The kidnapped woman who defied Boko Haram
Mass kidnappings of children in Nigeria have been making global headlines recently and this has been hard to watch for a young woman who was...
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Nigeria receives nearly 4 million vaccines from COVAX
Nearly 4 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, the third and largest delivery so far to an African country...
Nigerian governor says 279 kidnapped schoolgirls are freed
Hundreds of Nigerian girls abducted last week from a boarding school in the country’s northwest have been released, a state governor said Tuesday, as the...
Pope prays for liberation of 317 kidnapped Nigerian students
Pope Francis on Sunday decried the kidnapping of 317 students from their boarding school in northwest Nigeria and prayed for the girls’ quick release. Addressing...
Nigeria Official: 42 abducted from Nigerian school 2 weeks ago freed
An official says 42 people including 27 students who were abducted two weeks ago from a school in northern Nigeria have been freed. The chief...
Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls taken in mass abduction
Gunmen abducted 317 girls from a boarding school in northern Nigeria on Friday, police said, the latest in a series of mass kidnappings of students...
Nigeria confirms 1st case of new virus in sub-Saharan Africa
Nigerian authorities on Friday confirmed the first case of the new coronavirus in sub-Saharan Africa as the outbreak spread to a region with some of...
Islamic extremists kill Nigerian pastor, attack his hometown
Islamic militants in Nigeria have killed a Christian pastor who had appealed for help in a video just days earlier, and a human rights activist...
Nigerian ISP’s configuration error disrupted Google services
A Nigerian internet service provider said Tuesday that a configuration error it made during a network upgrade caused a disruption of key Google services, routing...
Nigerian man pleads guilty to taking part in global email scams
A Nigerian man was sentenced to three years and five months in prison by a U.S. judge on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to taking...