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More than 770 people have been killed in a spate of Boko Haram attacks in Western Africa and seem to be growing more violent.
The lions that roam Africa have lost as much as 75% of their habitat as their population dwindles and humans overtake their land.
The suicide car bombing that killed at least 38 people in Nigeria has claimed victims across religious and ethnic lines, putting everyone at risk.
A lawsuit has been brought against Nigeria’s president for using armed soldiers and tanks to stop a protest in the city against high petrol prices.
Bombs have exploded at two military bases in a central Nigerian city at the heart of ethnic and religious unrest in Africa’s most populous nation.
A crowd of youths have stormed a bombed Nigeria police station, vandalising property and warning that police officers returning would be killed.
The coordinated attack in Nigeria’s second largest city by the radical Islamist sect known as Boko Haram has shown its metamorphosis.
Nationwide protests over fuel prices in Nigeria have ended, but concern was raised over government’s decision to deploy soldiers to the streets.
As Nigeria’s fuel strike entered its third day, the country’s government has warned that the crippling protests could result in anarchy.
Flaming tyres and debris has signalled the danger of spiralling violence in Nigeria as protests over fuel subsidies continued for a second day.
Nigeria has been crippled by a nationwide strike as the public expressed anger at rising fuel prices and corruption in government.
A faulty pipe from an offshore oil field run by Royal Dutch Shell PLC near Nigeria’s coast spewed crude oil into the ocean for as much as 25 hours.
Nigeria has voted to criminalise gay marriages — instituting prison terms of more than a decade for violations — which has been widely supported.
The US says Boko Haram could attack three luxury hotels in Abuja after a report that more than 100 people have been killed in Nigeria since Friday.
Police in Nigeria raided a newspaper office and arrested six reporters for the publication of a letter from the former president to Goodluck Jonathan.
In the grainy video, a Nigerian woman repeatedly asks her attackers to kill her as they take turns raping her at a university dormitory.
Whole sections of towns are burned out, the smell of rot is in the air, and people are escaping with whatever they can carry.
The body of late president Umaru Yar’Adua is in an unmarked grave, buried in the sandy soil along with many voters’ hopes of a Muslim candidate.
The violence over the past two weeks highlights the tensions between Nigeria’s two major faiths — Christians and Muslims.
Muslim extremists may have planted the bomb that exploded at an army barracks in Nigeria’s capital, the country’s president said on Saturday.
