Tag: Anti-intellectualism

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse at camps where women and children are ...

Buhari orders probe of sexual and rights abuses in IDPs camps A 17-year-old girl has told of how a policeman ...

Women and girls in several camps in the Nigerian town of Maiduguri are being sexually abused by officials, a rights ...

In a story Oct. 23 about 83 missing Nigerian soldiers, The Associated Press erroneously quoted senior military officers. The story ...

Muslim Fulani herdsmen attacked villagers in the village of Godogodo, Nigeria on October 15 with guns and machetes, burning down ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Some 83 Nigerian soldiers are missing in action since Boko Haram Islamic extremists attacked a remote ...

The BBC Hausa Service has announced the winner of its first short-story competition aimed at women writers. Aisha Muhammad Sabitu's ...

Twenty-one schoolgirls who had been kidnapped by the Islamist group Boko Haram in the Nigerian town of Chibok have been ...

In the early hours of Thursday morning, 21 of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls were released by their Boko Haram captors ...

Twenty-one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram have been freed, a senior Nigerian government official has told the ...

The 501 army recruits who were dismissed by the Ghana Armed Forces in 2015 are free to decide wherever they ...

Some 501 sacked Army recruits have threatened to join terrorist groups like ISIS or Boko Haram after what they say ...

Maroua (Cameroon) (AFP) - With his finger on the trigger, ready to fire his weapon in an instant, a policeman ...

N'Djamena (AFP) - Nigeria's Boko Haram jihadists have killed four Chadian soldiers in a cross-border raid in the volatile Lake ...

Islamic extremists have killed eight soldiers and wounded 17 in two attacks in northeastern Nigeria, the country's military said Monday. ...

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has said his government is not ready to negotiate with Boko Haram until it is clear ...

Ghana’s President, John Dramani Mahama, has told western leaders that shutting their doors to migrants who seek entry into their ...

Thirty-eight Boko Haram Islamist fighters have been killed during military search operations carried out by Niger and Chad troops in ...

A few days before President Buhari showed up in Edo state to campaign for his party’s governorship candidate in the ...

Hundreds of internally displaced people in northern Nigeria are returning home to the villages and towns they fled to escape ...