The killers, as they so often do, descended under cover of darkness, the sound of their arrival masked by falling rain. Most residents of Yelewata, a Christian farming village in central Nigeria’s Benue state,

When Lawan Mustafa's wife, nine months pregnant, woke up bleeding in the middle of the night, she looked at her husband and warned him: don't go to the hospital.His wife, Ummanim, eventually made it to the hospital,

President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the U.S. will do everything it can to help Nigeria find nearly 300 teenage girls missing since they were kidnapped from school three weeks ago by an Islamist extremist group that has threatened to sell them.

"If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, “guns-a-blazing,” to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities," he wrote in a post on Truth Social.

Sanni's latest achievement at GAFCSC is a resounding statement about Nigeria’s growing influence in regional military excellence and the NAF’s commitment to gender inclusion and elite talent development. Nigeria’s 1st female fighter pilot bags top ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. GENEVA – Gains made by a military campaign against Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria have ...

Nigeria’s July 29, 1966, counter-coup stands as one of the most violent political upheavals in African history. Orchestrated by northern military officers, the revolt not only claimed the lives of top military leaders, including the Head of State ...