Chocolate City Boss Maikori Slumps At Public Event
Chocolate City boss, Audu Maikori, on Tuesday collapsed at the 2017 Women in Management, Business and Public Service (WIMBIZ) holding ...
Tag: Boko Haram
Nigerian Court Convicts Former Governor For Graft
A Nigerian former state governor was on Monday found guilty and sentenced to five years in jail for corruption, marking ...
Nigerian Women Displaced By Boko Haram Hold Protest
Thousands of Nigerian women forced from their homes by Boko Haram jihadists held a protest on Sunday to demand better ...
UN Envoys Plan Paris Conference To Aid Chad
UN envoys on a mission to the Lake Chad region said Saturday that a conference would soon be held in ...
Army Loses 31 Soldiers To Boko Haram In One Month
Nigerian Army has revealed that 28 of its men were killed The Nigerian Army has revealed that 28 of its ...
Multiple Blasts Rock Nigerian City
Multiple explosions rocked the outskirts of Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri early Friday, killing three suicide bombers, the emergency service ...
Telecom Giant MTN Posts First Ever Loss
South African telecoms giant MTN said Thursday that it made a $200 million loss in 2016 -- the company's first ...
UN Security Council Visit To Draw Attention To Lake Chad Crisis
UN Security Council envoys on Thursday travel to Africa's Lake Chad region, where famine, the Boko Haram insurgency, climate change ...
Thousands Flee Boko Haram Attacks Around Nigeria’s Chibok
Some 7,000 people have fled from villages around the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok because of Boko Haram attacks, the ...
France Sends Backup To Niger After 16 Troops Killed
France is to send a contingent of counterterror forces to help the army in Niger after militants ambushed a military ...
Boko Haram Spokesperson Killed After Plot To Oust Leader
The leader of Boko Haram’s main faction, Abubakar Shekau, has admitted killing the group’s purported spokesperson over an apparent plot ...
Boko Haram Attack Kills Seven In Nigeria
At least seven soldiers were killed in a Boko Haram attack on military positions in northeast Nigeria, a civilian vigilante ...
Donors Pledge $672 Mn In Aid For Lake Chad Region
Donor countries meeting in Oslo on Friday pledged $672 million (634 million euros) in emergency aid for people threatened by ...
Boko Haram Leader Killed Spokesman Over ‘leadership Plot’
The leader of Boko Haram's main faction, Abubakar Shekau, has admitted killing the group's purported spokesman over an apparent plot ...
‘Terrorist Attack’ Kills 15 Soldiers In Niger
Fifteen soldiers were killed and 19 wounded in a attack by "terrorist elements" in western Niger, authorities said Thursday. "A ...
World Donors Gather In Oslo To Tackle Nigeria Famine
UN aid agencies and donor countries gathered in Oslo Thursday for a two-day meeting to raise emergency aid for millions ...
‘Africa’s Most Acute Crisis’
An international conference in Oslo on Friday aims to raise $1.5 billion (1.4 billion euros) to help people affected by ...
Cameroon ‘expels’ Nigerians
Most of the refugees are at the Minawao camp in north-eastern Cameroon Cameroon has expelled 517 Nigerians, including 313 asylum ...
Why Does A Nigerian Muslim Leader Want To Restrict Polygamy?
Polygamy is widely accepted all over Nigeria but one of the country's most prominent Muslim leaders is trying to ban ...
Helping the Boko Haram Displaced
Not a single car remains in the town of Dikwa in northeast Nigeria and there's no way to communicate to ...