Gunmen have killed at least 40 people, mostly students, at the College of Agriculture in Yobe state, Nigeria.
Nigeria’s sharp decline in inflation may be caused by a new 50% cash reserve requirement on public sector deposits held at commercial banks.
There are huge returns to be had in Nigeria where around 16-million homes are needed just to meet current demand.
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has sacked nine ministers in his first major Cabinet reshuffle in a bid to keep party support.
Shell has begun talks with Nigeria’s Bodo community on compensation and a cleanup after the largest loss of a mangrove habitat caused by oil spills.
An art investment boom is under way in Nigeria as local and foreign collectors flock to buy traditional work.
Deep-rooted traditions and conservative religious beliefs continue to ruin the lives of young girls in Nigeria.
Nigeria will see massive growth as Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote took a $3.3-billion loan that will turn the country into an oil exporter.
Seven Nigerian ruling party governors and a former presidential candidate formed a splinter group opposed to President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday.
Nobel prize winning author Nadine Gordimer has celebrated the legacy of the late writer Chinua Achebe at the M&G Literary festival.
“I just got back” is a phrase that allegedly peppers the conversations of Nigerians who have returned home to live and work.
Football body Fifa has received a complaint of racism against Stephen Keshi after he said a rival was "a white dude" who didn’t know about Africa.
Madinat Aliyu is the only female car-washer in the Muslim north, where sharia law often limits the types of jobs women do.
Bafana coach Gordon Igesund has insisted the SA team was neither “bulldozed nor bullied” by Nigeria during the Nelson Mandela Challenge.
Bafana Bafana are determined to use Wednesday’s Nelson Mandela Challenge match against Nigeria as a confidence builder, says midfielder Dean Furman.
Boko Haram insurgents have killed 41 pupils in an attack on a school in Nigeria’s Yobe state.
There is a growing appetite for well-made Nigerian films, but securing financing from a bank is near impossible.
Suspected Islamist extremists have stormed a mosque and shot dead 44 worshippers and 12 others in a nearby village in Nigeria, say officials.
Bafana Bafana coach Gordon Igesund insists he rewarded players purely on performance and form after naming a strong 28-man squad.
Plans to set up automotive manufacturing plants could prove beneficial to both countries.
Suspected members of Islamist group Boko Haram shot dead more than 20 civilians when a vigilante group attacked them in the northern Borno state.
Nigeria has survived a fright in Ivory Coast to book a place at the African Nations Championship finals for the first time.
SA inflation figures, indicators of growth in Europe and China, US corporate earnings reports and elections in Japan will make for a busy week.
Nigeria’s Yobe state has ordered the closure of all secondary schools after a massacre that saw suspected Islamist extremists kill 42 people.
Nigeria has beaten Côte d’Ivoire 4-1 while Morocco shocked title-holders Tunisia this weekend in 2014 African Nations Championship qualifiers.
Suspected Islamist gunmen killed 27 students and a teacher in a boarding school in the north-east Nigerian town of Potiskum on Saturday.
Raids by gunmen in central Nigeria and gun battles between soldiers and attackers have killed at least 48 people and left dozens of homes burnt.
Gross domestic product is a powerful political tool — but it hides more than it reveals.
Nigeria has hanged four criminals in its first known executions since 2006, and a rights group is trying to keep a fifth, Thankgod Ebhos, alive.
Nigeria’s population is expected to surpass that of the United States by 2050, according to new United Nations projections.
The rebel group has driven 19 000 rice farmers from their land, while a military crackdown is preventing thousands more from working their fields.
President Goodluck Jonathan took a gamble when he launched an offensive on Boko Haram’s attempt to establish an Islamic state in northern Nigeria.