Nigeria has launched military campaigns against bandits in the northwest before and even sought amnesty deals to coax them to abandon hideouts deep in the region’s vast forests.

Nigeria’s opposition accused the government of detaining its activists and stuffing ballot boxes in the north on Friday, a day before a presidential election in Africa’s most…

The prosecution of two Nigerian men who face the death penalty after being accused of sodomy suffered a setback on Thursday when a second police witness said that he had not…

A Nigerian Islamic court granted bail on Wednesday to two alleged homosexuals who face the death penalty and whose case has once more drawn international attention to their…

Two Nigerian men appeared in court on Wednesday charged with committing sodomy and could now face being stoned to death after they were caught together in a toilet in this…

A Nigerian Islamic appeal court on Thursday cleared single mother Amina Lawal of adultery, for which she had been sentenced to be stoned to death. If the sentence had been…

Baby in her arms, a single mother condemned by an Islamic court to death by stoning appeared at a courthouse in northern Nigeria on Wednesday for an appeal of a sentence that has…

An Islamic court in northern Nigeria on Tuesday adjourned, for the second time, an appeal hearing against the sentence to death by stoning of mother of three, Amina Lawal.

A Nigerian Islamic court postponed the start of mother-of-three Amina Lawal’s appeal against being stoned to death at a brief hearing here on Tuesday.