Traditional institutions are increasingly becoming tools of political power in the country
Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, the director general of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, is up for the challenge
Kano’s mud walls date back to the 11th century and have come to define it as an ancient city state, attracting archaeologists’ attention
Numerous men suspected of being homosexual were arrested and have not yet had a court hearing.
At least 41 people have died in a suicide car bomb attack in Kano, northern Nigeria’s busiest commercial centre.
Attackers armed with bombs and guns have opened fire at outdoor church services at a Nigerian university on Sunday, killing around 20 people.
The Islamist group may have jihadist overtones, but its rise and power lies in Nigeria’s failure to deliver to its citizens adequately.
Islamist group Boko Haram have been accused of being suspects in the latest attacks on government buildings in the north of Nigeria.
The kidnapped father of Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel was freed after detectives traced him to a city in north Nigeria and arrested his abductors.
Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi, a 24-year-old physics undergraduate in northern Nigeria, takes old cars and motorbikes to pieces in the back yard at home and builds his own…
A court case brought by Nigeria against Pfizer resumes on Tuesday with the United States drug maker saying it answered a call for help to save the lives of African children…
Nigerian troops killed many Islamic militants in a three-hour battle in the northern city of Kano on Wednesday, an army commander said. Troops surrounded the militants in the…
A dusk-to-dawn curfew was imposed on Monday on Muslim-dominated northern Nigeria’s largest state of Kano as protests greeted a delay in the results of weekend polls. Meanwhile,…
Gunmen shot dead a radical Muslim cleric in his mosque and fired on the congregation, killing two more people, in the northern Nigerian city of Kano on Friday, witnesses said.…
An angry mob of Muslim students in northern Nigeria beat their teacher to death on Wednesday for allegedly desecrating the Qur’an, police and witnesses said. Her attackers…
Bird flu has reappeared, after an eight-month lull, on poultry farms in a fourth state in northern Nigeria, officials said on Friday. ”In the past one week we culled 5 000…
A suspected fresh outbreak of avian influenza has been reported in northern Nigeria’s Katsina State with more than 5Â 000 birds infected, the agriculture commissioner said on…
A high court in northern Nigeria’s Adamawa state on Tuesday sentenced the leader of an unorthodox and militant Islamic sect on the run for 22 years to death by hanging, state-run…
All but one of 40 people feared to have drowned in torrential flooding in northern Nigeria’s Zamfara state have been found alive and well, officials said on Monday. The local…
Locusts have invaded farms in Nigeria, destroying crops as farmers prepare for harvest, officials said on Friday. Diyos Auta, state agriculture commissioner for Taraba, in the…
