Kano - Healthcare services have collapsed in the northern part of Nigeria's Borno state as doctors, nurses and pharmacists flee for their lives from brutal violence unleashed by Islamist Boko Haram militants.Medical professionals say health services in the re...

Lagos - It's a common enough scenario in Nigeria and across Africa: how to get rid of pesky mosquitoes whose buzzing disturbs sleep and whose bites can carry malaria and other diseases.Two Nigerian start-ups have tapped this -- and other aspects and quirks of ...

Maiduguri - At least 74 people have been killed in three weekend attacks in Nigeria's restive northeast, the epicentre of the Boko Haram insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives since 2009, police and residents said Sunday.

Maiduguri - At least 35 people were killed following two explosions in a crowded neighbourhood of Nigeria's restless northeastern city of Maiduguri, a stronghold of Boko Haram Islamists, police said Sunday."We are still counting. So far we have counted 35 bodies. ...

Lagos - Nigeria has lined up a relative unknown to head its central bank after the outspoken former governor was suspended, causing shockwaves in Africa's second-largest economy and markets to wobble.

Kano - Suspected Boko Haram gunmen killed at least 32 people in three separate attacks in northeast Nigeria, including at a Christian theological college, a local government official and residents said on Thursday.The chairman of Madagali local government dis...

Kano - Suspected Boko Haram Islamists killed 43 people in an attack on secondary school students as they slept in the latest school massacre to hit Nigeria's troubled northeast.Nigeria meanwhile issued an appeal to France and Abuja's Francophone neighbours, e...

Kano - Suspected Boko Haram Islamists on Tuesday opened fire on secondary school students as they slept in a dormitory in Nigeria's troubled northeastern Yobe state, the military said.Casualty figures from the attack in the town of Buni Yadi, roughly 60 kilom...

Kano - An attack by scores of Boko Haram Islamists in the northeast Nigeria town of Bama has killed 60 people and caused massive destruction to public building, police told AFP Thursday."We are collating the figures and the death toll has risen to 60 from the...

Abuja - Nigeria's president suspended central bank governor Lamido Sanusi on Thursday for alleged financial recklessness after Sanusi accused the state oil company of misappropriating $20 billion (14.5 billion euros) of public funds.

Kano - Gunmen suspected of being Boko Haram Islamists have reportedly killed dozens of people, mostly Christians, in a village in northeast Nigeria, an official and local residents said on Sunday."They killed many, many people in the attack late on Saturday. ...

Abuja - An angry anti-gay mob rampaged through Nigeria's capital, dragging men suspected of being homosexuals from their homes and brutally beating them with wooden clubs and iron bars.

According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), over 20 million people in the Sahel region are at risk of hunger and will need humanitarian assistance in 2014, around 8.7 million more than in 2013.

Abuja - General Electric has signed a deal with a Nigerian bank to invest $350 million in Nigeria's ailing power sector, the country's trade and investment minister said on Friday.

Bauchi - Two Islamic courts in Nigeria have been forced to suspend the trials of 10 men accused of homosexuality because of fears of mob violence, judges and officials have said.

Maiduguri - More than 70 people were killed in two separate attacks in northeast Nigeria, police and state authorities said on Monday, with suspicions falling on the banned Islamist militant group Boko Haram.

Lagos - All Nigerian entrepreneur Taofick Okoya wanted to do was buy his young niece a black doll for her birthday. But when he arrived at a store in Lagos, Nigeria, he ran into a problem.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan sacked his entire military leadership. He removed the chiefs of defense, army, navy and air force and named their successors without explanation.

Nigerian author Okechukwu Ofili has criticized what he called 'the commercialization of Nigerian churches' who tell members to bring 10 percent of their monthly income as tithes.

Two African nations have recently introduced tough criminal sanctions for the practice of male homosexuality. Should we care?