s main agenda in the conference is climate finance needed for climate…

Professor Emeritus Umaru Shehu, who died on 2 October 2023, was born in Yerwa (Maiduguri), Nigeria, in 1930. Widely regarded as one of the country’s early leaders in public health policy and practice, he was the first public health physician in the northern region and remained active all his life.

The Nigerian star became the first African artist to headline a UK stadium with his sell-out show at the London Stadium in June 2023

Tiktoker Murja Kunya once ran afoul of sharia police in Nigeria's northwest city of Kano, where "hisbah" units enforce Islamic law that runs alongside common law.

Authorities in several West African countries are trying to manage their huge diphtheria outbreaks

Security in Nigeria has degenerated in the last 10 years. Various non-state armed groups have emerged countrywide.

Nigerian public sector workers may earn slightly more than they did years ago, but can afford fewer things than before.

In tonight's edition: Liberians have voted for change. Joseph Boakai has been declared the country's new president-elect with 50.64% of the vote. Also, with one month to go before general elections in DR Congo, President Felix Tshisekedi is gearing up to run against more than 20 candidates. Finally, students are…

It's Art Month in Nigeria — and a highlight is the celebration of art that is Art X, a wide-ranging fair that highlights "Black portraiture" as well as other creations from the continent.

The former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria has been charged with procurement fraud

Through the Initiative Global Gateway Program, EU aims at enhancing infrastructure and digital economy to partner nations.