KANO,Sept27: A female suicide bomber killed five people when she blew herself up in a mosque in northeast Nigeria, in the latest attack blamed on Boko Haram jihadists, local militiamen
Abuja [Nigeria], August 16: At least 30 people were killed and more than 80 others injured when three female suicide bombers detonated their explosive belts in the town of Mandarari,
Abuja, Feb 23 : The Nigerian state of Kaduna declared a 24-hour curfew after 21 people were killed this week in an area hit by ethnic and religious tension, media
Abuja , Jan 31:A former Muslim preacher, who rose to fame in Nigeria for marrying more than 100 women, has died at the age of 93, media reports said. Mohammed
Laos,Dec24:A senior official at the National Agency For Food and Drugs (Nafdac) said the minister’s Twitter statement “is not their position”. Health Minister Isaac Adewole had tweeted that tests by
Abuja, Dec 10 : Thirty people were killed and 67 injured in the suicide blasts which rocked a crowded market in Madagali district of Nigeria’s northeastern state of Adamawa on
Niger State, Nigeria,Nov17: Between April and May 2015, 28 children in Kawo and Magiro, two remote villages in Niger State, mysteriously died days after suffering symptoms of convulsions, insomnia and hallucinations.
Berlin, Oct 15: Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday dismissed criticism voiced by his wife Aisha Buhari in a BBC interview, saying she belonged in the kitchen and he had
Hanoi,Oct3:Vietnamese authorities say they’ve seized 309 kilograms (682 pounds) of elephant tusks illegally imported from Nigeria. A customs official says the tusks were seized at Hanoi’s airport on Saturday. She
Abuja,Sept20: Two suspected Boko Haram attacks in northeast Nigeria have left up to 14 people dead and three soldiers wounded, the army and local residents said on Monday. On Monday
Abuja August 18:Boko Haram killed five traders in an ambush on a highway in northeast Nigeria that was recently reopened after coming under repeated attack from the Islamist group, a
Abuja August 17:For just more than two years, Nigerian health officials have been celebrating a country free of the paralyzing effects of the poliovirus. The achievement is yet another a
KANO, NIGERIA: Boko Haram today claimed that among the 276 Nigerian schoolgirls, kidnapped by the terrorist group two years ago, some were killed in government air strikes. In a new video
United Nations, August 13: The World Health Organisation has said the confirmation of two new cases of polio in Nigeria was “a disappointing development”, and the cases turned back eradication clock
Lagos , July 21: Nigeria’s military says it has rescued 80 children and women held captive by the Boko Haram extremist group in a remote northeastern village. Army spokesman Colonel
Visakhapatnam, July 1: Suspected terrorists have kidnapped two Indian nationals from Gboko, a town in the Benue state of north-central Nigeria, family members of one of them said in Visakhapatnam