Muhammadu Buhari, the incumbent president of Nigeria, was proclaimed the winner of the presidential elections in the African country late last night. The Electoral Commission confirmed this.
In the event of election violence in Nigeria on Sunday, at least 39 people were killed. This is reported by several human rights organizations.
The Islamic terror organization Boko Haram has killed at least sixty people in an attack in the Nigerian state Borno. This is what the human rights organization Amnesty International reports, that...
A Nigerian zoo gets the wind from the front after a visitor on Twitter shared a photo of an Arabian hump camel, better known as a dromedary, which was barely recognizable.
'When I go out, the girls are around me, pleading to take them to Europe. I refuse. I am afraid to die, 'says 42-year-old Patience, who smuggled Nigerian girls to Europe for almost twenty years.
An employee of the International Red Cross was murdered in Nigeria, half a year after she and two other colleagues had been kidnapped by an armed group. The Red Cross announced on Monday that the murdered 25-year-old woman worked as an obstetrician at the aid organization.
Certainly 35 people were killed in Nigeria on Monday because a tank truck exploded with fuel and a fire was created. In addition, more than a hundred people have been injured. That is what the national emergency response service said.
A group of at least 23 travelers was kidnapped in the northwest of Nigeria on Friday by armed men. Among the abductees is a mother with her baby and another child. The press agency PRNigeria has announced this.
Thousands of women and girls in Nigeria have been raped by members of the government army. This is reported by Amnesty International in the report They betrayed us.
The Islamic terror organization Boko Haram has once again committed suicide attacks in Maiduguri, the largest city in the northeast of Nigeria. Five people blew up and took four civilians into death.
At least seventeen people were killed by an attack on a Catholic church in Nigeria. Armed nomads stormed the house of prayer and opened fire, local authorities in the southern state of Benue say.
The Nigerian police found the ceremonial scepter that was stolen by three invaders from the senate on Wednesday. The thieves had left the scepter under a viaduct in the Abuja chapter.
Nigeria has been negotiating behind the scenes with terrorist Boko Haram over a file for some time. The goal is a permanent truce. The Minister for Information said that Sunday.
Some of the 110 girls who were kidnapped from a school in Nigerian Dapchi are back in their hometown. Witnesses report that the girls were probably brought back Wednesday by militants from terror group Boko Haram.
After an attack on a school in Nigeria by suspected members of Boko Haram, 110 girls were missing. That said the Ministry of Information Sunday. Terror group Boko Haram attacked the school in Dapchi in the northeastern state of Yobe on Monday.
The Nigerian army has rescued 76 schoolgirls from the hands of the Islamic terror organization Boko Haram. Also, the bodies of two girls were found, three parents and a local driver have informed. At least thirteen girls are still missing.
The movement has been declared dead by the Nigerian government several times, but Boko Haram's ghost has resurrected. With the abduction of dozens of schoolgirls, the Islamic terrorist group has once again hit hard and there is a fear of a new 'Chibok', the abduction of more than 270 schoolgirls from that eponymous city that lead to worldwide protests and the movement, also known thanks to Michelle Obama. BringBackOurGirls led.
A Nigerian plane has lost a door just after landing, which according to passengers was already 'the whole flight' loose. The airline company has a dubious past with a horrible crash six years ago, but refuses to confess guilt.
A suicide attack at a mosque in the Nigerian city of Mubi has killed at least fifty people. According to the police, a teenager blew himself up during the morning prayer.
The situation in the northeastern Nigeria, caused by terrorist group Boko Haram, threatens to turn out to be a humanitarian crisis of unprecedented magnitude. About 5.2 million people are fully dependent on food aid.
UNICEF is extremely concerned about the increasing use of children as a human bomb in northeastern Nigeria. The number of suicide bombings is four times higher this year than in 2016. The United Nations Children's Rights Organization in 2017 had 83 cases of children as a bomb.
Suicide terrorists of the terrorist organization Boko Haram appear to be largely women and children. This is evidenced by a report released by researchers from the United States Terrorism Center with Yale University.
More than three years after their kidnapping by the Islamic terrorist organization Boko Haram, 82 have recently been released to reunite schoolgirls from Chibok with their family. The parents were allowed to close their daughters in the Nigerian capital Abuja on Saturday. That caused emotional images. A confident president of President Muhammadu Buhari put a short video clip of the weather on Twitter.
Nigerian President Buhari met on Sunday the 82 girls who were released by the Islamic terrorist movement Boko Haram. Buhari made his trip to London, where he traveled for medical reasons, especially for the meeting.
The Islamic terrorist movement Boko Haram released 82 girls who were abducted from school in Chibok, northern Nigeria, on Saturday. That said Nigerian government officials.
Nigeria is facing a huge shortage of medicines to combat an outbreak of meningococcal. There are 282 dead and probably another two thousand sick, according to the head of the Nigerian Center for Disease local media. Most victims are five to 14 years.
The Nigerian authorities to airport capital Abuja closing six weeks. The runway finds danger in such bad condition that airline to suspend flights to the airport.
Two planes full of bills. That is the extreme balance of a major corruption case in Nigeria. A bank manager has spilled the beans on the matter, as far as money is concerned that investigators took less than ten days to count all ballots.
The Nigerian army claims to have 85 prisoners freed from the hands of terrorist group Boko Haram. An army spokesman said Sunday that it mostly concerns women and children.
Nigeria will 'redouble' its efforts to the girls and women who were abducted in 2014 in the village Chibok to retrieve Boko Haram fighters. That said Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday.
