Nigeria

Fresh explosions and gunfire early Tuesday rocked an area near a police station in the Nigerian city of Kano, where…

Gun and bomb attacks by Islamist insurgents in the northern Nigerian city of Kano last week killed at least 178…

Nigerian unions ended a week-old nationwide strike Monday hours after the president climbed down on a petrol price hike, while…

Protesters gathered in Nigeria's main cities on Monday and fires were set on a road in the economic capital Lagos…

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said on Sunday that the violence blamed on Islamist group Boko Haram was worse than the…

LAGOS — An influential body grouping Nigeria's Catholic bishops urged President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday to hire foreign crime experts…

LAGOS, Nigeria — An oil spill near the coast of Nigeria is likely the worst to hit those waters in…

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Wiping grease onto his t-shirt outside his bicycle repair shack, Baba Gana points to a bomb blast…

The latest deadly attacks by an Islamist sect in northern Nigeria, including multiple suicide bombings, point to the group's growing…

DAMATURU, Nigeria — Residents of a northeastern Nigerian city were marking the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha amid fears and…