Nigeria is to welcome the African continent for the Women's Volleyball Club Championship, with over 20 countries expected to compete for honors from April 1 to 14 in Abuja.

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accused the bloc of having double standards in punishing their military juntas. Negotiations ...

Press Release - With an estimated 2.1 million children in Nigeria and almost one million in Ethiopia[1] classed as 'zero dose', having never received a routine vaccination, the Save the Children ...

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A Nigerian official says at least 40 farmers were killed by militants in a weekend attack in northeastern Borno state ...

Residents in eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma, woke up on Monday morning uncertain about who is in control of the city, which Rwanda-backed rebels claimed to have captured ...

INS Tushil, the Indian Navy’s latest guided missile stealth frigate, has arrived in Lagos, Nigeria, while on her maiden ...

ABUJA, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Nigeria plans to rebase its gross domestic product and inflation data by the end of the month to capture changes in certain sectors of the economy and to reflect current ...

France’s enduring strategy to destabilise the Sahel is manifesting through new and suspicious demonstrations allegedly ...

The death toll from a gasoline tanker explosion in north-central Nigeria has risen to 86, the country’s emergency response agency said on Sunday. The blast happened in the early hours of ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The United States announced Friday that it would be returning $52.88 million in seized assets to Nigeria as part of a yearslong corruption probe against former oil minister ...

DAKAR, Senegal — At least 40 farmers were killed in an attack by Islamic militants in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, a government official said Monday. The attack Sunday was suspected to ...