The arrest of a middle-aged drug peddler in an internally displaced persons’ camp in Dikwa, Borno State has become a source of worry to the Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, officials said. Baba Haruna, 48, was nabbed by agents of the drug agency while selling illicit drugs, including c...

Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said the unbundling of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation was part of strategies aimed at repositioning the country’s oil and gas sector, and announced a daily crude oil production target of 2.8 million barrels per day. The ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that terrorism does not respect territorial boundaries as he condemned Sunday’s terrorist attack on the Grand Bassam Resort in Cote D’Ivoire. In a telephone call to President Alassane Ouattara after the attack, President Buhari in a statement by his special adv...

Trois membres d'une milice locale engagés dans la lutte contre Boko Haram ont été tués par l'explosion d'une mine au passage de leur véhicule, qui a blessé sept autres personnes, dans le nord-est du Nigeria, ont rapporté des habitants mardi. Les miliciens, qui provenaient du village de Chul, dans...

COTONOU, March 15 (Reuters) - Benin will deploy 150 troops next month to assist a regional task force battling Islamist militant group Boko Haram, a statement from the task force said on Tuesday. Nigeria-based Boko Haram has survived attempts by African armies to destroy it and bands of militants...

By Ulf Laessing MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, March 15 (Reuters) - A Nigerian government push to strangle the Boko Haram insurgency has shut down the cattle trade that sustained the city of Maiduguri, leaving many residents with no livelihood, including many of the two million people displaced by the war. ...

DW reporters, Jan-Philipp Scholz and Adrian Kriesch, follow the dangerous journey of human traffickers from Nigeria to Italy. They discover how young Nigerian women end up on Italian streets as sex slaves.

Kano, Nigeria | AFP | Sunday 3/13/2016 - 04:05 GMT by Aminu ABUBAKAR The annual rains are approaching in northeast Nigeria but with farmers having fled the Boko Haram conflict and their fields fallow, it's feared another planting season will come and go. "If this crop season is missed, the ...

Quatre ans après l'éclatement du conflit, trois ans après la reprise du Nord, l'armée malienne peine à renaître. Face à un ennemi aux mille visages qui continue de semer la terreur, la présence des forces étrangères est, plus que jamais, indispensable à la survie d'un État sous tutelle sécuritaire. ...

BY MOHAMMED ISMAIL — Mar 16, 2016 5:19 am | Leave a comment No fewer than 56,000 Nigerians currently taken refuge in Cameroon Republic will soon be repatriated to Nigeria through Adamawa State, Governor Muhammadu Ummaru Jibrilla stated yesterday. The governor who dropped the hint while hostin...